Author(s)

Cunjiu Kuang

Corresponding Author

Cunjiu Kuang

Abstract

Based on Austin’s and Searle’s speech act theory, Bourdieu focuses on the combination of language and power, integrates with political studies, symbolically regards the entire society as a language-mediated exchange market, and holds that speech acts play an essential role of communication and mediation in the entire linguistic social market, based on which, the well-known theory of “economics of linguistic exchanges” has been proposed.

Keywords

Bourdieu, Economics of Linguistic Exchanges, Speech Act Theory