Discourse and Socio-Political Transformations in Contemporary China

Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 9:4 (2010)

Editors

Paul Chilton | Lancaster University

Hailong Tian | Tianjin University of Commerce

Ruth Wodak | Lancaster University

[Journal of Language and Politics, 9:4] 2010. v, 157 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.9.4

Table of Contents

Preface Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak	485–487
Articles
Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak	489–507
The discursive construction of the social stratification order in reforming China Qing Zhang	508–527
Institutional language as power in contemporary China: Interaction between officials and visitors in government service offices Yi Li	528–545
A cultural political economy of transnational knowledge brands: Porterian “competitiveness” discourse and its recontextualization in Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta Ngai-Ling Sum	546–573
Discursive production of teaching quality assessment report: A Critical Discourse Analysis Hailong Tian	574–592
Discursive construction of Chinese foreign policy: A diachronic analysis of the Chinese government’s Annual Work Report to the NPC Zeshun You, Jianping Chen and Zhong-Hong	593–614
The re-imagined West in Chinese television: A case study of the CCTV documentary series the Rise of the Great Powers Qing Cao	615–633
Book review
Review of Tian (2009): Discourse Studies: Categories, Perspectives and Methodologies (in Chinese) Reviewed by Peng Zhao	635–638

Subjects

Linguistics

Discourse studies