Discourses in search of members : in honor of Ron Scollon / edited by David C.S. Li.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Li, David C. S.

Scollon, Ronald, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Social aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Intercultural communication.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xv, 620 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : University Press of America, [2002]

Summary:

Discourses in Search of Members is a festschrift in honor of Professor Ron Scollon on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday in May, 1999. The 25 contributions, which vary from conventional research based articles to essays to poetic genres, all reflect the significant scholarly influence Professor Ron Scollon has had on his students and colleagues.

Contents:

1. Chats in Alaska with Ron / Gary Snyder 3

2. Looking for the little dog / Helen Frost 5

3. Scenes from skirmishes on the bilingual front / Gary Holthaus 9

4. The language of commerce interprets living systems: Something's lost in the translation / Layne A. Longfellow 35

I. Educational Discourse

5. Cultures of learning: The social construction of educational identities / Martin Cortazzi, Lixian Jin 49

6. Discourses at school / James Paul Gee 79

7. Identity, resistance and resilience: Counter narratives and subaltern voices in Alaskan higher education in 1991 / Perry Gilmore, David Smith 103

8. Duality and continuum in indirect talk: Linguistic style and gender in clinical supervision / Reiko Hayashi, Takuo Hayashi 135

9. "Discourses" that promote new academic identities / Sarah Michaels, Richard Sohmer 171

II. Criticial and Media Studies

10. Language, high-status knowledge, and the double binds in addressing the ecological crisis / C. A. Bowers 223

11. English in Hong Kong at the moment of reversion to Chinese sovereignty / John Flowerdew 233

12. What's news? A comparison of analysis of news production between the qualitative sociological approach and culturalist tradition / Anthony Fung 255

13. Guanxi: Backdoor practice as goal-directed discourse / GU Yueguo 273

14. Genres of symbolic violence: Beauty-contest discourse practices in Hong Kong / Angel M.Y. Lin 299

III. Intercutlural / Interdiscourse Communication

15. "I speak the language of the universe": A universally particularizing native American discourse / Donal Carbaugh 319

16. Tlingit clans and shifting patterns of socio-political discourse / Richard Dauenhauer, Nora Marks Dauenhauer 335

17. Moral work in intercultural communication: Explicit reference to moral norms in German-Chinese interactions / Susanne Gunthner 361

18. On identity and membership in multicultural broadcast interaction / Arja Piirainen-Marsh 393

19. Saa Taaigik: A metaphor for conflict management / Suzanne Scollon, Yuling Pan 423

20. "Gleaning" and the proactive audience: An Athabascan perspective for modern folkloristics / Barre Toelken 451

IV. From Language Learning to Comparative Poetics

21. Expressions of L1 Literacy in L2 Writing / Eli Hinkel 465

22. The use of citations and authorial voice in a genre of Chinese academic discourse / Andy Kirkpatrick, YAN Yonglin 483

23. Learning Cantonese: Reflections of an EFL teacher educator / Gertrude Tinker Sachs 509

24. Enlisting patterns, enlisting members / Dell Hymes, Virginia Hymes 541

25. Pragmatic dissonance: The ecstasy and agony of speaking like a native speaker of English / David C. S. Li 559.

Notes:

"Select scholarly works and activities of Ron Scollon as of October 2001": page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761822291

OCLC:

48876690