Imagining Globalization: Language, Identities, and Boundaries

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Prologue Imagining Globalization through Changes in Place....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
English: A Globalized Language in Science and Technology....Pages 15-23
Global English in Asian Fiction: Some Thoughts on Writing Contemporary Fiction from and of Asia in English....Pages 25-43
Glocalization through Global Brand Transposition....Pages 45-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Maintenance of Spanish as a Heritage Language in a Global World....Pages 63-84
Language Choice among Mayan Handicraft Vendors in an International Tourism Marketplace....Pages 85-105
Making of the Pacific Mall: Chinese Identity and Architecture in Toronto....Pages 107-125
Citizens or Consumers? British Conservative Political Propaganda toward Women in the Two World Wars....Pages 127-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Capoeira and Globalization....Pages 145-163
Immigration and Indigenization in the Mexican Diaspora in the Southwestern United States....Pages 165-184
Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of State Legitimacy in South Africa and Japan....Pages 185-207
Searching for Semantics in Music: A Global Discourse....Pages 209-227
Human Movements: Consequences to Global Biogeography....Pages 229-242
Epilogue Echoes from the Past Reflections....Pages 243-245
Back Matter....Pages 247-256