Cultural Representations: Analyzing the discourse about the Other - Softcover

Shi-xu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 363132118X ISBN 13: 9783631321188

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1997

Synopsis

Traditionally, language has been used as a means of discovering psychological realities. The present book takes a discourse analytical approach to mental representations and focuses on the language of 'thought' as its very topic of inquiry. Special attention is paid to the role of discursive structures and processes in creating mental states and to the social purposes and consequences of such 'mental' texts and talk. Empirical studies of interpurposes and consequences of such 'mental' text and talk. Empirical studies of interviews with expatriate Chinese academics about the Dutch and of Dutch travel literature on China show that perceptions, attitudes, attributions, ideologies, etc. are integrated components of social interaction which serve to project particular cultural identities.

About this title

About the Author

The Author: Shi-xu has been a Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and has taught there as well as at the State University of Leiden and the State University of Utrecht.

Language Notes

Text: German

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 363132118X
• ISBN 13: 9783631321188
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 271