From: Mika J Helander <mhelande-AT-cc.Helsinki.FI>
Subject: Re: *Linguistic market*
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:41:03 +0300 (EEST)


> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking for research which uses Bourdieu's concept of *linguistic
> market* (for explaining language use of immigrants).

Hi Christine,

I think that it occures in one of the essays in "Sociology in Question".

> I know Bourdieu's writings but I'm trying to find references of
> researchers who further developed this concept or applied it.
> 

I found the concept quite useful when I applied it in my study of 
bilingual individuals as diffusion agents between Finland and Sweden. 
I developed it in two directions. First as the generally linguistic
market, in which it is important to speak in a accepted and valued
manner regarding vocabulary, grammar, rethoric strategies etc. in 
order to have cultural capital and for your words to count. Second,
as the market of the two relevant languages, Swedish and Finnish, in
the case of bilingual persons and diffusion between the countries.
This approach helped me understand my empirical findings where 
bilingualism is needed in some groups but not in others and how
Finnish immigrants in Sweden are marginalized in double terms
from the diffusion process regardless of the fact that they have 
all the characteristics of "Marginal men", which according to the
diffusion theory developed by the Chicago School and Symbolic
Interactionism  is important for innovativity.

(My study is published by the Swedish School of Social Science 
with the title: "...men ändå är Sverige där". It is written in Swedish.)

Best wishes, Mika 

> Thank you for any help!
> 
> Christine Blaser
> Ph.D. candidate
> Dept. of sociology
> University of Montreal, Canada
> 
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