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).
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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. This title focuses on one aspect of the contemporary Chinese phenomenon, one that is so obvious that it is generally ignored in the mainstream academic departments.
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1. Preface (by Chilton, Paul); 2. Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West (by Chilton, Paul); 3. The discursive construction of the social stratification order in reforming China (by Zhang, Qing); 4. Institutional language as power in contemporary China: Interaction between officials and visitors in government service offices (by Li, Yi); 5. A cultural political economy of transnational knowledge brands: Porterian "competitiveness" discourse and its recontextualization in Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta (by Sum, Ngai-Ling); 6. Discursive production of teaching quality assessment report: A Critical Discourse Analysis (by Tian, Hailong); 7. Discursive construction of Chinese foreign policy: A diachronic analysis of the Chinese government's Annual Work Report to the NPC (by You, Zeshun); 8. The re-imagined West in Chinese television: A case study of the CCTV documentary series the Rise of the Great Powers (by Cao, Qing); 9. Book review; 10. Tian, Hailong. Discourse Studies: Categories, Perspectives and Methodologies (by Zhao, Peng); 11. Index
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This volume opens up an important and enlightening dialogue between Western and Chinese scholars on the applicability of critical discourse analysis in China.

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9789027202611
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2012-09-05
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John Benjamins Publishing Co
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450 gr
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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