Publications

Publication details [#50966]

Lee-Wong, Song Mei. 2009. Discourse as communicative action: Validation of China’s new socio-cultural paradigm Qiye Wenhua/‘enterprise culture’. Pragmatics 19 (2) : 2222223–239.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

business language | communication | culture | economics | language and culture

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

Drawing on Habermas (1998) 'communicative action' as analytical tool, this exploratory study argues that interviews with executives of non-state owned Chinese enterprises on China's new socio-cultural paradigm of 'enterprise culture' (Qiye Wenhua), reveal speaker purpose to justify China’s socialist market economy model.