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In response to the cultural challenges in society and scholarship, this Handbook presents the conceptions, assumptions, principles, methods, topics and issues in the studies of cultural forms of human communication - cultural discourses - by experts from around the world.
List of contents
Introduction PART I: Philosophical Foundations 1. Cultural Discourse Studies: A culturalist approach to communication 2. Representing Discourse Studies: The unequal actors of an international and multidisciplinary field 3. Asiacentricity and the Field of Asian Communication Theory: Today and Tomorrow 4. Intercultural Communication and Interactions: A History and Critique 5. Entangling the discursive and the material PART II: Theoretical Developments 6. Situating and Unwinding “Intercultural Struggles” in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 7. Transcultural Communication 8. Biculturalism and Bicultural Identity Negotiation 9. Gender, Culture, and Emancipation: A Paradigmatic Outline of Asiacentric Womanism 10. Contemporary Chinese discourse in times of GLOBAL turbulence: Reconstructing cultural capacity and crafting international strategy 11. Ethnic media in multicultural Russian society: A Cultural Discourse Studies approach 12. A Cultural Discourse Called Science 13. Freedom Discourse PART III: Methodological Considerations 14. Infusing “Spirit” Into the “Power/Other” Dialectic and Dialogue 15. Analysing Multimodal Cultural Discourse: Scope and Method 16. Cultural Discourse Analysis as a Methodology for the Study of Intercultural Contact and Circulation 17. Cultural Discourse Analysis: Discourse Hubs as Heuristic Devices 18. Understanding social justice in language teacher education from a Freirean Southern decolonial perspective PART IV: Empirical Explorations 19. Trust in Language: Exploring the Speech-Action Nexus 20. Hate speech we live by 21. Anonymity and radicalisation in Argentinian social media: Identity as a strategy for political dispute 22. Where Neoliberal and Confucian Discourses Meet: The case of female fitness influencers on Chinese social media 23. Recontextualizing Global Warming as Opportunity: On not seeing the trees for the forest 24. (Re)location of discourses in institutional space 25. The normalisation of impoliteness in political dialogue: Latin America, Spain and the USA 26. Duality of Facework in Hotel Responses of Shanghai and London to Negative Online Reviews: A Transculturality Proposal 27. Beyond the “one-key-to-the-universe view”: Expanding critical perspectives in Cultural Discourse Studies 28. The Harmonization of African Orthographic Conventions: The CASAS Experience
About the author
Shi-xu is Changjiang Distinguished Professor and Director of the School for Contemporary Chinese Communication Studies at Hangzhou Normal University, China. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Routledge, ESCI) and General Editor of the Cultural Discourse Studies Series (Routledge). His books in English include Cultural Representations (1997), A Cultural Approach to Discourse (2005), Read the Cultural Other (as lead editor) (2005), Discourse as Cultural Struggle (as editor) (2007), Discourse and Culture (2013), Chinese Discourse Studies (2014) and Discourses of the Developing World (2015).
Summary
In response to the cultural challenges in society and scholarship, this Handbook presents the conceptions, assumptions, principles, methods, topics and issues in the studies of cultural forms of human communication - cultural discourses - by experts from around the world.
