American hegemony refers to the dominant political, economic, and military position of United States in world since end World War II. The influence culture has become increasingly widespread all aspects life attracted attention academics, including Studies scholars. book entitled Understanding Hegemony written by Kasiyarno is a work that explains from perspective Studies. theoretical framework ...

Focusing on issues of class identity, this paper explores the relationship between sociolinguistics and Raymond Williams’ view hegemony as “relations domination subordination… [that saturate] whole process living…: Our senses assignments energy, our shaping perceptions ourselves world” (1977: 109-110). It assesses kinds insight afforded in both variationist interactional sociolinguistics, then ...

It is commonplace enough to observe that nineteenth century Britain could not forever maintain her global hegemony. The world's first industrial power was bound to be challenged by the rise of modern industrial economies in the United States, Germany and Japan. Similarly, the contraction of the capitalist world and the collapse of colonialism were events over which Britain had little direct con...