Why Discourse Matters: Negotiating Identity In The Mediatized World

This volume draws on issues and cases from more than 20 countries to provide empirical evidence and theoretical insights into why discourse matters. Covering a wide range of concepts and topical issues, contributors from media studies, journalism, and linguistics address the following key questions: Why and how does discourse matter pertaining to identity in a mediatized world? Who makes discourse and identity matter, for what reason, in what way, and with what consequences? The volume provokes a new proposition that it is necessary to go beyond the safe havens of disciplinary strongholds with familiar terminology, methodology, and questions to address future inquiries into discourse and identity from a combination of linguistics and journalistic media studies.

• • Author: Yusuf Kalyango, Monika Weronika Kopytowska
• • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• • Publication Date: Jul 31, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 380 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1433123908
• • ISBN-13: 9781433123900