Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies

In response to the cultural challenges in society and scholarship, this handbook presents the conceptions, assumptions, principles, methods, topics and issues in the studies of cultural forms of human communication—cultural discourses—by experts from around the world.

A culturalist programme in communication studies (CS), cultural discourse studies (CDS), as represented in this handbook, is a new current of thought in human and social science and a form of academic activism, but above all, it is a fresh paradigm of research committed to enhancing cultural harmony and prosperity on the one hand and facilitating intellectual plurality and innovation on the other hand. This handbook is the first of its kind; it is concerned with the identities of, and interactions between, the world’s diverse cultural communities through locally-grounded and globally-minded, culturally conscious and critical approaches to their communicative practice. Contributors apply such insights, precepts and techniques, not merely to discover and describe past and present communication, but also to design and guide future communication.

This handbook is ideal for scholars and students interested in cultural aspects and issues of communication/discourse, as well as researchers of other fields looking to apply cultural discourse methods to their own projects.

Shi-xu is Changjiang Distinguished Professor and Director of the School for Contemporary Chinese Communication Studies at Hangzhou Normal University, China. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Routledge, ESCI) and General Editor of the Cultural Discourse Studies Series (Routledge). His books in English include Cultural Representations (1997), A Cultural Approach to Discourse (2005), Read the Cultural Other (as lead editor) (2005), Discourse as Cultural Struggle (as editor) (2007), Discourse and Culture (2013), Chinese Discourse Studies (2014) and Discourses of the Developing World (2015).