1. Homo loquax : Talking bodies.
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Eagleton, Terry
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GLOBALIZATION , *CONFLICT of interests , *LINGUISTIC demography , *ANTI-globalization movement , *INTERNATIONAL relations , *INTERNATIONAL markets , *INTERNATIONAL trade - Abstract
A conflict between the local and the global is built into the contradiction of being a linguistic animal, at once bound by one's bodiliness to the local and able to conceptualize (and therefore to act) far beyond it. The paper considers some of the effects of this conflict, before proceeding briefly to examine four interrelated but distinct terms: universal, international, cosmopolitan and global. This paper was originally delivered as a lecture given at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's conference ‘Navigating Globalization: Stability, Fluidity and Friction’, sponsored by the NTNU Globalization Programme held in Trondheim, Norway, August, 2005. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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