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 Chilton. This book was released on 2012-09-05. 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).
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.
Contemporary Chinese Discourse and Social Practice in China
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.
Multimodal Chinese Discourse
Multimodal Chinese Discourse - 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 Multimodal Chinese Discourse write by Dezheng (William) Feng. This book was released on 2023-04-12. Multimodal Chinese Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book helps readers to understand communication and society in contemporary China through systematic analysis of multimodal discourse at the national, institutional and individual levels. China has undergone profound changes during the past decade or so. Politically, the Chinese government has been more proactive in domestic governance and foreign policies, as manifested in the Chinese Dream campaign and the national image publicity films respectively. Hand in hand with the socio-political change is the rapid development of new media, which has been changing how corporates do business, how institutions brand their images, as well as how individuals construct their identities and social relations. These changes have brought about significant changes to the discursive practices at the national, institutional and individual levels, characterized by the extensive use of multimodal resources and distinct promotional purposes. Feng systematically investigates and discusses the new discursive features in relation to relevant socio-cultural contexts. The analysis and discussion provide researchers with a social semiotic perspective on various aspects of communicative and social changes in contemporary China. The book also contributes to the growing field of multimodality by developing a set of cross-disciplinary analytical frameworks to deal with complex discourse forms in print media, moving images, and new media. The research findings provide a unique Chinese perspective on a broad spectrum of issues such as discursive governance, nation branding, university marketization, and identity performance. The book is relevant not only to discourse analysis and multimodality, but also to other disciplines which will benefit from a systematic understanding of Chinese discourse, such as cultural studies, communication studies and area/China studies.
Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China
Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era 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 Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China write by Tian Yu Cao. This book was released on 2010. Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the face of rapid and radical social changes since the late 1970s, contemporary China faces tremendous challenges. What is China transforming toward? What are the ideological positions and, more generally, cultural values that inform, question, and demand critical assessment of the social transformations in the reform era? This collection of essays aims at addressing these questions. Written by some of the leading intellectuals and thinkers in and outside of contemporary China, the essays, in different ways, examine the extent to which three major cultural resources, namely traditional, May Fourth, and socialist, have been (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and mobilized to address the challenges brought about by the changed and changing social and economic conditions of the reform era.
