Cultural Discourse Studies Series
About the Book Series
A cultural-innovation-seeking platform in discourse and communication studies, the Cultural Discourse Studies Series proceeds from the notion of human communication as consisting in culturally diversified and competing discourses and aims to deconstruct disciplinary ethnocentrism on the one hand and develop culturally conscious and critical approaches to human communication on the other hand. Ultimately, the series is dedicated to the scholarly cause of enhancing cultural coexistence, harmony and prosperity.
Digital Inequality: Studies in Cultural Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Gladkova, Elena Vartanova, Shi- xu
December 16, 2024
Tracing the development of new technological skills and digital cultures, this book looks at the rise of new digital divides and reveals how these inequalities affect cross-cultural communication from a cultural discourse studies perspective in various ethnic and cultural groups across the world. ...
Persuasive Genres: Old and New Media
1st Edition
By Sujata S. Kathpalia
September 25, 2023
This book provides an analysis of persuasive genres in the domain of media, ranging from traditional to new media genres on the internet. Kathpalia provides a layered analysis of a family of persuasive genres at the functional, semantic, and linguistic levels and a reconceptualization of genres ...
Discourse and Mental Health: Voice, Inequality and Resistance in Medical Settings
1st Edition
By Juan Eduardo Bonnin
August 14, 2020
This book is the result of years of fieldwork at a public hospital located in an immigrant neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It focuses on the relationships between diversity and inequality in access to mental healthcare through the discourse practices, tactics and strategies deployed by ...
Popularizing Japanese TV: The Cultural, Economic, and Emotional Dimensions of Infotainment Discourse
1st Edition
By Hakan Ergül
June 30, 2020
Over the past years, the view has emerged that Japanese TV is dominated by an infotainment mode of discourse. The book extends this view, detailing and interpreting the cultural, economic, and emotional dimensions of this communication phenomenon from an ethnographic perspective. It examines the ...
Israeli Discourse and the West Bank: Dialectics of Normalization and Estrangement
1st Edition
By Elie Friedman, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri
December 12, 2019
How can irregular political situations, which impact the lives of millions, become normalized? Specifically, within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how can 50 years of Israeli control over the Occupied Territories become accepted within Israeli society as a normal, possibly even ...
Political Discourse as Dialogue: A Latin American Perspective
1st Edition
By Adriana Bolívar
December 12, 2019
We are witnessing the collapse of democracies in many parts of the world and a general tendency to the resurgence of right-wing and left-wing populisms led by authoritarian leaders. This book centres on the political dialogue in one of these democracies. The focus is on Venezuela, the rich Latin ...
Discourses of the Developing World: Researching properties, problems and potentials
1st Edition
By Shi-xu, Kwesi Kwaa Prah, María Pardo
September 27, 2018
Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centred approach to unfamiliar, marginalized or otherwise disadvantaged discourses of the Third World or the Global South. Written by leading researchers ...