Table of Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 1 Neoliberalism, language, and governmentality

PART I

Language and the neoliberalisation of institutions

CHAPTER 2 Linguistic securitisation as a governmentality in the neoliberalising welfare state

CHAPTER 3 Producing national and neoliberal subjects: Bilingual education and governmentality in the United States

CHAPTER 4 Framing 'choice' in language education: The case of freedom in constructing inequality

CHAPTER 5 Leadership communication ‘skills’ and undergraduate neoliberal subjectivity

PART II

Language and the neoliberal subject

CHAPTER 6 Linguistic entrepreneurship: Neoliberalism, language learning, and class

CHAPTER 7 Fabricating neoliberal subjects through the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

CHAPTER 8 The ‘self-made speaker’: The neoliberal governance of speakers

CHAPTER 9 Resetting minds and souls: Language, employability and the making of neoliberal subjects

Afterwords

Towards an ethnography of linguistic governmentalities

Neoliberalism as a regime of truth: Studies in hegemony

Index

About the Author

Luisa Martín Rojo is Professor in Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid.

Alfonso Del Percio is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at UCL Institute of Education in London.

Reviews

"Led by a lucid introduction that outlines the idea of governmentality, contributions to this book open up a new space for debating the role of language and subjectivity in the persistence of neoliberalism. Their critique of neoliberal rationality offers a timely reflection on how to resist and counter the logic of the market." Joseph Sung-Yul Park, National University of Singapore, Singapore"This book reveals the faultlines in neoliberalism which scholars can uncover when they examine the ways people use neoliberal technologies of the self to manage language use and representations of language. With an expansive approach to educational sites, this imaginative volume lays important groundwork for understanding when neoliberal logics go awry."Ilana Gershon, Indiana University, USA