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Publication details [#25568]
Shi, Xu. 1994. Ideology: Strategies of reason and functions of control in accounts of the non-Western Other. Journal of Pragmatics 21 (6) : 645–669. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper argues for a discursive model of ideology and proposes a reasoned-discourse analytical approach. The analysis of contemporary Dutch travel accounts of China demonstrates that explanatory and argumentative texts are important ideological factors in achieving control and dominance.