Discourse and International Relations

Contents: Dagmar Scheu/José Saura Sánchez: Introduction - Teun A. van Dijk: Macro contexts - Irina Oukhanova-Shmygova: Culturally-biased speech behaviour patterns of Russian and Belarussian politicians - Alfonso García Martínez/Antonia Ma Sánchez Lázaro: Symbolic racism and its concretion in immigration - Dagmar Scheu/Elena Zamora Sánchez: Recontextualization in public discourses of the consequences of the East-West conflict: The case of José Couso - José Saura Sánchez: Prototypical discourses: The linguistic construction of intercultural relations - María D. López Maestre: Investigating language and ideology in discourse on immigration: A corpus-based critical approach - Alvino E. Fantini: Intercultural competence: Exploring its multiple dimensions - Gregory B. Lee: Consuming cultures: Translating the global, homogenizing the local - Florent Villard: Europeanized culture, hybridity and the question of the intercultural in 1930s China: The position of Qu Qiubai (1899-1935) - David Walton: Getting at language, power and ideology after 9/11: An intervention into 'Bushness Studies' - Alvino E. Fantini: Exploring bilingualism: Its development, use and effects - Dora Sales Salvador: Awareness in an immigrant-receiving society: Intercultural mediation and translation/interpretation in public services - Roberto Ortí Teruel: An approach to the Arabic communicative model from the field of conversation analysis - Ignacio Sada García: Intercultural education and educational centres abroad.

The Editors: U. Dagmar Scheu Lottgen has a Ph.D. in English and is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Murcia University. She has published, both nationally and internationally, in the fields of Discourse Analysis and Intercultural Communication.
José Saura Sánchez has a Ph.D. in English and is teacher at The Foreign Service of Murcia University. He is also member of the research group «Cultural Studies in English and German Speaking Countries» of the Department of English Philology. He has national and international publications in research fields such as Ethnography of Communication, Intercultural Relations and Critical Discourse Analysis.