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The Commodification of Language

Heller, Monica·2010·Annual Review of Anthropology
DOI 10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.104951
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Although language can always be analyzed as a commodity, its salience as a resource with exchange value has increased with the growing importance of language in the globalized new economy under the political economic conditions of late capitalism. This review summarizes how and in which ways those conditions have a commodifying effect on language and focuses on contemporary tensions between ideologies and practices of language in the shift from modernity to late modernity. It describes some of these tensions in key sites: tourism, marketing, language teaching, translation, communications (especially call centers), and performance art.

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Authors
Heller, M.
Venue
Annual Review of Anthropology
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Published
2010-10-21
Volume
39
Issue
1
Pages
101-114
ISSN
  • 0084-6570 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-4290
DOI
10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.104951
OpenAlex
W2110174637
Cited by
988
References
78
FWCI
31.68
Type
journal article
Language
en
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