Critical Pragmatic Studies on Chinese Public Discourse

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-77724-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Reihe: China Perspectives

Public discourse constitutes the language environment of a town or a city, which forms part of the social environment of a country or a region. Based on extensive first-hand data collected from public places, mass media and the Internet, this monograph attempts critical pragmatic studies of public discourse in the contemporary Chinese context.
By applying pragmatic theories and analytical instruments to the analysis of the data, including business names, advertisements, public signs and notices, and news, the book showcases such discursive practices as personalization and subjectivization and reveals such social problems as unhealthy social mentalities, “pragmatic traps”, suspect discrimination, and vulgarity. It exemplifies a way of combining the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach and the pragmatic approach with a clear focus on the pragmatic issues.

This book will not only be a necessary addition to the academic discipline of pragmatics in general, and critical pragmatics in particular, but also lay bare the problems existing in the use of public discourse and suggest several ways to improve such use. While it addresses the Chinese data only, the proposed analyses may contribute to international readers’ understanding of public discourse in contemporary China and serve as a reference for similar researches worldwide.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chen, Xinren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures. List of tables. Preface. Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Research Background 3 Theoretical Foundations 4 Social Mentalities behind Chinese Business Names 5 "Pragmatic Traps" in Chinese Advertisements 6 "Suspected" Discrimination in Chinese Public Discourse 7 (Non-)Civility in Chinese Public Discourse 8 Personalization in Chinese Public Discourse 9 Subjectivity in Chinese Journalistic Discourse 10 Conclusion Appendices. References. Index

Über Autor(innen)

CHEN Xinren is a professor of English and linguistics in Nanjing University, China, specializing in pragmatic theory and application.