Imagining globalization : language, identities, and boundaries / edited by Ho Hon Leung ... [et al.]. - Palgrave Macmillan : New York, NY, 2009. - vi, 256 p. : ill ; 22 cm.

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.

a globalized language in science and technology / Joseph F. Chiang --Global English in Asian fiction : some thoughts on writing contemporary fiction from and of Asia in English / Xu Xi -- Glocalization through global brand transposition / Shiao-Yun Chiang and Hanfu Mi --Maintenance of Spanish as a heritage language in a global world / Maria Cristina Montoya --Language choice among Mayan handicraft vendors in an international tourism marketplace / Walter E. Little --Making of the Pacific Mall : Chinese identity and architecture in Toronto / Ho Hon Leung and Raymond Lau --Citizens or consumers? British conservative political propaganda toward women in the two world wars / Matthew Hendley --Capoeira and globalization / Joshua M. Rosenthal --Immigration and indigenization in the Mexican diaspora in the Southwestern United States / Brian D. Haley --Construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction of state legitimacy in South Africa and Japan / Robert W. Compton Jr. --Searching for semantics in music : a global discourse / Orlando Legname --Human movements : consequences to global biogeography / Thomas Horvath.

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Culture and globalization.
Anthropological linguistics.
Group identity.
Globalization.

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