The nature of the New Policies in China (1901–1911) has been hotly debated for decades. While scholars doubt sincerity Qing government their pursuit constitutional reform, there is a general agreement on high quality educational reform. Some even consider innovations as “genuine reform” but condemn political reform “pseudo reform”. How could be independent influence? To understand institutional...

The paper examines language as a discourse mode of communicating the modulations and dimensions power in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather. explores relationship between social relationships narrative. focus essay is on shifting encounters. adopts critical linguistic study (CLS) to underpin how consciousness permeate theoretical model draws from works Roger Fowler Norman Fairclough. By adop...

Do mundane daily choices, such as what brands people buy in a supermarket, reflect aspects of values and ideologies? This article presents a large-scale field study performed to determine whether traits associated with a conservative ideology, as measured by voting behavior and religiosity, are manifested in consumers' routine, seemingly inconsequential product choices. Our analysis of market s...

We develop a dynamic, 2-party citizen-candidate model in which candidates are distinguished by both their ideology and their valence. We provide sufficient conditions under which (i) the median voter is decisive and (ii) there exists a unique symmetric, stage-undominated, stationary perfect Bayesian equilibrium. In our dynamic setting, reputational concerns endogenize incentives to compromise. ...

Abstract Ideology plays a central role in consumer decisions, actions, and practices. While there have been numerous studies of ideological formations specific consumption contexts, an integrative theoretical framework on ideology has missing. The presented this article integrates systemic, social group, reality perspectives from theory with prior research to conceptualize as ideas ideals that ...

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...