ISBN:
9780582328808
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (366 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Language In Social Life
Parallel Title:
Print version Knowledge & Discourse : Towards an Ecology of Language
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 makes connections between subjective experiences as people construct meaning and action.This book offers the reader a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of language as discourse, question
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Publisher's Acknowledgements; Introduction: Knowledge and discourse: towards an ecology of language; 1 Prologue: Language and linguistics/Discourse and disciplinarity; Part I Reflexive Practices; Introduction to Part I: The discourse of selfhood; 2 Stranded between the 'posts': Sensory experience and immigrant female subjectivity; 3 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 China
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Producing new Asian masculinitiesPart II Social Practices; Introduction to Part II: The dialectic of authentic and inauthentic discourses; 6 Chinese officialdom (Guan) at work in discourse; 7 Discourse of silence: Intermeshing networks of old and new colonialists; 8 Interactions between Thai male sex workers and their customers; 9 Media mythologies: Legends, 'local facts' and triad discourse; Part III Professional and Academic Practices; Introduction to Part III: The inspiration of inequalities; 10 The linguistic construction of gender and ideology in judicial discourse
Description / Table of Contents:
11 The domestication of rhetoric - Translating Western economic ideology to Hong Kong12 The role of language and culture within the accountancy workplace; 13 Social and interpersonal perspectives on scientific discourse; 14 Becoming a psychologist: Student voices on academic writing in psychology; 15 Fixed and flexible framing: Literacy events across cultures; 16 Teaching and learning in Cantonese and English: Multilingual classroom practices and equity in education; Coda; 17 Intercultural communication and ethnography: Why? and why not?; References; Index (word and phrase)
Description / Table of Contents:
Index (writer names)
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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