PART ONE CULTURAL CRITIQUES OF DISCOURSE SCHOLARSHIP 3
1 Open up Discourse-Theoretical Frontiers 3
2 Binary vS.Holistic Concepts of Discourse and Culture 6
3 Linguistics as Cultural and Rhetorical Construction 37
4 Discourse Studies as Cultural Politics 64
5 Multicultural Discourses as Objects of Study 78
6 Eastern Paradigms of Discourse Studies 85
7 Cultural Discourse Studies 110
8 Cultural China in a Discourse Perspective 131
9 The Impasse of Discourse"and"Society 143
PART TWO STUDIES OF CULTURAL FORMS AND FUNCTIONS 151
10 Argumentation,Explanation and Social Cognition 151
11 Reason and Control in Accounts of the Non-Western Other 179
12 Concepts as Interactional Resource in Troubled Intercultural Contexts 206
13 Perceptions as Exploitations of the Unexpected of the Cultural Other 231
14 Explanatory Discourse:Its Structural and Qualitative Complexities 257
15 Opinion Discourse and Its Paradoxes 279
16 Communication in a Cultural Psychological Perspective 303
PART THREE ENQUIRIES INTO UNFAMILIAR OR NEW DISCOURSES 323
17 The Chinese New Discourse of Human Rights 323
18 Cultural China in Discursive Transformation 346
19 The Non-Western Discourse 353
20 Changing Discourses as Research Agenda 372
21 Constructing New Forms of Intercultural Communication 377
22 Historical Developments of Identity in Collective Discourse 394