Knowledge and Discoursepresents an ecological approach to the study of discourse in social, academic and professional practices. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse cultures - India, China, Australia, Canada among others - and disciplines - linguistics, anthropology, sociology, philosophy. It collectively illustrates the ecological approach by exploring how language makes connections between subjective experiences as people construct meaning and action.

Colin Barron, Nigel Bruce and David Nunan are all based at the English Centre, Hong Kong University.

List of Contributors

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Publisher's Acknowledgements

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Introduction: Knowledge and discourse: towards an ecology of language

1

(12)

Colin Barron

Nigel Bruce

David Nunan

Prologue: Language and linguistics/Discourse and disciplinarity

13

(16)

Alastair Pennycook

Part I Reflexive Practices

29

(62)

Introduction to Part I: The discourse of selfhood

31

(3)

Stranded between the `posts': Sensory experience and immigrant female subjectivity

34

(15)

Kalpana Ram

Feminist consciousness and the ruling relations

49

(14)

Dorothy Smith

Telling true stories, writing fictions, doing ethnography at century's end: Stories of subjectivity and care from urban China

63

(15)

Joseph Schneider

Wang Laihua

Producing new Asian masculinities

78

(13)

Allan Luke

Part II Social Practices

91

(74)

Introduction to Part II: The dialectic of authentic and inauthentic discourses

93

(4)

Chinese officialdom (Guan) at work in discourse

97

(19)

Yueguo Gu

Weifang Zhu

Discourse of silence: Intermeshing networks of old and new colonialists

116

(17)

Colin Barron

Interactions between Thai male sex workers and their customers

133

(14)

Graeme Storer

Media mythologies: Legends, `local facts' and triad discourse

147

(18)

Kingsley Bolton

Christopher Hutton

Part III Professional and Academic Practices

165

(149)

Introduction to Part III: The inspiration of inequalities

167

(6)

The linguistic construction of gender and ideology in judicial discourse

173

(16)

Chng Huang Hoon

The domestication of rhetoric -- Translating Western economic ideology to Hong Kong

189

(15)

Hui Po-Keung

The role of language and culture within the accountancy workplace

204

(17)

Gail Forey

David Nunan

Social and interpersonal perspectives on scientific discourse

221

(17)

Minna-Riitta Luukka

Becoming a psychologist: Student voices on academic writing in psychology

238

(29)

Guenter A. Plum

Christopher N. Candlin

Fixed and flexible framing: Literacy events across cultures

267

(17)

Ian Malcolm

Teaching and learning in Cantonese and English: Multilingual classroom practices and equity in education

284

(16)

Tara Goldstein

Coda

Intercultural communication and ethnography: Why? and why not?

300

(14)

Ron Scollon

References

314

(24)

Index (word and phrase)

338

(6)

Index (writer names)

344

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