05844nam 2200733Ia 450 991046546180332120200520144314.01-283-90229-X90-272-7378-2(CKB)2560000000093323(EBL)1000331(OCoLC)811138975(SSID)ssj0000720421(PQKBManifestationID)12245706(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720421(PQKBWorkID)10669179(PQKB)11255484(MiAaPQ)EBC1000331(Au-PeEL)EBL1000331(CaPaEBR)ebr10593820(CaONFJC)MIL421479(EXLCZ)99256000000009332320120328d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDiscourse and socio-political transformations in contemporary China[electronic resource] /edited by Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian, Ruth WodakAmsterdam ;Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.20121 online resource (160 p.)Benjamins current topics ;v. 42Description based upon print version of record.90-272-0261-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 theory3.1 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 collection3. 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. Introduction2. 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; ReferencesDiscursive 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 studies4.2 Discourse practice as a social practice and cognitive processChina'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 betweenBenjamins Current TopicsDiscourse analysisPolitical aspectsChinaCommunicationPolitical aspectsChinaCommunicationSocial aspectsChinaSocial changeChina21st centuryChinaSocial life and customs21st centuryElectronic books.Discourse analysisPolitical aspectsCommunicationPolitical aspectsCommunicationSocial aspectsSocial change401/.410951Chilton Paul A(Paul Anthony)254099Tian Hailong993407Wodak Ruth1950-171989MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465461803321Discourse and socio-political transformations in contemporary China2274617UNINA