Shi-xu - Resume and Abstract

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Name	Shi-xu
Title	Professor, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Multicultural Discourses Series Editor, Studying Multicultural Discourses Director, Institute of Discourse & Cultural Studies Zhejiang University
Brief Introduction	Shi-xu ( 施旭, b. 1960, PhD University of Amsterdam) has been a Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, Lecturer at the National University of Singapore and Reader at the University of Ulster, UK. His books in English include Cultural Representations, A Cultural Approach to Discourse, Read the Cultural Other (lead-editor) and Discourse as Cultural Struggle (editor). He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Multicultural Discourses (Routledge) and Series Lead-Editor of Studying Multicultural Discourses (Hong Kong University Press) and serves on the editorial boards of several premiere international journals (Jo of Socioling, Jo of Lang & Soc Psy, Cult & Psy, Disc & Soc, Jo of Asia-Pacific Comm, Jo of Black Studies). He is a recipient of the New-Century Outstanding Researcher Fund from the Ministry of Education, China. Currently he is Qiushi Distinguished Professor, Director of the Institute of Discourse and Cultural Studies, and Director of Centre for Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies (CCCDS), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou. His central academic position is that contemporary language/communication/discourse must be studied as a site of cultural contest, cooperation and transformation.
Recent Publications	施旭（2008）话语分析的文化转向：试论建立当代中国话语研究范式的动因、目标和策略。《浙江大学学报》(“当代中国话语研究”专栏文章之一）38（1）：131－140。 Shi-xu. (2007b). Linguistics as metaphor: analysing the discursive ontology of the object of linguistic enquiry. In T. A. van Dijk, Discourse Studies, London: Sage Publications. Vol 5. Pp. 39-62. (Also published in Language Sciences, 2000, Vol 22, Pp 423-46) Shi-xu ( 2007a ). Contemporary Chinese communication with its cultural Others. In L. M. Simao & J. Valsiner, Otherness in Question: Labyrinths of the Self. Charlotte , NC : Information Age Publishing. Pp. 257-76. Shi-xu et John Wilson (2007). Volonte e purvoir: vers une recherche et une pedagogie radicales en matiere de communication transculturelle. Ferrer: Langues et Cultures. (Traduction de P. Hunt). 18: 15-35. (Translation from Shi-xu & John Wilson (2001). Will and power: towards radical intercultural communication research and pedagogy. Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication. 1 (1): 76-93. ) Shi-xu (2006). Editorial: Researching Multicultural Discourses. Journal of Multicultural Discourses. 1(1): 1-5 Shi-xu (2005), Review of CHINESE ENGLISHES: A sociolinguistic history (Kingsley Bolton, Cambridge University Press). Multilingua. Pp. 314-6

Paper:

Reconstructing Eastern Paradigms of Discourse Studies

Shi-xu
Centre for Contemporary Chinese Discourse Studies, Zhejiang University

xshi@zju.edu.cn www.shixu.com http://www.discourses.org.cn/

Abstract

Current scholarship on language and communication has largely been culturally monological rather than dialogical and diversified. In this keynote, I respond to this sorry state by arguing for the reconstruction of Eastern paradigms in favour of multiculturalism in discourse research. To that end, I first critique the ethnocentrism of the case of Critical Discourse Analysis, then point to the cultural realities of the Eastern discourses, i.e. the discourses of Asia, Africa, Latin America and other developing, subaltern societies in the North and South, and finally demonstrate the unique intellectual accomplishments of the Eastern world useful for the study of their discourses. In conclusion, I outline the basic requirements for the new paradigms and the corresponding action strategies for the reconstructive work.

Keywords disciplinary discourse, ethnocentrism, multiculturalism, Third World, Eastern wisdoms