1. Acknowledgements; 2. Part I. Introduction; 3. Political discourse in the media: Cross-cultural perspectives (by Lauerbach, Gerda Eva); 4. Part II. From linguistic device to discourse practice; 5. Presupposition and 'taking-for-granted' in mass communicated political argument. An illustration from British, Flemish and Swedish political colloquy (by Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie); 6. Metaphors in election night television coverage in Britain, the United States and Germany (by Scheithauer, Rut); 7. Part III. Discursive practice in political interviews; 8. "Are you saying ...?" A cross-cultural analysis of interviewing practices in TV election night coverages (by Becker, Annette); 9. Represented discourse in answers: A cross-cultural perspective on French and British political interviews (by Johansson, Marjut); 10. Challenges in political interviews: An intercultural analysis (by Fetzer, Anita); 11. Variation in interviewing styles: Challenge and support in Al-Jazeera and on Israeli television (by Weizman, Elda); 12. Part IV. Media events: From public address to election nights; 13. Christmas Messages by heads of state: Multimodality and media adaptations (by Sauer, Christoph); 14. Information meets entertainment: a visual analysis of election night TV programs across cultures (by Schiess, Raimund); 15. Presenting television election nights in Britain, the United States and Germany: Cross-cultural analyses (by Lauerbach, Gerda Eva); 16. Index

One of the most attractive aspects of this collection of nine articles is the way they deal with the 'global in the local'. In our multi-cultural world, we have to understand that cultures no longer can be identified with any homogeneous speech community, nor can culture be limited to any particular, well-defined territory. It is precisely where Fetzer & Lauerbach's volume has its force: by analyzing political discourse in the media, the authors and editors open up new vistas on the vexing problem of the intra- vs. the inter-cultural. Doing this, they contribute to the current debates on these issues.