Discourse studies and identity construction in-between epistemological and methodological locality and translocality: Migrant discourse in Mexican media as a communicative, relational and identitarian space

Abstract

Discourse research that wants to do justice to socio-political, geographical or even economic complexity at the interface between local and translocal circumstances must ask itself which concept of discourse works best as a basis for rich descriptions. A cognitive approach to discourse allows us to represent it as a complex space that allows for a more detailed insight into how people construct their communicational, relational and identity worlds. This essay takes a look how these discourse spaces have an identity-forming character, exemplified with the Mexican media discourse on the migration between Mexico and the United States.