Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-0261-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 42, 150 Seiten, Gewicht: 450 g

Reihe: Benjamins Current Topics

China’s opening up to the West, its extraordinary economic rise, and the subsequent internal and global issues, are an object of huge interest and concern. Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China focuses on one aspect of the contemporary Chinese phenomenon, one that is so obvious that it is generally ignored in the mainstream academic departments – that politics, society and transformation are the product of myriad collective linguistic interchanges, some stabilized, some competing, some agonistic, some new and emerging.
As an outcome of dialogue between Chinese and Western scholars, the present volume contains case studies that offer a survey of the discourse aspect of Chinese society in social stratification, government service, policy consultancy, higher education, foreign policy, and TV. The conceptual reflections on discourse and critique in different cultures offer new considerations for discourse analysis, including critical discourse analysis, in the context of Chinese society today.
This volume was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 9:4 (2010).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chilton, Paul

Tian, Hailong

Wodak, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak

Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West
Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak

The discursive construction of the social stratification order in reforming China
Qing Zhang

Institutional language as power in contemporary China: Interaction between officials and visitors in government service offices
Yi Li

A cultural political economy of transnational knowledge brands: Porterian “competitiveness” discourse and ist recontextualization in Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta
Ngai-Ling Sum

Discursive production of teaching quality assessment report: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Hailong Tian

Discursive construction of Chinese foreign policy: A diachronic analysis of the Chinese government’s Annual Work Report to the NPC
Zeshun You, Jianping Chen and Zhong-Hong

The re-imagined West in Chinese television: A case study of the CCTV documentary series the Rise of the Great Powers
Qing Cao

Book review

Tian, Hailong. Discourse Studies: Categories, Perspectives and Methodologies
Reviewed by Peng Zhao

Index