Chinese Discourse Studies

by xu, Shi-

• ISBN13: 9781137365033
• ISBN10: 113736503X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-10-22
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Chinese Discourse Studies presents a culturally innovative approach to discourse and communication. Incorporating Chinese cultural and intellectual wisdom, it constructs a systematic paradigm of discourse studies, complete with distinct philosophy, theory, methodology and agenda. Further, the volume illustrates the use of the new paradigm by making empirical studies of Chinese discourses of human rights, trade friction and urban development. The book unpacks culturally critical implications for understanding and researching human communication, rendering itself an invaluable resource for students and scholars of discourse, media, culture, as well as contemporary China.

Author Biography

Shi-xu is Changjiang Distinguished Professor, Director of the Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies, Zhejiang University, China. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses and General Editor of Cultural Discourse Studies Series. His books in English include: Cultural Representations, A Cultural Approach to Discourse, Read the Cultural Other (lead-editor), Discourse as Struggle (editor), Discourse and Culture.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: De-Westernising Discourse Analysis
PART I: PARADIGMATIC CONSTRUCTION
1. Cultural Discourse Studies
2. Eastern Discourse Studies
3. Chinese Discourse Studies
PART II: DISCOURSES OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA
4. Discourse and Human Rights
5. Discourse and Trade Disputes
6. Discourse and Urban Development
Epilogue: Agenda, Dialogue and Practice