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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|34 pages
Theoretical and methodological frameworks: issues, challenges and changes
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
chapter 3|16 pages
From a Village Outlook to a Global Overview
part II|72 pages
Global English: Views from the classroom
chapter 4|14 pages
A Journey with English
chapter 7|13 pages
Being ‘The Villain’
part III|44 pages
Language, identity and crossing the boundaries of the expected
chapter 11|15 pages
Naturalizing A Planned Language
part IV|48 pages
Language Death and Birth
part V|12 pages
Epilogue