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.

Contents: Paul Chilton: Why Discourse Matters: Negotiating Identity in the Mediatized World ¿ Monika Weronika Kopytowska/Yusuf Kalyango, Jr.: Introduction: Discourse, Identity, and the Public Sphere ¿ Mei Li Lean/Maya Khemlani David: Media Discourse as a Double-Edged Sword in Ethnic Integration ¿ Li Zeng/Zhiwen Xiao/Khalat Tahat: Terrorism and Middle East Identity on Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya Websites ¿ Laura Filardo-Llamas/Elena González-Cascos Jiménez: Memory and Identity in the Public Sphere: Northern Irish Murals ¿ Enakshi Roy: Identity, Discourse and Cultural Signifiers in Indian Game Shows ¿ Monika Weronika Kopytowska: Pictures in Our Heads: Crisis, Conflict and Drama ¿ Godwin Etse Sikanku/Margaret Ivy Amoakohene: Media Discourse of President Barack Obama in Sub-Saharan Africa ¿ Yusuf Kalyango Jr./Jared Henderson: New York Times Rhetorical Discourse Framing of Two Gadhafian Protégés ¿ Kate Azuka Omenugha: Reading Images: African Women in the British News ¿ Bryan McLaughlin/Hemant Shah: Agent of Change or Compromise? Jesse Jackson¿s 1988 Presidential Campaign ¿ Jared Henderson/Yusuf Kalyango, Jr.: The Ideology of Sexuality in Media Discourse and Text ¿ Ashley D. Furrow: Framing Discourse and the Collective Memory of College Athletics ¿ Christopher Hutton: «Soft» and «Hard» Theories of Identity: Orientalism, Aryanism, and Race ¿ Piotr Cap: Proximization, Threat Construction, and Symbolic Distancing in Political Discourse ¿ Padmini Banerjee/Myna German: Religious-Ethnic Identities in Multicultural Societies: Identity in the Global Age ¿ Majid Khosravi Nik: Critical Discourse Analysis, Power, and New Media Discourse ¿ Bob Hodge: Discourse Analysis and the Challenge of Identities ¿ Monika Weronika Kopytowska: Discourse Matters: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries.