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

Sabine Regina Pfleger

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.

Keywords


discourse as a conceptual space; media discourse; framing; identity; migration Mexico-USA



DOI: https://doi.org/10.22201/enallt.01852647p.2024.79.1079

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2024 Estudios de Lingüística Aplicada

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.