Discourses of the Developing World: Researching Properties, Problems and Potentials

✍ Scribed by Shi-xu; Kwesi Kwaa Prah; María Laura Pardo

• Publisher: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 181
• Series: Cultural Discourse Studies
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
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: 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 about the thirtieth anniversary of the Malvinas/Falklands War
9 Modernity, postmodernity, culture and representations of work in the discourse of the Argentine extreme poor
Epilogue
Index