Discourses of the developing world : researching properties, problems and, potentials of the developing world / Shi-xu, Kwesi Kwaa Prah, and María Laura Pardo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shi-xu, 1960- author.

Prah, Kwesi Kwaa, author.

Pardo, María Laura, author.

Series:

Cultural discourse studies series

Cultural Discourse Studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication--Developing countries.

Intercultural communication.

Discourse analysis--Developing countries.

Discourse analysis.

Language acquisition.

Language policy--Developing countries.

Language policy.

Sociolinguistics--Developing countries.

Sociolinguistics.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

vi, 171 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Asian discourse development

Contemporary Chinese communication from a cultural-psychological perspective

International city branding as intercultural discourse: workplace, development and globalization

A discourse on the usage of african languages for scientific and technological education and development

The role of language and literacy in the acquisition of knowledge: the African context

Language policies and power dynamics in Africa: problems linked to linguistic policies and power relations within countries as well as between countries

Latin-American cultural-critical studies

Culture and political challenges: television narratives aout the 30th Anniversary of the Malvinas/Falklands war

Modernity, postmodernity, culture and representations of work in the discouese of the Argentine extremely poor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138017481

1138017485

OCLC:

950428139