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Intro -- Endorsements -- Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sociolinguistics in the Global Era -- The End of Globalization? -- Global Multilingualism, World Languages and Language Systems -- Global Discourse in Key Domains and Genres -- Language, Values, and Markets under Globalization -- Language, Distance, and Identities -- Part I: Global Multilingualism, World Languages, and Language Systems -- 1 Globalization, Global English, and World English(es): Myths and Facts -- Introduction -- What Is Globalization and What Is New about It? -- Colonization and Globalization -- The European Colonial Expansion since the Fifteenth Century -- The British Empire, the British Commonwealth, and the Emergence of English as a Pre-Eminent 'World Language' -- World Englishes -- The Fallacy of 'Global English' -- Will there Be an English-Only Europe? -- Conclusions -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 2 Language Systems -- The Communication Potential of a Language: The Q-Value -- Recorded Language as Collective Cultural Capital -- Protectionism and Free Trade in Cultural Exchange -- Monoglossia, Polyglossia, and Heteroglossia -- The Case of the European Union -- English as the Hub of the World Language System -- 3 The Global Politics of Language: Markets, Maintenance, Marginalization, or Murder? -- Prospects for the World's Languages -- From Colonization to Corporate Globalization -- Linguistic Neo-Imperialism -- Why Are Languages 'Disappearing'? The Role of Formal Education -- Linguistic Genocide and Crimes against Humanity in Education -- Linguistic and Cultural Diversity and Biodiversity: Correlational and Causal Relationships -- Linguistic Human Rights in Market-Oriented Globalization -- Moral and Welfare Considerations: Costs of Diversity -- 4 World Languages: Trends and Futures.