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Imagining globalization : language, identities, and boundaries / edited by Ho Hon Leung ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Leung, Ho Hon, 1961-
Language: English Publisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Description: vi, 256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780230609631
Contents:
Content : English : 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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Book Book British Museum
Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KKC [LEU-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M48205

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Content : English : 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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