The research is built on the method of case study and six practicing Icelandic teachers in secondary schools were interviewed and the results were put in context and compared to Bourdieu´s (1977) theories about the language as a cultural and social capital in the school environment.
Notað var rannsóknarsnið eigindlegra rannsókna og tekin viðtöl við sex starfandi framhalds-skólakennara í íslensku. Niðurstöður voru skoðaðar út frá hugmyndum Bourdieu (1977; 1991) um tungumálið sem félagslegt- og menningarlegt auðmagn.