This chapter revisits the theoretical debates discussed in Chapter 3. However, this concern is pursued in relation to a discussion of the linguistic and cultural debates about the impact of the mobile telephone on language. By following Bourdieu's concern with language as embodied practice, and something that can be analysed in relation to the twin dimensions of field and practice, this chapter presents an alternative approach to understanding the relationship between "language technologies' and society. In essence, Bourdieu gives a critical position from which to counter the universalizing accounts of language and technology which characterize ethnomethodology and postmodernist studies. Also discussed are sociolinguistic accounts of mobility and medium theory, which together offer additional theoretical perspectives that have some affinity with Bourdieu's.