Incorporating orthographic transcriptions and English translations of primary source discourse in Spanish and Catalan, this chapter documents political tropes representing locally meaningful, patterned ways of doing being Catalan that contribute to 2017 contemporary communicative ecologies. “Political economy” tropes lament Catalonia’s political-economic situation within Spain, expressing desires for local resource management through conflict talk linking (trans)localizing economic processes to Catalonia’s potential transnational emergence. “Democracy and hegemony” tropes idealize Catalan democracy in (trans)localizing practices employing conflict talk and chrononyms related to historical memory, local mythologies, and master narratives reflecting Catalan knowledge, belief, and value systems. Such practices mobilize transnational mental representations of self-determination as semiotic resources of globalization. Rooted in generational entelechy and habitus, fer futur tropes manifest values-based group distinctions and emergent coding, illustrating globalization’s uniqueness and complexity in Catalonia.