## HERMES

Journal of Language and Communication Studies

## Board of Referees

Barbara Ahrens

Anne Kankaanranta

Francesca Bargiela

Pierre Lerat

Mirjaliisa Charles

Leena Louhiala-Salminen

Andrew Chesterman

Valéria Molnár

Birgitta Englund Dimitrova

Catherine Nickerson

Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen

Henning Nølke

Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera

Gina Poncini

Daniel Gile

Danie Prinsloo

Maurizio Gotti

Annely Rothkegel

Susanne Göpferich

Pernille Schnoor

Stephan Habscheid

Klaus Schubert

John Humbley

Martin Stegu

Arnt Lykke Jakobsen

## Hermogenes:

I should like to know about Hermes.

## Socrates:

I should imagine that the name Hermes has to do with speech, and signifies that he is the interpreter, or messenger, or thief, or liar, or bargainer; all that sort of thing has a great deal to do with language.

(Platon, Kratylos)

## HERMES

## Journal of Language and Communication Studies

43 - 2009

## EDITORIAL BOARD

Jan Engberg (Editor-in-Chief) Iris Rittenhofer & Martin Nielsen (Theme Editors)

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Helle V. Dam, Helle Dam-Jensen, Poul Erik Jørgensen, Wolfgang Koch, Patrick Leroyer

## PUBLISHED BY

Department of Language and Business Communication

Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University

Handelshøjskolen, Aarhus Universitet http://hermes.asb.dk

## © HERMES 2009

HERMES er sat med Times Laserprint af Vibeke Vrang og trykt hos Werks Offset A/S, Århus.

Trykt med støtte fra Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University.

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ISSN 0904-1699

## Contents

| Iris Rittenhofer &Martin Nielsen                                                                                                     |     |
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| The 'G-Words': Critical Understandings of Globalizations in Context.......................................................           |   7 |
| THEMATIC SECTION Critical Understandings of Globalizations in Context                                                                |     |
| ARTICLES                                                                                                                             |     |
| Grahame Thompson                                                                                                                     |     |
| International Quasi-Constitutionalism and Corporate Citizenship: Language, Troubles, Dilemmas.........................               |  13 |
| Stig Thøgersen                                                                                                                       |     |
| China's Symbiotic Narratives of Opening and Globalization..........................................................................  |  35 |
| Iris Rittenhofer &Martin Nielsen                                                                                                     |     |
| Marketscapes. Market between Culture and Globalization..........................................................................     |  59 |
| Ulrich Ufer                                                                                                                          |     |
| Globalization and Modern Identity Practices - Locals and Cosmopolitans in Seventeenth Century Amsterdam.......                       |  97 |
| OTHERARTICLES                                                                                                                        |     |
| Martin Aitken                                                                                                                        |     |
| The English Possessive Marker in a Framework of Relevance........................................................................... | 119 |
| Nina Bonderup Dohn &Christopher Kjær                                                                                                 |     |
| Language Is not Enough - Knowledge Perspectives on Work-Based Learning in Global Organisations ................                      | 137 |
| Mohammed Jadir                                                                                                                       |     |
| Grammaire fonctionnelle (de discours) : Évaluation et perspectives......................................................             | 163 |

| Anne Lise Laursen                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        |     |
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| Plain Language - a Panacea of Linguistic Quality Assurance? .............................................................................                                                                                                                | 203 |
| Kåre Solfjeld                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |     |
| Redewiedergabe in verschiedener Form - ein Vergleich Deutsch-Norwegisch..............................................................                                                                                                                    | 219 |
| Lilian Stage                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |     |
| Les constructions siamoises en français et dans cinq autres langues européennes. Étude sur la comparative corrélative......................................                                                                                              | 251 |
| REVIEWS                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |     |
| John Gibbons and M. Teresa Turell (eds.):                                                                                                                                                                                                                |     |
| Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2008. (Patrizia Anesa) .....................................................................                                                                                  | 295 |
| Susannne Göpferich:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |     |
| Stand - Methoden - Perspektiven Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2008. (Tina Paulsen Christensen &Carmen Heine) .......................                                                                                                                     | 299 |
| Comparative Legal Linguistics Hampshire: Ashgate, 2006. (Jan Engberg).........................................................................                                                                                                           | 305 |
| Olivier Bertrand et Isabelle Schaffner (éds.): Le français de spécialité. Enjeux culturels et linguistiques Palaiseau, Les Editions de l'Ecole polytechnique, 2008. (John Humbley)...................................................................... | 309 |
| Jens Normann Jørgensen &Pia Quist: Unges sprog [Die Sprache der Jugendlichen]                                                                                                                                                                            |     |
| København: Hans Reitzel, 2008. (Loránd-Levente Pálfi)...........................................................                                                                                                                                         | 315 |
| Publications Received ...............................................................                                                                                                                                                                    | 323 |