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title="son of bourdieu"
editors=giacomo.md
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> linguistic relations are always relations of symbolic power through which relations of force between the speakers and their respective groups are actualized in a trasfigured form [...] Even the simpliest linguistic exchange brings into play a complex and ramifying web of historical power relations between the speaker, endowed with a specific social authority, and an audience, which recognizes this authority to varying degrees, as well as between the groups to which they respectively belong (Bourdieu, Waquant, 1992: 142-143)