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• Sociolinguistics [Browse]

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Reading Gramsci Language and hegemony in Gramsci

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English

Contents

• ""Contents""; ""Reading Gramsci""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Language and hegemony in Gramsci""; ""The pervasiveness of Gramsci's hegemony""; ""Approaching language and hegemony""; ""Overview""; ""1. Language and Social Theory: The Many Linguistic Turns""; ""Language, production and politics in the twentieth century""; ""The many 'linguistic turns'""; ""Saussure's structural approach to language""; ""The structuralist turn towards language""; ""Philosophy's 'linguistic turn'""; ""The many other 'linguistic turns'""; ""Marxism and language""; ""Conclusion""
• ""2. Linguistics and Politics in Gramsci's Italy""""Gramsci's home, Sardinia""; ""The Southern Question and the Risorgimento""; ""The Language Question""; ""Gramsci's youth""; ""'Beyond the Wide Waters'""; ""Gramsci's linguistics""; ""Italian linguistics""; ""Bartoli's polemic against the Neogrammarians""; ""Idealist linguistics and Benedetto Croce""; ""Summary of various approaches to Language""; ""Gramsci and Esperanto""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. Language and Hegemony in the Prison Notebooks""; ""Approaching the Prison Notebooks""; ""Non-linguistic understandings of hegemony""
• ""Two broad themes in hegemony""""Gramsci's expansion of 'polities'""; ""Language, philosophy and intellectuals""; ""Subalternity and fragmented 'common sense'""; ""Language, nation, collective popular will""; ""Language and metaphor""; ""The structures of language""; ""Two grammars of hegemony""; ""Spontaneous grammar""; ""Normative grammar""; ""Normative history in spontaneous grammar""; ""Normative grammar and progressive hegemony""; ""Conclusion""; ""4. Gramsci's Key Concepts, with Linguistic Enrichment""; ""Passive revolution and ineffective national language""
• ""War of manoeuvre and war of position""""War of position as passive revolution""; ""Nationalâ€?popular collective will""; ""War of position and new social movement alliances""; ""Language as a model for the nationalâ€?popular collective will""; ""Hegemony, political alliances and the united front against Fascism""; ""State and civil society""; ""The history of state and civil society""; ""The state""; ""Conclusion""; ""5. Postmodernism, New Social Movements and Globalization: Implications for Social and Political Theory""; ""Postmodernism, language and relativism: is all the world a text?""
• ""Nietzsche, Saussure and Derrida on language""""Language and relativism in Gramsci""; ""Foucault, language and power""; ""Power in Gramsci and Foucault""; ""New social movements and discourse: Laclau and Mouffe""; ""Laclau and Mouffe's linguistically informed 'Hegemony'""; ""Globalization""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""

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1-4593-2313-0

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