ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a model for language textbook analysis which aims to contribute to an emergent approach investigating the links between language textbooks and global political economy. The critical multimodal approach developed here will be applied later in the book to language materials of a medium-sized language, Catalan. It starts with a quantitative analysis which is then followed by a qualitative study focusing first on dimensions of social class and later on the neoliberal practices and values in the worlds of work and housing. The aim of this approach is to examine to what extent the socioeconomic conditions of contemporary capitalism shape the content of language textbooks.
