A STUDY OF THE TERM GLOBALISATION
A STUDY OF THE TERM GLOBALISATION

Summary/Abstract: This paper describes a study of the term globalisation. It analyses this term from very different perspectives: economic, political, multicultural, and linguistic. The paper also refers to a linguistic analysis done by Teubert and Cermakova (2007: 89-100), who analyzed a sample of 200 citations from the Bank of English of the term globalisation. Consequently, they were able to find the most frequent collocates of the word: “economic”, “markets”, “world”, “investment”, “financial”, “international”. The corpus selected shows what globalisation is (a fact, a trend, a story, a fancy euphemism, a market-led process, a phenomenon, an opportunity, an unstoppable force; it is both good and inevitable; is here to stay; is inherently harmful; is like a giant wave; and what globalisation is not (inevitable; to be resisted; to fight it; just a code word, a painless exercise; the big issue). The rest of the paper presents the methodology that we have used in order to analyse a sample of 200 citations of globalisation from British newspaper articles, the results, and the conclusions of our study.

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