In response to the cultural challenges in society and scholarship, this handbook presents the conceptions, assumptions, principles, methods, topics and issues in the studies of cultural forms of human communication—cultural discourses—by experts from around the world.
A culturalist programme in communication studies (CS), cultural discourse studies (CDS), as represented in this handbook, is a new current of thought in human and social science and a form of academic activism, but above all, it is a fresh paradigm of research committed to enhancing cultural harmony and prosperity on the one hand and facilitating intellectual plurality and innovation on the other hand. This handbook is the first of its kind; it is concerned with the identities of, and interactions between, the world’s diverse cultural communities through locally-grounded and globally-minded, culturally conscious and critical approaches to their communicative practice. Contributors apply such insights, precepts and techniques, not merely to discover and describe past and present communication, but also to design and guide future communication.
This handbook is ideal for scholars and students interested in cultural aspects and issues of communication/discourse, as well as researchers of other fields looking to apply cultural discourse methods to their own projects.
Introduction
PART I: Philosophical Foundations
1. Cultural Discourse Studies
Shi-xu
2. Representing Discourse Studies: The unequal actors of an international and multidisciplinary field
Johannes Angermuller
3. Asiacentricity and the Field of Asian Communication Theory: Today and Tomorrow
Yoshitaka Miike
4. Intercultural Communication and Interactions: A History and Critique
Hamid Mowlana
5. Entangling the discursive and the material
Nico Carpentier
PART II: Theoretical Developments
6. Situating and Unwinding “Intercultural Struggles” in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies
Rona Tamiko Halualani
7. Transcultural Communication
Will Backer
8. Biculturalism and Bicultural Identity Negotiation
Shuang Liu and Cindy Gallois
9. Gender, Culture, and Emancipation: A Paradigmatic Outline of Asiacentric Womanism
Jing Yin
10. Contemporary Chinese discourse in times of world turbulence: Reconstructing cultural capacity and crafting global strategy
Shi-xu
11. Ethnic media in multicultural Russian society: A Cultural Discourse Studies approach
Anna Gladkova and Elena Vartanova
12. A Cultural Discourse Called Science
Ringo Ossewaarde
13. Freedom Discourse
Manfred Kienpointner
PART III: Methodological Considerations
14. Infusing “Spirit” Into the “Power/Other” Dialectic and Dialogue
Ronald D. Gordon
15. Analysing Multimodal Cultural Discourse: Scope and Method
Dezheng Feng and Yilei Wang
16. Cultural Discourse Analysis as a Methodology for the Study of Intercultural Contact and Circulation
David Boromisza-Habashi
17. Cultural Discourse Analysis: Discourse Hubs as Heuristic Devices
Donal Carbaugh, Trudy Milburn, Michelle Scollo and Brion van Over
18. Understanding social justice in language teacher education from a Freirean Southern decolonial perspective
Nara Hiroko Takaki
PART IV: Empirical Explorations
19. Trust in Language: Exploring the Speech-Action Nexus
Tamar Katriel
20. Hate speech we live by
María Laura Pardo
21. Anonymity and radicalisation in Argentinian social media: Identity as a strategy for political dispute
Dra. Valentina Noblía
22. Where Neoliberal and Confucian Discourses Meet: The case of female fitness influencers on Chinese social media
Gwen Bouvier
23. Recontextualizing Global Warming as Opportunity: On not seeing the trees for the forest
Ian Roderick
24. (Re)location of discourses in institutional space
Isolda E. Carranza
25. The normalisation of impoliteness in political dialogue: Latin America, Spain and the USA
Adriana Bolívar
26. Duality of Facework in Hotel Responses of Shanghai and London to Negative Online Reviews: A Transculturality Proposal
Doreen D. Wu, Kaiming Su and Xueliu Wang
27. Beyond the “one-key-to-the-universe view”: Expanding critical perspectives in Cultural Discourse Studies
Walkyria Monte Mor
28. The Harmonization of African Orthographic Conventions: The CASAS Experience
Kwesi Kwaa Prah
Biography
Shi-xu is Changjiang Distinguished Professor and Director of the School for Contemporary Chinese Communication Studies at Hangzhou Normal University, China. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Routledge, ESCI) and General Editor of the Cultural Discourse Studies Series (Routledge). His books in English include Cultural Representations (1997), A Cultural Approach to Discourse (2005), Read the Cultural Other (as lead editor) (2005), Discourse as Cultural Struggle (as editor) (2007), Discourse and Culture (2013), Chinese Discourse Studies (2014) and Discourses of the Developing World (2015).
Cultural Discourse Studies is a field committed to locally grounded research and critical engagement with human communication as a global system of diverse cultural discourses enmeshed in unequal relations of power. The globally diverse contributions to this handbook exemplify that commitment while advancing the field in many important ways.
Robert T. Craig, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Cultural Discourse Studies is a remarkable edited collection certain to shape the field of communication powerfully. The book is theoretically sophisticated, wholly imaginative, and more importantly exactly what we need to read right now to improve the world. Cynicism, insults, and oppression harm the ability for humans to cooperate; Cultural Discourse courageously seeks to improve the conversation, steering it toward more healthy dialogues and outcomes. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to live in a world where people get along!
Kent A. Ono, University of Utah, USA
Shi-xu has assembled a remarkable collection of studies on culture and discourse studies that should be of interest to scholars and students. The book offers a sweeping survey of key concepts and case studies from contributors from around the world. The contributions address classic debates as well as recent cases about the way groups and organizations use discourses to mobilize meaning, as well as the challenges for intercultural communication in a global world. All in all, this is a stimulating book that raises important questions and lays out rich empirical findings.
Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University, USA
Of all the fields of Discourse Studies, Cultural Discourse Studies, starting with Dell Hymes in the 1960s, was the first, and, as shown in this much needed Handbook, still is a crucial approach to the study of text and talk all over the world, as is also shown in the selection of topics and the impressive international team organized by the prominent cultural discourse studies scholar Shi-xu.
Teun A. van Dijk, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
The Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies represents an ambitious effort to map out the philosophical underpinnings, theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and empirical challenges faced by humanity as we (fail to) come together to communicate about how to avoid the global existential threats we are facing today.
Ingrid Piller, Macquarie University, Australia
With a wealth of fresh perspectives and innovative case studies, this is an exciting, provocative volume which undoubtedly helps expand the scope of discourse studies.
Crispin Thurlow, University of Bern, Switzerland
