Imagining globalization: language, identities, and boundaries

Imagining globalization: language, identities, and boundaries

Leung, Ho Hon

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This collection gives voice to the peoples and groups impacted by globalization as they seek to negotiate their identities, language use, and territorial boundaries within a larger global context. INDICE: - Prologue: Imagining Globalization through Changes in Place; H.H.Leung M.Hendley - PART I: LANGUAGE - English: A Globalized Language in Scienceand Technology; J.F.Chiang - Global English in Asian Fiction; X.Xi - Globalization through Global Brand Transposition; S.Chiang& H.Mi - PART II: IDENTITIES- Maintenance of Spanish as a Heritage Language in a Global World; M.C.Montoya - Language Choice among Maya Handicrafts Vendors in an International TourismMarketplace; W.E.Little - Making of Pacific Mall: Chinese Identity and Architecture in Toronto; H.H.Leung& R.Lau - Citizens or Consumers b British Conservative Political Propaganda Towards Women in Two World Wars; M.Hendley - PART III: BOUNDARIES - Capoeira and Globalization; J.M.Rosenthal - Immigration and Indigenization in the Mexican Diaspora in the Southwestern United States; B.Haley - Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of State Legitimacy in South Africa and Japan; R.W.Compton Jr. - Searching for Semantics in Music: A Global Discourse; O.Legname - Human Movements: Consequences to Global Biogeography; T.Horvath - Epilogue: Echoes from the Past Reflections; T.Sakoulas -

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-60963-1
  • Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 272
  • Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2010
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés