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Hawkey, James; Mooney, Damien – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
In Bourdieusian theory, the use of so-called 'legitimate' language serves to maintain dominant power structures, with 'legitimacy' determined by an array of economic and social conditions inherent in speech communities. Standard languages function as normalised products and are imbued with a greater degree of legitimacy than non-standard varieties…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Power Structure, Social Capital