Shi-xu Shi-xu

Hangzhou Normal University | HNU · school of foreign language

Articles published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses(ECSI, WoS) Issues 1, 2, 3, 4 (V12) 2017, Taylor & Francis

Articles published in Journal of Multicultural Discourses(ECSI, WoS) Issues 1, 2, 3, 4 (V13), 2018, Taylor & Francis

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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,...

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China’s ascendancy in general and its military growth in particular have engendered mixed reactions the world over. This article takes up international academic discourse on China’s national defence and examines the ways in which recurring themes of China as a ‘regional threat’, ‘hostile East Asian power’, and as ‘untrustworthy’, as well as proposa...

Cultural discourse studies is an emerging paradigm of discourse and communication studies that is characterized by a profound concern with human cultural diversity, division and development. This cultural science movement manifests itself in the form of (a) participation of culturally diverse scholars, especially from the Developing World, (b) gene...

Although the communicative dimension of urban development has caught the imagination of urban studies scholars, the cultural, and intercultural, nature of this discourse has received less attention than it deserves. As a case study and illustration of urban development workplace discourse from out of a Chinese/Asian/developing-world context, the pr...

Chinese Discourse Studies presents an innovative and systematic approach to discourse and communication in contemporary China. Incorporating Chinese philosophy and theory, it offers not only a distinct cultural paradigm in the field, but also a culturally sensitive and effective tool for studying Chinese discourses.

Critical Discourse Analysis has excelled with its functional and ideological analysis of socio-political texts. Its capacities and achievements notwithstanding, this tradition is constituted of Western concepts, values, ways of thinking, analytic tools and topics of interest; such becomes problematic when universalised and globalised in internation...

In this chapter we shall move to a largely business field and focus on China’s recent international trade disputes. As in the previous chapter, I shall treat social issues and phenomena as discourse, and as cultural discourse at that, where individuals, groups and organizations, through verbal and non-verbal communication and use of mediums, compet...

Following the overarching paradigm of CDS outlined in Chapter 1 and in turn as part and exemplar of EDS delineated in Chapter 2, this chapter presents a first comprehensive and systematic framework for the study of contemporary Chinese discourse: Chinese Discourse Studies (CNDS). The exposition is organized in three parts. Firstly, the basic princi...

Mainstream discourse analysis, as well as communication studies, is basically Western and in many respects Westcentric. As such it is not only unhelpful to multicultural humanity in the process of accelerated globalization, but also counterproductive to human intellectual growth and prosperity. It is against the backdrop of such cultural-intellectu...

In international scholarship, Chinese political communication is usually viewed from a Westcentric, nation-based, political-economic perspective. Consequently, it is often portrayed as a product of the Chinese Communist Party and government(’s ideology), deviant, totalitarian and unchanging. In this chapter, I first argue for a historical and inter...

The present book will introduce a Chinese approach to contemporary China’s discourse and communication. It is a Chinese system of research in that it is anchored in Chinese culture and history, including its scholarly legacies, infused with a cultural-political compassion for China’s socio-economic development, and concerned with the discursive and...

I started the book (Preface) by pointing to a set of practical local and global issues facing China and the world at large; there I suggested that a broader, culturally conscious and critical, discursive approach would make important contributions to our understanding. Then in the Introduction, I asked whether existing discourse research would be u...

This final chapter proposes a cultural-discursive approach in which urban affairs are viewed holistically as culturally based communicative activity where use of language plays a central role. Accordingly, an empirical case study is conducted on the urban development discourse of Hangzhou, a thriving, historical tourist city on the east coast of Ch...

Globalism in society and Westcentrism in scholarship are the two central and interrelated challenges that current discourse and communication studies has to face up to. CDS has charted a general way of taking them up by creating a new, multicultural space where different cultural-intellectual communities of discourse studies develop and advance the...

Cultural psychology as a discipline is designed ultimately to help understand and to help guide cultural practice. In the present study, we focus on the case of present-day Chinese communication (or discourse) and argue that an adequate understanding must take into account its cultural ways of thinking and feeling—a discourse-dialectic collective c...

The present article argues for a culturally conscious and reflexive approach to discourse studies, beyond the discipline's taken-for-granted multi-disciplinarity, moral stance and monologue, with a view to facilitating genuine research innovation and cultural equality and prosperity. First, it highlights the oft obscured cultural nature of mainstre...

