Shi-Xu, Kwesi Kwaa Prah, María Pardo

Discourses of the Developing World (eBook, ePUB)

Researching properties, problems and potentials

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Against the large body of discourse scholarship from the Western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centred approach to unfamiliar, marginalised or otherwise disadvantaged discourses of the Third world or the global South.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317702542
• Artikelnr.: 44980019

Autorenporträt

Shi-xu is Changjiang Distinguished Professor, founding Director of the Centre for Discourse and Cultural Studies, Hangzhou Normal University, China. He is founding and former Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies, Zhejiang University, China and has held teaching posts in the Netherlands, the UK and Singapore.

Kwesi Kwaa Prah is Professor Emeritus in Sociology of the University of the Western Cape. He is founder and former Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) based in Cape Town, South Africa.

María Laura Pardo is Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Director of the Department of Linguistics at the Philosophical and Cultural Anthropology Research Centre (CIAFIC-CONICET), Professor of Analysis of the Languages of the Mass Media at the Faculty of Arts, University of Buenos Aires.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Part I: Asian Discourse Studies 1. Asian Discourse for Development
2. Contemporary Chinese Communication from a Cultural-Psychological
Perspective 3. International City Branding as Intercultural Discourse:
Workplace, development and globalization Part II: African Discourse Studies
4. A Discourse on the Usage of African Languages for Scientific and
Technological Education and Development 5. The Role of Language and
Literacy in the Acquisition of Knowledge: The African context 6. Language
Policies and Power Dynamics in Africa: Problems linked to linguistic
policies and power relations within countries as well as between countries
Part III: Latin American Discourse Studies 7. Latin-American
Cultural-Critical Studies 8. Culture and Political Challenges: Television
narratives AOUT the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas/Falklands War 9.
Modernity, Postmodernity, Culture and Representations of Work in the
Discourse of the Argentine Extremely Poor Epilogue