Publications

Publication details [#52600]

Demont-Heinrich, Christof. 2008. American Triumphalism and the “Offensive” Defensiveness of the French: French as a Foil for English in U.S. Prestige Press Coverage of the Global Hegemony of English. Journal of Communication Inquiry 32 (3) : 271–291.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language dominance | language status | press | tension

Language as a subject

English | French

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper wraps the story of the global hegemony of English and related tensions -as revealed through critical analysis of global English spread accounts in five American-owned prestige press publications, around Anglo-Franco competition and rivalry.