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