Der Band geht zurück auf eine Tagung, die im Mai 1998 an der Universität Wien unter dem Titel "Discourse and Racism. An issue for Critical Discourse Analysis" veranstaltet wurde. Inhalt: I. Racism and antiracism: Marek Czyzewski: "External" and "internal" voices in the explanation of right-wing extremist violence (17-40); Philomena Essed: Beyond antiracism: diversity, multi-identifications and sketchy images of new societies (41-61). II. Analyzing political speeches and debates: Norman Fairclough: The discourse of social exclusion (65-83); Teun A. van Dijk: On the analysis of parliamentary debates on immigration (85-104); Ineke van der Valk: Interruptions in French parliamentary debates on immigration (105-128); Jessika ter Wal: Comparing argumentation and counter-argumentation in Italian parliamentary debate on immigration (129-154). III. Language policies, linguistic imperialism and "linguoracism": Robert Phillipson: English as an exclusionary language (157-176); Bessie Dendrinos: Linguoracism in European foreign language education discourse (177-198); Martin Reisigl: Cuius ops, eius lingua. Forms of linguistic imperialism (199-219). IV. Analyzing political discourse in the media: Gerlinde Mautner: "Deutschland über alles - and we are part of 'alles'". Anti-German rhetoric in British EU discourse (223-236); Erzébet Barát: "Are you an alien?" Discourse of discrimination in the Hungarian political discourse (237-268); Martin Reisigl / Ruth Wodak: "Austria first". A discourse-historical analysis of the Austrian "anti-foreigner-petition" in 1992 and 1993 (269-303); Lilie Chouliaraki: National identities in Late Modernity. A case study of audience reception (305-330). V. Visual Racism: Theo van Leeuwen: Visual racism (333-350); Frank Stern: The "Semitic" gaze from the screen - Cinematic discourse of the other (351-362); Kati Vörös: "Judapest" satirized: visual images of Jews in satirical magazines in Fin-de-Siècle Budapest (363-289).