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In this book David Block draws on analytical techniques from Critical Discourse Studies to critically investigate truth, truths, the propagation of ignorance and post-truth. Focusing on corrupt discourses and agnotology, he explores the role of anti-intellectualism, emotion and social media in the cultural creation, legitimisation and dissemination of ignorance. While encompassing analysis of discourses on Donald Trump, Brexit, climate change and the Alt-Right, Block furthers our understanding of this global phenomena by providing a revealing analysis of political communications relating to corruption scandals involving the Spanish conservative party. Through an innovative theoretical framework that combines critical discourse and discourse historical approaches with nuanced political analysis, he uncovers the rhetorical means by which esoteric truths and misleading narratives about corruption are created and demonstrates how they become, in their turn, corrupt discourses. This original work offers fresh insights for scholars of Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Politics, Cultural and Communication Studies, and will also appeal to general readers with an interest in political communication and Spanish politics.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 A short history of political economy in sociolinguistics -- Introduction -- Political economy in sociolinguistics -- The 'English divide' -- Language in the workplace -- Economics of language -- Language and tourism -- Critical Discourse Studies (Critical Discourse Analysis) -- Where this is leading -- 2 Political economy: Background and approach -- Introduction -- Why political economy? -- The human dimension -- Marxist political economy and the field of economics -- An alternative to neoclassical economics -- The international dimension -- An ontological and epistemological consideration -- Conclusion -- 3 Neoliberalism: Historical and conceptual considerations -- Introduction -- Neoliberalism as the focus of attention in contemporary political economy -- The rise of neoliberal thought -- The influencers: von Mises, Hayek and Popper -- The rise to power of the MPS spirit -- The neoliberal thought collective and beyond -- Conclusion -- 4 Stratification, inequality and social class -- Introduction -- Stratification -- Inequality -- Social class: Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Veblen -- From Bourdieu to the constellation of dimensions model -- Class as lived experience -- Quantifying and categorizing social class -- Conclusion -- 5 The neoliberal citizen: Conceptualizations and contexts -- Introduction -- The neoliberal citizen -- Rational choice theory (RCT) -- The rise of the entrepreneur and self-branding -- The neoliberal citizen in French as a foreign language textbook -- Entrepreneurs revisited -- the 2013 Spanish law supporting entrepreneurs -- Horizon 2020 -- A neoliberal citizen in the flesh -- Conclusion -- 6 Inequality, class and class warfare: Discourse, ideology and 'truth' -- Introduction -- Inequality, class struggle and class warfare.

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In this short paper, I begin by providing background for inquiry into the division of labour across occupations, examined from an economics of language perspective. I then critically discuss the four papers that compose this special issue on the topic, before closing with three suggestions for factors to bear in mind in future research.

AbstractIdentity has become a key construct in applied linguistics over the past 30 years, as more and more researchers have heeded Norton Peirce's (1995: 12) call for 'a comprehensive theory of social identity that integrates the language learner and the language learning context'. In this article, my aim is to discuss what I see as issues arising in identity research in applied linguistics. I start with a brief consideration of why identity has become so central in applied linguistics, before discussing the poststructuralist model of identity which has been adopted by the vast majority of researchers. I then move to consider three more substantive issues: (1) the potential benefits of a more psychological angle when most language and identity research tends to be predominantly social; (2) the importance of clarifying the interrelationship between individual agency and social structures in language and identity research; and (3) the potential benefits of including a socioeconomic stratification and social class angle in research which tends to prime identity politics (identity inscriptions such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationality and language), over the material conditions of life.ResumenLa identidad se ha convertido en un constructo clave en la lingüística aplicada durante los últimos 30 años, dado que cada vez más investigadores han seguido la llamada de Norton Peirce (1995: 12) en lo que se refiere a 'a comprehensive theory of social identity that integrates the language learner and the language learning context'. En este artículo, mi intención es tratar lo que considero como cuestiones claves en las investigaciones sobre la "identidad" en la lingüística aplicada. Empiezo con una breve reflexión sobre por qué la identidad ha llegado a ser tan importante en la lingüística aplicada, para pasar después a examinar el modelo posestructuralista de la identidad que han adoptado la gran mayoría de los investigadores. En segundo lugar paso a considerar tres cuestiones: (1) los beneficios potenciales de una perspectiva más psicológica en este tipo de investigaciones ya que la mayoría de ellas sobre la lingüística y la identidad tienden a considerar fundamentalmente el aspecto social; (2) lo importante que es clarificar la interrelación entre la agencia individual y la estructura social en las investigaciones sobre lingüística e identidad; y (3) los beneficios potenciales de incorporar la estratificación socio-económica y clase social en investigaciones que tienden a dar prioridad a las políticas identitarias (inscripciones de la identidad como la raza, la etnia, el género, la sexualidad, la nacionalidad y la lengua) sobre las condiciones materiales de la vida.