Most postcolonial African writers choose English as the language of their literary works for the reason of wider audience reception but come to indigenize it to decolonize the colonial tool, i.e. colonial language. The translinguistic process of relexification means subverting colonial cultural imperialism and colonial linguistic imposition through the dialogic interaction opened in the w...

Imperialism in New Testament (related) films relates to an important aspect of the reception of the Bible in film. After a brief investigation of the concept imperialism, this contribution explores particular instances where imperialism and NT themes intersect in film: the relationship between imperialism, Jesus-followers and Romans; satirical approaches to imperialism in NT films; and, the int...

In his article "Goethe's World Literature, Universal Particularism, and European Imperialism" Dongho Cha tracks the ideology in Goethe's concept of "world literature." Early comparatists claim to stand for the universalism of this concept by understanding it to totalize all literatures across linguistic, territorial, and national boundaries and intended to go beyond European nationalism. Cha ar...

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i) ‘English is neutral’ since no cultural requirements are tied to the learning of English, [...] English belongs to everyone or no one, or at least is quite often regarded as having this property. Ronald Wardhaugh (1987) ii) ‘English is imperialist’ What is at stake when English spreads is not merely the substitution or displacement of one language by another [...] from an awareness of this as...

An increasing number of studies have demonstrated how language textbooks serve as an arena for ideological reproduction. Following the theory ideology, this paper aims to examine representation English in a textbook targeting Chinese university students China. Data were subjected content analysis and critical discourse regarding their reference embodied identity options, images, case studies, c...

This paper reviews Uskali Mäki’s epistemic analysis of economics imperialism formulated in terms of the science unification ideal and the three constraints on imperialism he develops. It then examines the phenomenon of ‘reverse imperialism’ associated with the influence of other fields on economics especially since 1980, and advances a core-periphery model of the identity of economics as a fiel...

This article is devoted to the question of how a native speaker exercises his authority over non-native speaker. The research was carried out within framework theory linguistic imperialism. To reveal these relations, concept right correction introduced. describe figures and speaker, we turn researchers imperialism, in particular R. Phillipson, Yu. Tsuda, etc. It said that standard view dominanc...