Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China write by Linda Tsung. This book was released on 2015-10-09. Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Significant socio-political changes in China have had great impact on Chinese discourse. Changes to the discourse have become an increasing focus of scholarship. This book examines contemporary Chinese discourse and social practice in China with a focus on the role that language plays in the on-going transformation of Chinese society. With a view to producing new insights into the interdependence between discourse and social practice, this volume explores how discourse has been changing in a context-dependent way; how social practice can lead to shifts in the use of discourse; and how identities and attitudes are constructed through language use. Largely based on empirical studies, this book indicates that Chinese discourse has not only been an integral part of social change, but also Chinese discourse itself is changing, reflecting ideologies, values, attitudes, identities and social practice. The book is a great resource for scholars in diverse disciplinary studies including linguistics, communication, education, media and political studies concerning contemporary China.
Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China
Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China write by Paul Anthony Chilton. This book was released on 2012. Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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).
Chinese Discourse Studies
Chinese Discourse Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Discourse Studies write by S. xu. This book was released on 2014-10-08. Chinese Discourse Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chinese Discourse Studies presents an innovative and systematic approach to discourse and communication in contemporary China. Incorporating Chinese philosophy and theory, it offers not only a distinct cultural paradigm in the field, but also a culturally sensitive and effective tool for studying Chinese discourses.
Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China
Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China write by Qing Cao. This book was released on 2014-04-23. Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and doing things, has become an indispensable instrument for the authority to manage a fluid, increasingly fragmented, but highly dynamic and yet fragile society. Written by an international team of leading scholars, this volume examines socio-political transformations of contemporary Chinese society through a systematic account, analysis and assessment of its salient discourses and their production, circulation, negotiation, and consequences. In particular, the volume focuses on the interplay of politics and media. The book’s intended readership is academics and students of Chinese studies, language and discourse, and media and communication studies.
Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China
Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China write by Shuyu Kong. This book was released on 2014-03-14. Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the early 1990s the media and cultural fields in China have become increasingly commercialized, resulting in a massive boom in the cultural and entertainment industries. This evolution has also brought about fundamental changes in media behaviour and communication, and the enormous growth of entertainment culture and the extensive penetration of new media into the everyday lives of Chinese people. Against the backdrop of the rapid development of China’s media industry and the huge growth in social media, this book explores the emotional content and public discourse of popular media in contemporary China. It examines the production and consumption of blockbuster films, television dramas, entertainment television shows, and their corresponding online audience responses, and describes the affective articulations generated by cultural and media texts, audiences and social contexts. Crucially, this book focuses on the agency of audiences in consuming these media products, and the affective communications taking place in this process in order to address how and why popular culture and entertainment programs exert so much power over mass audiences in China. Indeed, Shuyu Kong shows how Chinese people have sought to make sense of the dramatic historical changes of the past three decades through their engagement with popular media, and how this process has created a cultural public sphere where social communication and public discourse can be launched and debated in aesthetic and emotional terms. Based on case studies that range from television drama to blockbuster films, and reality television programmes to social media sites, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese culture and society, media and communication studies, film studies and television studies.
