Introduction 1
Chapter 1 An Overview of the Writing Process 1
Traditional Views of the Writing Process 5
Current Views of the Writing Process 26
Shifting Views on L2 Writing Instruction 36
Chapter 2 Postmodernism and Process Writing 45
Postmodernism 45
Concept of Process and Subject 48
The Postmodern Notion of the ‘Other’ 55
Sense of Discontinuity 58
Decentralization 64
Anti-Universalism 71
Chapter 3 The Yin-Yang Paradigm 79
Why the Yin-Yang Paradigm？ 79
Origin of the Yin-Yang Conception 84
Elaboration and Development of the Yin-Yang Concept 89
East West Convergence in Dialectics 102
Characteristics of the Yin-Yang Categories 109
Chapter 4 The Interactionist and Reflective Approach 117
Characteristics of the Self 119
Self as Social 126
Two Phases of the Self： the ‘I’ and the ‘Me’ 135
The Genesis and Development of the Self 144
Chapter 5 The Interplay of Language and Thought 159
Language and Thought as a Reciprocal Relationship 161
Social Origins of Higher Mental Functions 167
Two Phases： Interpsychological and Intrapsychological 173
Vygotsky’s Conception of Egocentric Speech 176
“The Zone of Proximal Development” 181
The Dialogical Experience of M.Bakhtin 188
Chapter 6 A Re-examination of the Process 192
Theories of Audience Analysis 193
The ‘Other’ as an Indispensable Partner 200
Q.D.Leavis’s Research and Other ‘Literary Indebtedness’ 213
The “Re-surfacing” of Interpersonal Interaction 231
Conclusion 243
Bibliography 253