Special Issue: Discourse: multidisciplinary perspectives on identity

This Special Issue is part of an on-going multidisciplinary exploration of discursive approaches to identity. The papers included were selected from the 18 presentations given at a one-day colloquium by the same name that was organised by the editors at the University of Sussex on 18th November 2016. The event whose sub-topic was ‘Reflections on Representation, Identity and/or (Non)Belonging' was the first in a series designed to bring together scholars who use discourse in a variety of disciplines (the next colloquium is planned for 2018). The colloquium attracted both young and well-established discourse analysts and the enthusiasm they showed indicated how timely the initiative was and how much a discussion on interdisciplinarity is needed. Like CADAAD itself, with its emphasis on critical approaches to discourse across disciplines, both the colloquium and the present special issue aim to start a conversation between different areas of knowledge and research and challenge the artificial boundaries between them.