ABSTRACT

In this collection of real-life, personal narratives on the theme of language and globalization, scholars from a range of different sub-disciplines of linguistics, time periods, and geographical spaces throughout the world examine the interaction and intersectionality of languages and globalization and the implications of such interactions for world languages and cultures. A feature of the book is the application of autoethnography as its underlying approach/method, in which contributors draw on their own lived experiences (of life, scholarship, and work) to investigate and reflect on linguistic globalization and its issues and challenges against the backdrop of the globalized world of the 21st century.

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

part I|34 pages

Theoretical and methodological frameworks: issues, challenges and changes

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

Theoretical and methodological frameworks: issues, challenges and changes

chapter 2|13 pages

The Diverging Images of Globalization

A Journey in Books and Photos

chapter 3|16 pages

From a Village Outlook to a Global Overview

An Autoethnographic Report of Change in Sociolinguistic Research Questions

part II|72 pages

Global English: Views from the classroom

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

Global English: Views from the classroom

chapter 4|14 pages

A Journey with English

Reexamining the Pragmatic Stance toward the Language of Globalization

chapter 5|13 pages

English Language as Thief

chapter 6|13 pages

Biscriptal English Learners

A Blind Spot in Global English Language Teaching

chapter 7|13 pages

Being ‘The Villain’

Globalization and the ‘Native-Speaker’ English-Language Teacher

part III|44 pages

Language, identity and crossing the boundaries of the expected

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

Language, identity and crossing the boundaries of the expected

chapter 9|10 pages

My Name

An Autoethnographic Reflection

chapter 10|12 pages

Language and Identity

Reflections by a Cultural Commuter

chapter 11|15 pages

Naturalizing A Planned Language

Esperanto and the Promotion of Linguistic Diversity

part IV|48 pages

Language Death and Birth

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

Language Death and Birth

chapter 13|17 pages

An Alaskan Language Odyssey

A Reflection by a Poet

chapter 14|12 pages

In Search of Linguistic Legitimacy

Western Armenian and the New Speaker

part V|12 pages

Epilogue

chapter |2 pages

Ode to My Mother Tongue

chapter |8 pages

Some Dimensions of English and Globalization

An Africanist Afterword