Commentary: A sociolinguistics of globalization.

The author introduces articles about the globalization of socioliguistics in the volume 7 of the "Journal of Sociolinguistics". Research papers in the issue addressing matters of scale; Various papers about the relationship between a world language and local speech repertoires or speech communities; Research paper by Thurlow and Jaworski showing how airlines produce self-imaginings of globality while remaining based in one country or place; The author define the term globalization; Machin and van Leeuwen's emphasizing of the domain-related spread of global registers rather than languages; Articles providing insights into the specific role of particular mediating institutions in economies; The author suggest the need to address the language-ideological level; The author asserts that the key to understanding the processes of globalized insertion of varieties into stratified orders of indexicality is to discover what such reorderings of repertoires actually mean; Suggestion of Meyerhoff and Niedzielski that vernacularization is ametapragmatic complex conveying all kinds of indexical meanings; Discussion of the Rip Slyme case by Alastair Pennycool.