Language Policy and Globalization

Covering a wide range of distinct political, economic, and cultural trends, the term ‘ globalization ’ has quickly become one of the most fashionable buzzwords of contemporary political and academic debate. In popular discourse, globalization often functions as little more than a synonym for one or more of the following phenomena: the pursuit of classical liberal (or ‘ free market ’ ) policies in the world economy ( ‘ economic liberalization ’ ), the growing dominance of western (or even American) forms of political, economic, and cultural life ( ‘ westernization ’ or ‘ Americanization ’ ), the proliferation of new information technologies (the ‘ Internet Revolution ’ ), as well as the notion that humanity stands at the threshold of realizing one single unifi ed community in which major sources of social confl ict have vanished ( ‘ global integration ’ ).

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