Language and Political Economy explores issues of language ideology, language rights, language and social reproduction, and language policy under the framework of contemporary linguistic anthropology. The course will draw on recent ethnographic work in this field, highlighting links between such case studies and relevant theories of social reproduction and social change.
語言與政治經濟學探討之議題包括：語言意識形態、語言權、語言與社會再生產、語言政策，而這些都涵括在語言人類學的架構下。本課程將運用此領域的近期民族誌著作，強調民族誌個案間的連結與社會再生產、社會變遷的相關理論。