Commentary: Transnational South Korea as a site for a sociolinguistics of globalization and the distinction of global elites  

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Block, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sociolinguistics (Full Text) vol. 16 no. 2 (2012), page 277–282.
Fulltext: Block_David.pdf (457.73KB)

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In this short piece, I focus on one single topic: the elite class status of the protagonists of the contributions to this special issue on transnational South Korea as a site for a sociolinguistics of globalization. This elite class status is very much a product of the times in which we live, as we move into the second decade of the 21st century. However, I find a foundation for my discussion of it in work first published over a century and half ago. I thus begin with a well-known quote from Marx and Engels’s The German Ideology, which I think is appropriate: The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the rulingmaterial force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. (Marx and Engels 1998 [1845]: 67)

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