Monica Heller: 3 books
Language, Capitalism, Colonialism
Toward a Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism. In the process, they map out a critical history of how language serves, and has...
Sustaining the Nation
The Making and Moving of Language and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book is an ethnography of labor mobility and its challenges to the idea of the nation. Using the example of francophone Canada, it examines how social difference-race, ethnicity, language, gender-has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and who must (or can) remain in place in the...
Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods
Studying Language Issues That Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods is a guide to conducting concrete ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects, written by top scholars for students and researchers in social science fields. Adopting a critical perspective focusing on the role of language in the construction of...