The Discursive Construction of Intercultural Understanding in China: A Case Study of an International Baccalaureate Diploma Program

by Wang Xi

This ethnographic study of an international curriculum program in China provides a holistic picture of classroom communication and describes patterns of discursive practice so that readers might vicariously experience the discursive construction of intercultural understanding. Through critical discourse analysis, this book reveals unequal access to meaning-making in everyday communication and explains these asymmetries in power.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498514308
• ISBN13: 9781498514309
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"