<p>Language and Symbolic Power</p>

Edited and Introduced by John B. Thompson

Translated by Gino Raymond and Matthew Adamson

Polity Press

Copyright© General Introduction, Introductions to Parts I and II, chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10: Librairie Artheme Fayard 1982

Copyright© Appendix to Part I, chapters 7, 8, 9, 11: Pierre Bourdieu 1983, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1984

Copyright© Editor's Introduction, John B. Thompson 1991 This English translation copyright ©Polity Press 1991

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bourdieu, Pierre.

(Ce que parler veut dire. English]

Language and symbolic power

/ Pierre Bourdieu : edited and introduced by John B. Thompson : translated by Gino Raymond and Matthew Adamson.

p. cm.

Translation of: Ce que parler veut dire.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0--674-51040-2 (cloth}

ISBN 0--674-51041-0 (paper)

1. Language and languages. 2. Linguistics. I. Thompson, John B.

II. Title.

P106.B6813 1991

400-dc20 90-47099

CIP

<p>Contents</p>

10 Identity and Representation: Elements for a Critical

<p><strong>Language and Symbolic Power</strong></p>

<p>Preface</p>

Most of the material in this volume appeared in French in a book entitled Ce que parler veul dire: I’economie des echanges linguistiques (Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard, 1982). However, this English volume differs in certain respects from the original French book.; two short essays have been left out, and five other pieces have been added. Hence Language and Symbolic Power is to some extent a new volume which does not have a direct counterpart in French. The original French book is itself a collection of essays, some of which are slightly modified versions of articles which had been published previously. Full bibliographical details of each chapter are given below.

1 ‘The Production and Reproduction of Legitimate Language’, written in summer 1980, was originally published as ‘La production et la reproduction de la langue legitime’, in Ce que parler veut dire, pp. 23-58.

2 'Price Formation and the Anticipation of Profits’, written in summer 1980, was originally published as ‘La formation des prix et l’anticipation des profits’, in Ce que parler veut dire, pp. 59-95.

Appendix to Part I, 'Did you say "Popular”?’, was originally published as ‘Vous avez dit "populaire”?’, Acres de la recherche en sciences sociales, 46 (March 1983), pp. 98-105.

3 'Authorized Language: The Social Conditions for the Effectiveness of Ritual Discourse’ was originally published as 'Le langage autorise. Note sur les conditions sociales de I'efficacite du

discours rituel’, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 5-6 (November 1975), pp. 183-90, and reprinted in Ce que parler veut dire, pp. 103-19.

4 ‘Rites of Institution’ (transcript of a lecture given at a conference on ‘Rites of Passage Today’ at Neuchatel in October 1981) was originally published as ‘Les rites d’institution’, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 43 (June 1982), pp. 58-63, and reprinted in Ce que parler veut dire, pp. 121-34.

5 ‘Description and Prescription: The Conditions of Possibility and the Limits of Political Effectiveness’ was originally published as ‘Decrire et prescrire. Note sur les conditions de possibilite et les limites de l’efficacit£ politique’, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 30 (May 1981), pp. 69-74, and reprinted in Ce que parler veut dire, pp. 149-61.