This volume deals with communicative, social and media-related aspects of
discourses under globalization.
In one way or another, all the contributions touch upon issues relating to new
multilingualism and new multiculturalism, which are being propelled worldwide by
politically and economically motivated processes of migration. The pivotal topics covered
are: postmodern social identities (esp. national, transnational and consumer identities),
linguistic and cultural variation and change under the influence of global English and new
technologies, as well as the ideologization of public discourses and that of the media in
particular.
The chapters are united by their focus on in-depth critical interpretations of public
(often political) discourses. While most of the contributions are couched in a Critical
Discourse Analysis framework, room has been made for cognate interdisciplinary approaches
to social communication. Alongside well grounded empirical studies, this volume features
innovative theoretical reflections and proposals of how new approaches and methods for
investigating social and linguistic phenomena might be employed to meet the challenges of
the 21st century. The bilingual format of this volume (English and German) affords the
possibility to elucidate on language- and culture- based variation and on how these
respective issues are academically researched and socially mediated.
610 pages, Paperback