IS THERE A HEGEMONY OF ENGLISH IN CHINA? Zhou Yijie ID: 1405022 With the development of the society and technique，the finance and culture has been globalized. English has generally been considered as a global language by the first and second dispersal (Wikipedia.2014). Consistent with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (Oxford, 2010,p724), it means something is under control of another country or organization. Therefore language hegemony could refer to the phenomenon in which a foreign
Presently, the dominant position of English as a global language is undeniable. However, there has been an inconclusive debate about whether English will remain to be the main means of global communication in the foreseeable future. In my opinion, its great use in dominant fields and its characteristics will enable English to continue to be the global language. To begin, English cannot be easily replaced by any other language as the "lingua franca" because it has been the global language for a long
against each other. As the late 1960s flung the world into an intermingled state of frantic jingoism and paranoia, both nations were vying to capture the winning title of being technologically superior. Just as the phrase, ‘Space Race,’ entered the English lexicon half
Hour all create fantastical and exoticized images of Asian countries and societies. Such portrayals have been thoroughly dissected by scholars across numerous disciplines, who have viewed Western media through the lenses of orientalism, cultural hegemony, and economic opportunism. However, the relationship between Asian Americans and Asia is less well documented. This section seeks to explore portrayals of Asia in Asian