Handbook Language Globalization

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7581-4
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1329 g

The Handbook of Language and Globalization brings together important new studies of language and discourse in the global era, consolidating a vibrant new field of sociolinguistic research.
- The first volume to assemble leading scholarship in this rapidly developing field
- Features new contributions from 36 internationally-known scholars, bringing together key research in the field and establishing a benchmark for future research
- Comprehensive coverage is divided into four sections: global multilingualism, world languages and language systems; global discourse in key domains and genres; language, values and markets under globalization; and language, distance and identities
- Covers an impressive breadth of topics including tourism, language teaching, social networking, terrorism, and religion, among many others 
- Winner of the British Association for Applied Linguistics book prize 2011

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coupland, Nikolas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments x

Introduction: Sociolinguistics in the Global Era 1
Nikolas Coupland

Part I Global Multilingualism, World Languages, and Language Systems 29

1 Globalization, Global English, and World English(es): Myths and Facts 31
Salikoko S. Mufwene

2 Language Systems 56
Abram De Swaan

3 The Global Politics of Language: Markets, Maintenance, Marginalization, or Murder? 77
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson

4 World Languages: Trends and Futures 101
Ulrich Ammon

5 Language Policy and Globalization 123
Thomas Ricento

6 Panlingual Globalization 142
Jonathan Pool

7 The Spread of Global Spanish: From Cervantes to reggaetón 162
Clare Mar-Molinero

8 New National Languages in Eastern Europe 182
Brigitta Busch

Part II Global Discourse in Key Domains and Genres 201

9 Localizing the Global on the Participatory Web 203
Jannis Androutsopoulos

10 Globalizing the Local: The Case of an Egyptian Superhero Comic 232
Theo van Leeuwen and Usama Suleiman

11 Language and the Globalizing Habitus of Tourism: Toward A Sociolinguistics of Fleeting Relationships 255
Adam Jaworski and Crispin Thurlow

12 Globalization and Language Teaching 287
David Block

13 Discursive Constructions of Global War and Terror 305
Adam Hodges

14 Has God Gone Global? Religion, Language, and Globalization 323
Annabelle Mooney

Part III Language, Values, and Markets under Globalization 347

15 Language as Resource in the Globalized New Economy 349
Monica Heller

16 Language and Movement in Space 366
Jan Blommaert and Jie Dong

17 Indexing the Local 386
Barbara Johnstone

18 Ecolinguistics and Globalization 406
Arran Stibbe

19 The Chinese Discourse of Human Rights and Glocalization 426
Shi-Xu

20 Meanings of 'Globalization': East and West 447
Peter Garrett

21 Languages and Global Marketing 475
Helen Kelly-Holmes

Part IV Language, Distance, and Identities 493

22 Shadows of Discourse: Intercultural Communication in Global Contexts 495
Claire Kramsch and Elizabeth Boner

23 Unraveling Post-Colonial Identity through Language 520
Rakesh M. Bhatt

24 At the Intersection of Gender, Language, and Transnationalism 540
Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi

25 Globalization and Gay Language 555
William L. Leap

26 Metroethnicities and Metrolanguages 575
John C. Maher

27 Popular Cultures, Popular Languages, and Global Identities 592
Alastair Pennycook

28 Global Representations of Distant Suffering 608
Lilie Chouliaraki

29 Global Media and the Regime of Lifestyle 625
David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen

Index 644

Über Autor(innen)

Nikolas Coupland is Research Director, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University. He is an elected member of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. He is co-editor of the book series, Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics. Coupland was also founding editor, with Allan Bell, of the Journal of Sociolinguistics.