1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996385365803316

Autore

Corneille Pierre <1606-1684.>

Titolo

Pompey the Great [[electronic resource] ] : a tragedy as it was acted by the servants of His Royal Highness the Duke of York / / translated out of French by certain persons of honour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Henry Herringman ..., 1664

Descrizione fisica

[4], 54, [3] p

Altri autori (Persone)

WallerEdmund <1606-1687.>

DorsetCharles Sackville, Earl of,  <1638?-1706.>

SedleyCharles, Sir,  <1639?-1701.>

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A translation of Corneille's "La mort de Pompée", by Waller, the Earl of Dorset, Sir Charles Sedley and perhaps others.

Cf. Catalogue of the library of J.H. Wrenn. 1920, v. 5, p. 91-92.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962075503321

Titolo

Discourse and socio-political transformations in contemporary China / / edited by Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian, Ruth Wodak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012

ISBN

9781283902298

128390229X

9789027273789

9027273782

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Collana

Benjamins current topics ; ; v. 42

Altri autori (Persone)

ChiltonPaul A (Paul Anthony)

TianHailong

WodakRuth <1950->

Disciplina

401/.410951

Soggetti

Discourse analysis - Political aspects - China

Communication - Political aspects - China

Communication - Social aspects - China

Social change - China - 21st century

China Social life and customs 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West; Being "critical" in the West; Being "critical" in China; A "colonising" recontextualization?; Concluding note; Notes; References; The discursive construction of the social stratification order in reforming China; 1. Introduction; 2. The changing Chinese social stratification order: past and present; 3. Theoretical anchorage: NHD perspective in combination with critical discourse theory

3.1 Discursive insights of critical discourse theory 3.2 Notions of meta-discourse and entextualization in NHD; 4. The dominant metadiscourses in reforming China; 4.1 Metadiscourse of 'bringing order out of chaos'; 4.2 Metadiscourse of "Building socialism with Chinese characteristics"; The strategic target; Transformation from



planned to market economy; 4.3 Metadiscourse of "three represents"; Diversifying the forms of ownership; 4.4 Metadiscourse of "harmonious society"; 5. Conclusion; Notes; References; Institutional language as power in contemporary China; 1. Introduction; 2. Data collection

3. Enacting power through language 3.1 Power from many accented words; 3.2 Power from topic control; 3.3 Power from closed questions; 3.4 Power from rhetorical questions (I); 3.5 Power from rhetorical questions (II); 3.6 Power from tag questions; 3.7 Power from the construction of professionally illegitimate relationship; 3.8 Power from Unchecked Blaming; 3.9 Power from use of power-laden Pet Phrases; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgment; Note; References; A cultural political economy of transnational knowledge brands; 1. Introduction

2. The theoretical contexts of cultural political economy 3. Three stages in the development of the cultures of "competitiveness"; 3. Recontextualization of Knowledge Brands to Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta since the 1990's; 3.1 The changing global-national-regional contexts; 3.2 First discursive-strategic moment: Hong Kong's 'hollowing-out' debate and knowledge brands; 3.3 The hegemony of a broader global-local service bloc; 3.4 Second discursive-strategic moment: The transborderization of the Harvard brand to the PRD; 4. Conclusion; Notes; References

Discursive production of teaching quality assessment report1. Introduction; 2. Critical discourse analysis; 2.1 Dynamics of power relations; 2.2 CDA methodology; 3. The data; 3.1 TQA practice; 3.2 TQA report; 4. Discursive strategies; 4.1 Deploying institutional power; 4.2 Incorporating a promotional genre; 4.3 Entextualising assessed topics; 5. Conclusion; Note; References; Discursive construction of Chinese foreign policy; 1. Introduction; 2. Literature review; 3. The AWR and its FPS; 4. Theoretical framework and analytical methods; 4.1 CDA and foreign policy studies

4.2 Discourse practice as a social practice and cognitive process

Sommario/riassunto

China's opening up to the West, its extraordinary economic rise, and the subsequent internal and global issues, are an object of huge interest and concern. Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China focuses on one aspect of the contemporary Chinese phenomenon, one that is so obvious that it is generally ignored in the mainstream academic departments - that politics, society and transformation are the product of myriad collective linguistic interchanges, some stabilized, some competing, some agonistic, some new and emerging.As an outcome of dialogue between