ABSTRACTThis paper proposes to use ‘multi-discursive ethnography’ to move critical discourse analysis/studies beyond an analytical enterprise so that it may transcend the ‘critical/positive’ dichotomy and the language dilemma researchers confront. As an alternative form of critical discourse study, multi-discursive ethnography seeks to explore different discourses of a subject matter and weave them together for dialogue and diversity. As such, it not only challenges dominant discursive construction of the subject matter at stake, but also endorses corresponding local, cultural ways of speaking (...) and thinking. Using the Wenchang Palace in a transdisciplinary project at a historical neighborhood in Quzhou, China, as the case, the paper illustrates how a multi-discursive ethnography of this no longer materially existing heritage site is written to facilitate critiquing of the ‘authorized heritage discourse’ from the West and simultaneously promote pertinent local voices and deep-rooted cultural language for multi-discursive dialogue. (shrink)

This article describes a cultural approach to critical discourse analysis which aims at exposing the various ways in which cultural codes are embedded in discourse, and contribute to the reproduction of abuses of power. The article attempts to represent CCDA not only as a theoretical framework, but also as a practical tool for decoding the cultural ‘cargo’ contained within discourses. The article focusses on five major concepts: culture, discursive strategies, cultural codes, the global market of cultural codes and the culture (...) of peace. It presents general principles for CCDA and specific principles of analysis that can be applied for verbal and non-verbal practices alike, and also for factual and fictional discourses. (shrink)