In the international scholarship, Chinese political communication is usually viewed from a political-economic and West-centric perspective. Consequently, it is portrayed as a product of the Chinese Communist Party(‘s ideology), deviant, totalitarian and unchanging. In this article I first argue for a historical and intercultural approach and so a v...

In this paper, I present a theoretical and empirical analysis as well as assessment of Chinese political discourse from a culture-interactive and culture-competitive perspective. Against the background of the common political-economic, and West-centric frame of Chinese communication, it is argued that Chinese political discourse is not in isolation...

The study of discourse, or situated linguistic communication, has been mainly dominated by Westcentric perspectives, models, approaches and issues. In this article, I argue that it is not only necessary but also possible to construct Asian paradigms of discourse studies as a new speaker in critical dialogue with the Western mainstream. After pointi...

Cultural psychology, as one of the youngest, yet fastest growing social sciences, has been explored in most parts of the world and approached from a great diversity of angles. What must be continuously researched in the theory, method and critique of cultural psychology, however, are historical, intercultural and political perspectives. To take up...

Current scholarship on language and communication has largely been culturally monological rather than dialogical and diversified. In this paper, I respond to this sorry state by arguing for the reconstruction of Eastern paradigms in favour of multiculturalism in discourse research. To that end, I first critique the ethnocentrism of Discourse Analys...

Read the Cultural Other contains studies on non-Western discourse. It has two principal aims. Firstly, it argues that the study of non-Western, non-White, and Third-World discourses should become a legitimate, necessary, and routine part of international discourse scholarship. Hitherto, non-Western, non-White, and Third-Word discourses have been re...

This book brings to social scientists a new look at how human beings are striving towards understanding others-- and through that effort--making sense of themselves. It brings together researchers from all over the World who have suggested a set of new approaches to the basic research issue of how human beings are social beings, while being unique...

The present article advocates a multiculturalist approach to theoretical rearticulation of language and communication. It does so by arguing why this approach is needed and showing how it can be achieved. The first part of the essay takes up aculturalist tendencies in the case of discourse studies and examines their theoretical and political conseq...

The present paper argues for the essential relationship between discourse and the human mind. Drawing upon the critical insights from a range of social sciences including Cultural Psychology and Discourse Studies, I outline in the first part of the paper a discursive account of the mind—of cognition, emotion, self and consciousness and the like: th...

Shi-xu critiques universalism in discourse studies in terms of the cultural consequences of its current white, western standpoint and advocates a culturally pluralist approach, a theory and research methodology from an innovative position between Eastern and Western cultures. Practical research strategies are illustrated by examples drawn from cult...

The new discipline 'cultural psychology' has identified the dominant psychology, including its universalistic 'cross-cultural' version, as derived from a particular historical and cultural discourse. What receives only short shrift is that cultural psychology itself is also a body of texts and contexts linked with particular cultural and historical...

The mainstream pedagogy of intercultural contact and communication has tended to give precedence to linguistic and cultural knowledge, the 'translation' of such knowledge, hence 'intercultural competence'. This paper argues what has been overlooked is the essential power saturation of intercultural encounters, where power is defined as textual prac...

Abstract Discourse and communication approaches to culture have traditionally been concerned with the role of language in (mis)representing cultures. But how text and talk reproduce and transform cultures is just beginning to be understood. Proceeding from the view that cultural creation, development and transformation are constituted in and throug...

Recent discourse studies have increased our awareness of the discursive origins, significance, and consequences of "opinion," "emotion," and "mind" more generally. In this article I explore some of the complexities in treating opinions discursively. To that end I examine empirical data from travelogues, mass media, and a research interview. Through...

L'A. examine la maniere dont les representations ideologiques sont realisees dans et par le discours afin de servir les interets de groupes ou d'institutions aux detriments d'autres groupes. Il se concentre notamment sur l'ideologie de l'exclusion et de la marginalisation sociale des cultures non occidentales, et en particulier de la culture chinoi...

This paper proposes a social cognitive model of argumentative and explanatory discourse. It consists of a series of assumptions and hypotheses for reconstructing socio cultural attitudes and ideologies from ordinary argumentations and explanations. The paper elaborates the assumption that socially shared knowledge representations play a crucial rol...