Languaging Class

<p>This volume explores the issue of social class from the point of view of its linguistic articulations. Indeed as Machin and Richardson (2008) stated discourses may be variously approached as (often simultaneously) reflecting class structures as a site of class inequalities as expressive of class identities or class consciousness and/or as a constituent part of more performative class action. Some of the contributions that make up the volume were presented at a conference held at Cagliari University Italy in 2017 and responded to the call for analyses on the role of language in reflecting maintaining enacting and inculcating ideas on social class in literary and non-literary texts and discourses in any cultural or linguistic setting. This volume aspires to encourage scholars in disciplines and academic fields that have shied away from reflections on structural inequalities in favor of studies on ethnic gender and cultural identities in the last decades to take back on board the concept of social class and to engage with it in a novel way. The variety of approaches - ranging from the more traditional sociolinguistic one anthropology to literary and discourse studies - and cultural settings - with case studies coming from 3 continents - represented in the chapters show that social class is a productive and illuminating concept for trying to (re)make sense of social reproduction and change. </p>