Title: Language in the academy : cultural reflexivity and intercultural dynamics /
Authors: Turner, Joan, 1951-
Publisher: Multilingual Matters,
Year: 2011
Subjects: English language Rhetoric Study and teaching Great Britain.; Academic writing Study and teaching Great Britain.; College students Great Britain Social conditions.; College students Great Britain Language.
Contents: General overview -- Language, language pedagogies and intercultural communication in contemporary higher education -- Language in the academy: the discourse of remediation -- Languaging in the academy: language as dynamic practice -- Occidentalist inscription: the historical construction of contemporary representations of language in the academy -- Disciplining language: rhetorical values and the regulation of academic writing -- Power/knowledge and the construction of rhetorical subjects -- Subject to Confucian rhetorical culture -- The power/knowledge effects of the Socratic dialogue -- Socratic subjects: the western tutor as midwife -- Resisting the Tao of talk: verbalisation in intercultural context -- The way of learning: the spatial relations of learning and teaching in the Confucian/Taoist tradition -- The discursive dance of the intercultural introduction -- The critical rhetoric of being critical.