Shi-Xu critiques ethnocentrism in discourse studies in terms of its intellectual and cultural consequences. He outlines a culturally pluralist stance that advocates the construction of theory and use of methodology from an innovativeposition in-between Eastern and Western cultures. INDICE: Preface and Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART I: THEORY AND METHODOLOGY - Discourse and Reality - Discourse and Culture - Political Ethnography - PART II: PRACTICAL STUDIES - Deconstructing the Other Place - Reading Non-Western Discourses - Fanning the Sparks of Hope from History - Promoting New Discourses of the Other - Notes - References - Author Index - Subject Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57762-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 23/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés