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Overview"LuMing Mao offers an important discussion of the rhetoric of Chinese American speakers, which has wide implications for the teaching of writing in English and for our understanding of cross-cultural influences in discourse. Recent scholarship tends to explain such influences as contributing to language hybridity---an advance over the traditional ""deficit model."" But Mao suggests that the ""hybridity"" approach is perhaps too arid or sanitized, missing rich nuances of mutual exchange, resistance, or even subversion. Working from Ang's concept of ""togetherness in difference,""Mao suggests that speakers of hybrid discourse may not be attempting the standard (and failing), but instead may be deliberately importing cultural material to create a distance between themselves and the standard. This practice, over time, becomes a process that transforms English, enriching and enlarging it through the infusion of non-Western discourse features, subverting power structures, and even providing unique humorous touches. Of interest to scholars in composition, cultural studies, and linguistics as well, Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie leads in an important new direction for both our understanding and our teaching of English." Full Product DetailsAuthor: LuMing MaoPublisher: Utah State University Press Imprint: Utah State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.329kg ISBN: 9780874216400ISBN 10: 0874216400 Pages: 190 Publication Date: 07 July 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationLuMing Mao is associate professor and director of graduate studeis in the department of English at Miami University. He teaches and researches Chinese and European American rhetorical traditions, Chinese American rhetoric, linguistics, pragmatics, and writing in multicultural spaces. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |