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