Studies of Public Discourse in the Chinese Sociocultural Context:An Introduction

• 作者: Jianping Chen Tao Xiong
• 来源期刊: 中国应用语言学:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: DISCOURSE EVERYDAY LEGAL
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（1）
• 页码范围: 3-4
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

In this special column,we present four papers on the general theme of"Studies of Public Discourse in the Chinese Context.Here we broadly understand public discourse as'any discourse produced for and by members of specialized sectors of society,organized through specific types of social order,who act in accordance with designated specific purposes,all of which is beyond the discursive scope of everyday life"(Strauss&Feiz,2014,p.76).Public discourse is generally characterized by the following features:(1)it involves particular expertise or professional knowledge;(2)it is goal-oriented;(3)it is socially ordered and shaped;and(4)it can be multivocal,multilingual and multimodal.In this column,the four papers are concerned with the broad topic areas,or registers,of legal discourse,media discourse,internet discourse,and commercial discourse.The authors have approached their research questions from a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches.