Read the Cultural Other
Forms of Otherness in the Discourses of Hong Kong's Decolonization
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Read the Cultural Other
Forms of Otherness in the Discourses of Hong Kong's Decolonization
About this book
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 relegated and marginalized to a 'local', 'particular', or 'other' place in (or, one might argue, outside) the mainstream. To reclaim their place, the book deconstructs the rhetoric of universalism and the continued preoccupation with Western discourse in the profession, and stresses the cultural nature of discourse, both ordinary and disciplinary, as it outlines a culturally pluralist vision.
Secondly, in order to take the multicultural view seriously, it explores the complexity, diversity, and forms of otherness of non-Western discourse by examining the case of China and Hong Kong's discourses of the decolonization of the latter. Far too often, non-Western discourse has been stereotyped as externally discrete, internally homogeneous, and formally containable within a 'universal', 'general', or 'integrated' model. The present work focuses on China and Hong Kong's discourses, which have been marginalized by their Western counterparts. Through culturally eclectic linguistic analysis and local cultural analysis, it identifies and highlights the specific ways of speaking of China and Hong Kong - their concepts, concerns, aspirations, resistance, verbal strategies, etc. - with respect to similar or different issues.
The culturally pluralist view and analytical practice proffered here call for a radical cultural change in international scholarship on language, communication, and discourse.
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Table of contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. The study of non-Western discourse
- Chapter 2. Communication theory and the Western bias
- Chapter 3. Towards multiculturalism in discourse studies
- Chapter 4. Beyond differences in cultural values and modes of communication
- Chapter 5. Reporting the Hong Kong transition: A comparative analysis of news coverage in Europe and Asia
- Chapter 6. The contest over Hong Kong: Revealing the power practices of the Western media
- Chapter 7. Hong Kong’s press freedom: A comparative sociology of Western and Hong Kong’s views
- Chapter 8. Unfamiliar voices from the Other: Exploring forms of Otherness in the media discourses of China and Hong Kong
- Chapter 9. Media and metaphor: Exploring the rhetoric in China’s and Hong Kong’s public discourses on Hong Kong and China
- Chapter 10. Voices of missing identity: A study of contemporary Hong Kong literary writings
- Chapter 11. Identity and interactive hypermedia: A discourse analysis of web diaries
- Chapter 12. Narrating Hong Kong history: A critical study of mainland China’s historical discourse from a Hong Kong perspective
- Chapter 13. A nascent paradigm for non-Western discourse studies: An epilogue
- Backmatter