Sentence examples for English hegemony from inspiring English sources

It was really a kind of colonialism in asserting English hegemony over Northern Irish poetry.

It is not, it must be admitted, a particularly pretty sight, but then nor was the period of English hegemony.

Micro-bloggers on Sina Weibo (where messages containing some characters are automatically blocked) wrote "Bo" in English in order to comment freely about Bo Xilai, a purged party chief.Though ubiquity and flexibility may give English hegemony, Twitter is also helping smaller and struggling languages.

It didn't emerge by "blending" the different regional or older national cultures inside its boundaries: it wasn't a melting pot, but neither could it be explained as an English hegemony – England imposing its culture and politics on "a helpless and defrauded Celtic periphery".

The growth of the British Empire spurred interest in the various periods of English hegemony during the Middle Ages, including the Angevin Empire and the Hundred Years' War.

The world is quickly becoming lost in a tide of Mandarin, Bengali, Arabic, Hindustani, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, and Russian, but most of all, English, and the United States should not contribute to English hegemony by quashing the diversity that we would, in an ideal world, stand for wholeheartedly.

The most obvious reason is its insistence on an American, or English-language, hegemony -- a kind of literary imperialism, let's say.

Perhaps, educators in sending countries should prepare for students to question critically about, rather than conform to, the hegemony of English and educational practices in English-speaking countries.

In particular, I raise critical questions about how educational policy and practices may tacitly encourage students and parents to pursue educational migration and how these policies contribute to educational inequity among people in the sending countries while reproducing the hegemony of English language and cultural norms and education systems of a few English-speaking countries.

Russia is certainly not the first country to react defensively to the hegemony of English.

However, the hegemony of English in the scientific literature has adverse public health consequences.