Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
This article brings together trends in Critical Discourse Analysis dating from the 1980s – which examine how language use and ideologies (re)produce social inequality – with current research in the social sciences on neoliberalism and other emerging politico-economic formations. The article addresses such a problematic with an empirical case: the language strategies, dubbed langue de bois, that people affiliated with Luxembourg’s offshore financial center employ to justify their practices. The contribution herein surveys the political rationality of the country’s financial center by analyzing the langue de bois that its representatives and boosters use. These language strategies, furthermore, enable Luxembourg’s finance elites to socialize the domestic public’s understanding of their activities.
Recommended Citation
Weeks, Samuel. 2021. “Langue de bois, or, Discourse in Defense of an Offshore Financial Center.” Journal of Language and Politics 20(2):325-344.
Language
English
Comments
This article is the author's final version prior to publication in the Journal of Language and Politics, Volume 20, Issue 2, 2021, Pages 325-344.
The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.18072.wee. Copyright © John Benjamins Publishing Company
The publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint this material in any form.