The Discourses of Capitalism

Everyday Economists and the Production of Common Sense

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Christian W. Chun

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Series:

Language, Society and Political Economy

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Since the global economic crisis of 2007–2008, ‘capitalism’ has been the topic of widespread general discussion in both mainstream and social media. In this book, Christian W. Chun examines the discourses of capitalism taken up by people in their responses to a street art installation created by Steve Lambert, entitled Capitalism Works for Me! In doing so, he considers several key questions, including: How do everyday people view and make sense of capitalism and its role in their work and personal lives? What are the discourses they use in their common-sense understandings of the economy to defend or reject capitalism as a system? Chun looks at how dominant discourses in social circulation operate to co-construct and support capitalism, and the accompanying counter-discourses that critique it. This is key reading for advanced students of discourse analysis, language and globalization/politics, media/communication studies, and related areas. A video lecture by the author can be accessed via the Routledge website (www.routledge.com/9781138807105) and the Routledge Language and Communication Portal (www.routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/languageandcommunication).

Author Biography:

Christian W. Chun is Assistant Professor of Culture, Identity, and Language Learning in the Applied Linguistics Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. He is the author of Power and Meaning Making in an EAP Classroom: Engaging with the Everyday (2015).

Release date NZ

April 6th, 2017

Author

Christian W. Chun

Series

Language, Society and Political Economy

Pages

160

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

ISBN-13

9781138807099

Product ID

25781555

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