The papers in this volume analyze the language situation under globalization in several
European countries. How does the spread of Global English affect the integrity of the local
systems? Changes in lexical and discursive repertories are evidenced and discussed. It is shown
how new social identities are linguistically constructed and redefined in the social
consciousness of the various local communities. The authors see globalization as a major
change-in-progress that sets in relief the dual capacity of language: communication and
identification. The collection reconciles empirical data analysis with profound attention to a
host of theoretical issues such as a new ecology for language under globalization or a new
interdiscursivity of globalizing communications. It is argued that
globalization-as-recontextualization of meanings poses a serious challenge for a new science of
language. The spatial imagery of center-margin is chosen to expound on the complex interaction
between the global and the local. The concept of a glocal view on language affords a new
perspective for coping with massive linguistic change.
