SOME SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES OF ENGLISH AS THE GLOBAL LANGUAGE: Everything Is Changing, Everything Is Going, Going, Gone Now.

The purpose of this paper is to inquire into the ways in which e-language works, considering such issues as how language constructs culture, the global culture, globalization as colonization, and non-English-speaking cultures by addressing the question, "In what ways is the English language implicated in globalization?" The paper is built upon postmodernist ideas of textuality and discourse with close reference to Gregory Ulmer's "mystory." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]