Dear all,
Promoting the website 'Language in the New Capitalism'
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lnc-l). The site is a resource for anyone
interested in the language of contemporary capitalism, and the links
between economic, social and linguistic change in the contemporary world.
We hope that various groups of people will use and contribute to the web-
site, including: researchers doing analysis of language; activists in
social movements who see language as part of their concerns; journalists
concerned with language and rhetoric; social researchers in other fields
where language is an issue; and creative writers, who have always been a
force for social change.
Our concern with language is both analytical and critical: a better
understanding of how language figures in the new capitalism is part of a
better understanding of new capitalism, but also increases our capacity to
question and critique it, and, most of all to change it for the better.
Recent articles include:
John E Richardson: Under-reporting New Labour’s Privatisation Plans
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lnc-l/files/Blair_interv.doc)
Vaughan Dutton: Subjects of development: The United Nations Development
Programme as technology of neo-liberal imperialism
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lnc-l/files/dutton_UN.doc)
Best regards
John Richardson
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