TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spence,Crawford
AU  - Brivot, Marion
TI  - ‘No French, no more’: language-based exclusion in North America's first professional accounting association, 1879–1927
SN  - 2155-2851
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxfordshire
PB  - Taylor and Francis
KW  - Professional closure
KW  - Accounting profession
KW  - Language
N2  - This paper draws on Bourdieu's sociolinguistic theory to interpret the overrepresentation of Anglophone accountants vis-à-vis Francophone comptables in the formative years of North America's first professional accounting association. In a linguistic market, where English was taken for granted as the official language of commerce, we find that the founding members of the Association of Accountants in Montreal (AAM) possessed a ‘distinctive’ cultural and linguistic habitus. We observe that the AAM enacted for many years a number of exclusion strategies to effectively limit its admittance of Francophone compatibles who possessed a different cultural and linguistic habitus. When the AAM eventually did explicitly embrace Francophone memberships, this was in order to counter the threat of a rival accounting designation
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/21552851.2011.581839
ER  -