Routledge Studies in Chinese Discourse Analysis aims to examine Chinese discourse from a variety of angles, including linguistic, semiotic, philosophical, sociocultural, literary, political, technological, psychological and neurocognitive perspectives. It aims to study Chinese discourse with rigorous and state-of-the-art research methods in order to reveal not only linguistic principles but also ideological and environmental factors working at the background that help create the text in different discourse settings. This series is the first well organised attempt to map out the Chinese language at the discourse level that offers much richer interpretation of words and sentences than existing discussions limited to structures of sounds, words and sentences. By using cutting-edge research methodologies such as multimodal analysis, critical analysis, ethnography of communication, corpus-based analysis, and various newly developed linguistic, literary, neurocognitive and computational methods, the series hopes to uncover many secrets of the multifaceted Chinese discourse that can lead to better understanding of the Chinese world as a whole and the individuality of different Chinese communities from around the globe. The series is not just about language; it is more concerned with the use of language in both historical and contemporary settings. The research findings presented in this series will be significant not only to the linguistics discipline, but also to the wider subjects of arts and humanities and social sciences, as well as many scientific disciplines that will benefit from a deeper understanding of Chinese discourse that is intimately connected to its creator, audience and environment that give it a life behind and beyond the form it takes.
By Kerry Sluchinski
December 22, 2023
Inclusivity and Belonging in Chinese Discourse explores how recent language change in the third person pronoun system of Mandarin Chinese is harnessed by netizens to construct spaces of (non-) belonging along a fluid continuum in the context of pro and anti LGBTQ discourses. Grounded in stance, ...
By Weixiao Wei
November 23, 2023
Notional Analysis of Chinese Academic Discourse on China presents an executive summary of Chinese academic discourse about China’s progress and achievements in the past one hundred years. Using a scientometric method to analyze bibliographic records retrieved from the largest library database in ...
By Damien Ng
September 25, 2023
This book explores China’s currency wars with its trading partners in four Western newsmagazines: Time, The Economist, L’Express, and Der Spiegel. Based on both quantitative and qualitative approaches, the interdisciplinary approach adopted in the research draws on two analytical frameworks from ...
By Kawai Chui
September 25, 2023
Language and Gesture in Chinese Conversation is a study of the semantic and temporal relationships between the speech and the gesture in the context of discourse interaction in Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan. The cross-modal representation of ideas in natural discourse reveals the nature of ...
By Hsin-fu Chiu
May 31, 2023
The monograph provides ethnographically informed analyses of indigenous kin interactions in three Chinese diasporic households in the county of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Drawing upon the approach that regards talk as a form of social practice, the book demonstrates different ways in which kin...
By Qing Cao
January 31, 2023
The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China investigates the linguistic and intellectual roots of China’s modern transformation by presenting a systematic study of the interplay between language innovation and socio-political upheavals in the final decade of the Qing Dynasty. This ...
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By Weixiao Wei
September 26, 2022
China's Contemporary Image and Rhetoric Practice presents an overview of Chinese diplomatic rhetoric, exploring how the image of China is depicted through a Western lens and introducing a profound shift in domestic perspectives of this image. This reader reveals new sites for Chinese rhetoric to ...
By Weixiao Wei
July 22, 2022
This book challenges the existing misconception that there was no rhetoric in ancient China. Instead, this book provides ample evidence from public speeches in the Xia dynasty and oracle bone inscriptions in the Shang dynasty to public debates about government policies in the Han dynasty to show ...
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By Nancy Xiuzhi Liu, Candace Veecock, Shixin Ivy Zhang
June 17, 2021
As a country in transition, Chinese news discourse has quite distinctive characteristics, and more so given the power of state media in society. With China’s engagement in world affairs and its massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) now in place, Western media coverage of China has dramatically ...
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By Chris Shei
March 02, 2021
Taiwan: Manipulation of Ideology and Struggle for Identity chronicles the turbulent relationship between Taiwan and China. This collection of essays aims to provide a critical analysis of the discourses surrounding the identity of Taiwan, its relationship with China, and global debates about Taiwan...
By Nancy Liu
November 08, 2018
News Framing Through English-Chinese Translation provides a useful tool to depict how Chinese news translation can be examined in the era of globalization. The author has integrated framing theory in journalism studies with translation studies and developed a new theoretical model/framework named ...