Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China
Produktdetaljer
Every polity has its political language, often opaque to those outside the policy world, yet something which analysts need to construe. None more so than China's, where the world's oldest tradition of statecraft has been infused with communist discourse and is being further injected with the jargon of market liberalism. Understanding this lore is essential to interpreting the country's political direction and its leaders' rationalisations. These scholars have given us invaluable multidisciplinary exegeses of many aspects of this fascinating subject.
- Hugo de Burgh, University of Westminster / Tsinghua University,
<i>Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China</i> offers a radical, innovative and timely analysis of the production and flow of discourses in modern China. Drawing together a wide range of perspectives from a team of renowned international scholars, this volume is an important contribution to our understanding of how communications, the media and politics interact with, and impact on each other in the PRC.
- Gary Rawnsley, University of Aberystwyth, UK,
This edited volume presents an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of China’s socio-political transformations through the lens of CDA. Covering a wide range of topics, the volume effectively demonstrates the complexity of political and media discourses in contemporary China and offers a systematic account of these discourses’ production, circulation, and (potential) implications. Throughout the volume, the legitimization effect of discourse has been given special attention and the relevant discussions have made an important contribution to our understanding of how discourse has become a key “battleground” in China’s post-reform era. As such, this volume can be an informative reading for academics and students in communication and media studies, Chinese studies, and language and discourse studies. [...] The volume is ideal reading for academics interested in political and media discourses in contemporary China, and it can be useful recommended reading for related graduate courses as well.
- Sibo Chen, Simon Fraser University, on Linguist List 26.405, 21 January 2015,
This volume might be taken as a useful reference for researchers and students interested in CDA, media and communication studies, politics and studies of contemporary China.
- Yunhua Xiang, Jilin University, in Journal of Language and Politics 16:6 (2017),
This book is to be welcomed as a contribution to elucidating important discursive aspects of the major transformations which are taking place in China.
- Norman Fairclough, Lancaster University,
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