%0 Journal Article %T ENGLISH AS A WORLD LANGUAGE IN SCANDINAVIA AND ELSEWHERE (PART 1) %A Haberland, Hartmut %J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis %V 2018 %R 10.4467/20834624SL.18.023.9317 %N Volume 135, Issue 4 %P 253-260 %K English, global language, ecology of language, hegemony %@ 1897-1059 %D 2018 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/english-as-a-world-language-in-scandinavia-and-elsewhere-part-1 %X This is a paper in two parts, both dealing with the localization of the concept of English as a “world” or “global language”. In the first part, a number of general notions like “globalization” are discussed, and a plea is made for studying the role of any language in a given context ecologically, i.e. in relationship to, and in interaction with, other languages.