The experience of linguistic globalization and the communicative disorder it entails require a serious retooling of most basic units of linguistic analysis. The chaos and indeterminacy of contemporary flows of people, knowledge, texts, and commodities across social and geographical space challenge most sociolinguistic assumptions about social interactions. In particular, we can no longer assume that national territory is linked to a dominant language in ways that bind people together, facilitate interactions, or minimize conflicts. At the same time, communicative practices are still embedded in the territorial apparatuses of the nation-state (from control over the power grid to border enforcement and exclusions). By revisiting the concept of transidioma – i.e., the ensemble of communicative practices of people embedded in multilingual environments and engaged in interactions that blend face-to-face and digitally-mediated communication (Jacquemet 2005a) – as it applies to three different phenomena (the reliance on territorial infrastructure, the heightened sense of territoriality due to globalization, and the search for country origins during asylum hearings), this paper complexifies the interaction between language and space by discussing the importance of the territory in late-modern communication.

语言全球化及其带来的交流障碍的经验要求对语言分析的大多数基本单元进行认真的重组。跨社会和地理空间的当代人流，知识流，文本流和商品流的混乱和不确定性，挑战了有关社会互动的大多数社会语言学假设。特别是，我们不能再假定国家领土以将人们捆绑在一起，促进互动或使冲突最小化的方式与主导语言联系在一起。同时，交流实践仍被嵌入民族国家的地域范围内（从对电网的控制到边境执法和排除）。通过回顾跨膜瘤的概念 –即，嵌入多种语言环境中的人们的交流实践合奏，并且参与了将面对面的交流和数字媒介传播相结合的互动（Jacquemet 2005a）–因为它适用于三种不同的现象（对领土基础设施的依赖，由于全球化以及在庇护听证会期间寻求国家起源而增强了领土感），本文通过讨论领土在近现代交流中的重要性，使语言和空间之间的相互作用更加复杂。