Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness

Manuela Guilherme is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza is Professor of Language Studies at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Introduction: Glocal Languages, the South Answering Back

Manuela Guilherme and Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza



Section I: Glocal Languages – Theoretical Background



Chapter 1: Glocal Languages, Coloniality and Globalization from Below

Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza



Chapter 2: Glocal Languages Beyond Postcolonialism: The North and the South in the north and in the south

Manuela Guilherme



Section II: Indigenous Languages as Glocal Languages



Chapter 3: Glocalism Now and Then: The De-colonial Turn of Guarani, Portuguese and Spanish

Fernanda Martins Felix



Chapter 4: Reshuffling Conceptual Cards: What Counts as Language in Lowland Indigenous South America

Jamille Pinheiro Dias



Section III: Portuguese as Glocal Language



Chapter 5: The Imaginary in Portuguese Language Perceptions in Academia: (Mis)directions Between the Local and the Global

Gesualda dos Santos Rasia



Chapter 6: The Linguistic Atlas of Brazil Project: Contributions Towards Knowledge, Teaching and Disclosure of Brazilian Portuguese

Marcela Moura Torres Paim and Silvana Soares Costa Ribeiro



Section IV: Spanish as Glocal Language



Chapter 7: Comparisons Between Spanish and Portuguese: Proposals for University Teaching

Adrián Pablo Fanjul



Chapter 8: Multiculturalism and Glocal Languages: The Impact of Cultural Mobility in Spanish Teaching and Learning in Southern Brazil

Maria Josele Bucco Coelho



Section V: English as Glocal Language



Chapter 9: English (Mis)education as an Alternative to Challenge English Hegemony: A Geopolitical Debate

Daniel de Mello Ferraz



Chapter 10: Teaching English to Undergraduate Students in a Brazilian University: Thinking Glocally

Alessandra Coutinho Fernandes



Conclusion: Towards Globalization from Below

Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza and Manuela Guilherme