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Knowledge & Discourse Towards an Ecology of Language
366 Pages
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Routledge
366 Pages
by
Routledge
366 Pages
by
Routledge
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Knowledge and Discourse presents an ecological approach to the study of discourse in social, academic and professional practices. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse cultures - India, China, Australia, Canada among others - and disciplines - linguistics, anthropology, sociology, philosophy. The chapters collectively illustrate the ecological approach by exploring how language... Read more
1. ProloguePART I. REFELCTIVE PRACTICES2. Stranded between the 'posts': Sensory experience and immigrant female subjectivity3. Feminist consciousness and the ruling relations 4. Telling true stories, writing fictions, doing ethnography at century's end: Stories of subjectivity and care from urban China5. Producing new Asian masculinitiesPART II. SOCIAL PRACTICES6. Chinese officialdom (Guan) at work in discourse7. Discourse of silence: Intermeshing networks of old and new colonialists8. Interactions between Thai male sex workers and their customers9. Media mythologies: Legends, 'local facts' and triad discoursePART III: PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC PRACTICES10. The linguistic construction of gender and ideology in judicial discourse11. The domestication of rhetoric - Translating Western economic ideology to Hong Kong12. The role of language and culture within the accountancy workplace13. Social and interpersonal perspectives on scientific discourse14. Becoming a psychologist: Student voices on academic writing in psychology15. Fixed and flexible framing: Literacy events across cultures16. Teaching and learning in Cantonese and English: Multilingual classroom practices and equity in education17. Intercultural communication and ethnography: Why? and why not?
Biography
Colin Barron, Nigel Bruce and David Nunan are all based at the English Centre, Hong Kong University.
