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Read the Cultural Other: Forms of Otherness in the Discourses of Hong Kong's Decolonization

Contributor(s): Shi-Xu (Editor), Kienpointner, Manfred (Editor), Servaes, Jan (Editor)

ISBN: 9783110182675

Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton

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Pub Date: August 17, 2005

Dewey: 306.44095125

LCCN: 2005013474

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: 22 to 22

Physical Info: 0.75" H x 9.21" L x 6.14" W ( 1.26 lbs) 252 pages

Series: Language, Power and Social Process [Lpsp]

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Description: A ground-breaking work, Read the Cultural Other argues that non-Western discourses cannot be contained in a 'general', 'universal', or 'integrated' model of linguistic communication or discourse, but must be understood from a culturally pluralist pe

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"This is an inspiriting and inspirited collection of papers. [...] And in moving beyond the materiality of description, Read the Cultural Others manages to situate the theorizing of discourse studies at the very heart of the "human condition." Bravo!"
Leo Francis Hoye in: Intercultural Pragmatics 3/2006

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