
Discourses of the Developing World
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'It encouarges cultural equality and diversity in the academic field as well as being a useful resource for those working in the fields of discourse studies, cultural studies and developing country studies in general.' - Nan Wu and Jingyuan Zhang, Discourse and Communication'Several elements make the volume rather attractive, such as a collective authorship, native scholars with wide research experience in the relevant discourses, case studies on socially broad issues and unique cultural perspectives, and tools toward development communication studies. As a whole, it is a well-organized and somewhat an innovative book with a range of merits. First, it provides rich content and selects multifarious local discourses pertinent to "development" from the continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, respectively, which enables both diversity and usefulness. Second, different from most existing researches of development, it adopts multifaceted historical and cultural perspectives to demonstrate the changes of the developing world in many respects, including economy, politics, science, technology, and culture. Third, it is vitally important and significant, though it seems ambitious, that against the mainstream communication studies and critical discourse analysis, the authors strive to construct plural, creative, critical, and non-Western paradigms of discourse studies, such as the nascent paradigm of cultural discourse studies (CDS). [...] I would highly recommend this book to scholars and students who are interested in cultural discourse/communication studies and develop-ment studies.' - Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Volume 95, Issue 1
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Kwesi Kwaa Prah is Professor Emeritus in Sociology of the University of the Western Cape. He is founder and former Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Maria Laura Pardo is Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Director of the Department of Linguistics at the Philosophical and Cultural Anthropology Research Centre (CIAFIC-CONICET), Professor of Analysis of the Languages of the Mass Media at the Faculty of Arts, University of Buenos Aires.
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