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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics 23] 2020
► pp. 139–153

Hegemony

 | Roskilde University
Published online: 20 November 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.23.heg1
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Hegemony from Ancient Greece to Gramsci
  • 3.The sociolinguistic and political sources of Gramsci’s concept of egemonia
  • 4. Egemonia in the Notebooks
  • 5.Post-Gramscian theories of hegemony (Williams, Laclau and Mouffe, Hall, Guha, Robinson)
  • 6.Hegemony in linguistics from the mid-’80s
    • Hegemony of languages, or of varieties of languages
    • The role of language in hegemonic structures
  • 7.Perspective
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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