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C onfucius Institute Programming in the U nited S tates: Language Ideology, Hegemony, and the Making of C hinese Culture in U niversity C lasses
Author(s) -
Stambach Amy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12087
Subject(s) - hegemony , ideology , sociology , consumerism , politics , social science , relation (database) , state (computer science) , epistemology , linguistics , law , political science , philosophy , algorithm , database , computer science
This article explores how Confucius Institute teachers and U . S . students use language to index qualities of C hinese people and culture. The study draws on the model of “linguistic fact” to argue that students' and teachers' contextualized use of language occurs in relation to their different yet naturalized assumptions about a commonly shared social world, one they define largely in terms of market consumerism. The article offers the concept of linguistic hegemony to aid in understanding the multiple expressions of language form and use that emerge in C onfucius Institute programs, and to qualify without fully discounting political scientists' claims that C onfucius Institutes are ideological extensions of the C hinese state.