Resumen. Llama la atención que la sociolingüística se haya acercado con poca intensidad a la literatura, a pesar de que esta se constituye como un entramado discursivo notoriamente social, especialmente por su ambición de verosimilitud. Partiendo de esta premisa, se propone una lectura sociolingüística de El último patriarca, conectando los hitos sociolingüísticos de los personajes con su lucha social. Manel-Mimoun procurará ser un patriarca implacable y su hija una mujer libre que conquista una nueva identidad. En este recorrido lector se activa un turismo lingüístico-literario, de visita a un paisaje emocional que frecuentemente será recalar en rincones intencionadamente olvidados de nuestra geografía histórico-sentimental.

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GLOBALISATION AND THE INTERCULTURAL SPANISH The actual process of the electronic-financial globalisation requires a certain symbolic uniformity, which, in turn, needs languages, even in the most marginal way, although generally this globalised system tends to consider them as a ballast. From the perspective of this symbolic platform, we can talk about the Global Glasshouse, with thin and transparent sides, from/to which one can be expulsed and/or admitted. Languages, thanks to their constitutive malleability, accommodate themselves to this big glasshouse. For that reason, we can say that the intercultural Spanish language as a communicative breath can cushion an unreal-speculative globalisation, which, however, is meant to have ability to (re)convert languages – despite all its initial restrictions – into a permanently exchangeable merchandise within the flow of the symbolic market.

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