Full Description
Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centred approach to unfamiliar, marginalized or otherwise disadvantaged discourses of the Third World or the Global South. Written by leading researchers based in Asia, Africa and Latin America, respectively, this book reconstructs Eastern paradigms of communication studies on the one hand and explores the discursive problems, complexities, aspirations, and dynamics of the non-Western, subaltern, and developing societies on the other. As methodological principles, the authors i) adopt the cultural-political stance of supporting cultural diversity and harmony at both academic and everyday levels, ii) draw upon Asian, African and Latino scholarship in critical dialogue with the existing mainstream traditions, and iii) make sense of the discourses of Asia, Africa and Latin America from their own local as well as global, historical and intercultural, perspectives. This book will particularly appeal to scholars and students in the fields of discourse studies, communication and cultural studies, and development studies.
Contents
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
