Language, Agency and Hegemony: A Gramscian Response to Post‐Marxism

Ives, Peter

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“…A closer reading of Gramsci reveals the distinctions between the types of hegemony that he castigates and those that he praises, as will be explained below in reference to a unified language. Nemni's argument here is also tied to his acceptance of Laclau and Mouffe's charge of Gramsci's class reductionism that I have addressed elsewhere (Ives 2005). 22.…”

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Global English, Hegemony and Education: Lessons from Gramsci

Ives

2009

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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Antonio Gramsci and his concept of hegemony are often invoked in current debates concerning cultural imperialism, globalisation and global English. However, these debates are rarely cognizant of Gramsci's own university training in linguistics, the centrality of language to his writings on education and hegemony, or his specific engagement with language politics in his own day. By paying much greater attention to Gramsci's writings on language and education, this article attempts to lay the groundwork for an adequate approach to the current politics of global English.While Gramsci may have left formal education and his studies in linguistics at Turin University as a young man to become a full time journalist and political activist, he certainly did not 'jettison' his study of language as is commonly implied. It has been widely accepted that Gramsci had an expansive conception of education which would curtail any suggestion that 'education' must be limited to formal schooling or university. Likewise, this article demonstrates the importance of Gramsci's lifelong analysis of language, its role in education and the development of hegemony. It argues that Gramsci's writings on language policy in Italy, specifically la questione della lingua [the language question] and his concern with linguistics, are an integral part of his approach to education and hegemony.

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Global English, Hegemony and Education: Lessons from Gramsci

Ives

2009

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“…Furthermore, in an era when social inequality has reached record proportions (Piketty, 2014;Dorling, 2015), where living standards have still not recovered from the global capitalist crash (soon to be repeated?) of 2008, and where class-based politics (on both left and right) is back with a vengeance, we see a resurgent Marxist tradition (Therborn, 2008: 172) which has successfully weathered the theoretical storm of 'post-modernism' (Norris, 1990;Eagleton, 2003) or 'post-Marxism' (Ives, 2005) and is regaining the territory it lost in linguistics as well as in political and cultural theory (Ives, 2004;Brandist, 2015).…”

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Karl Marx and the language sciences – critical encounters: introduction to the special issue

Jones

2018

Language Sciences

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could perhaps add, on a personal note, that I have been struggling with these issues for nearly 40 years now, off and on. Having embarked on a linguistics PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1976, initially on a Chomskyan topic, my own political allegiances led me to search out Marxist thinking on language which I found in Vygotsky's Thought and Language (Vygotsky, 1962), in the tantalising eighth chapter of Ilyenkov's Dialectical Logic (Ilyenkov, 1977a), and in Voloshinov's Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (Voloshinov, 1973). And so, with the kind support of my doctoral supervisor, Terence Moore, I changed topic mid-stream. I was awarded my PhD in 1982 for a dissertation entitled 'Materialism and the Structure of Language' which, for its doctrinaire and mechanistic 'Marxism', makes excruciating, though salutary, reading today.

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“…From the standpoint of discourse analysis we have to acknowledge that the language dimensions of the analysis of conflicts is not unanimously accepted. In fact, more often than not, political economists and orthodox Marxists have discarded discourse analysis and the linguistic turn as merely a study of words or text, distinct from real social issues, or ‘a decay from well‐grounded, material reality into the idealistic and problematic realm of language and discourse’ (Ives, : 456). For instance, political economists such as Hewitt contend that discourse analysis, as part of a postmodern destruction of reason, undermines human liberation by dissolving into mere webs of ‘fictive meaning’ (Hewitt, : 80).…”

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“…De Goede contends that many authors in international political economy are still ‘wedded to a profound separation between the realm of the ideal and the realm of the real, whereby the politics of representation are seen to have a bearing only on the former domain leaving the latter intact as an incontestable reality’ (De Goede, : 80). Ives asserts that something must be done about this ‘perpetuation of the dualism between economic analysis and linguistics, between “material” and language’ (Ives, : 466). However, it can be argued, that this is the project has already been undertaken by some discourse analysts who have integrated elements of political economy and the Marxist critical study of social conditions.…”

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The Problems of Mexico: An Analysis of a Sociological Discourse

Faille

2013

Bull Latin American Res

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Based on an empirical analysis of articles published between 1987 and 2006 in three major Mexican sociological journals, my research traces the continuities and discontinuities in the study of the alleged malfunctioning of Mexican society. The study of how sociologists represented Mexican society has revealed several discursive dynamics. The traditional economic and political perspectives blaming social problems on elites predominate. Studies of electoral system flaws, political contention, lacklustre democracy in unions, and union collusion with industrial capitalism abound. More recently, however, the introduction of the study of globalisation has transformed the examination of these issues.

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Language, Agency and Hegemony: A Gramscian Response to Post‐Marxism

Cited by 21 publications

References 10 publications

Global English, Hegemony and Education: Lessons from Gramsci

Global English, Hegemony and Education: Lessons from Gramsci

Karl Marx and the language sciences – critical encounters: introduction to the special issue

The Problems of Mexico: An Analysis of a Sociological Discourse

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