Wendy Feng Ouyangs book reviewdiscourse society英文电子书.pdf

Discourse Society Book review: OUYANG HUHUA, Remaking of Face and Community of Practice: An Ethnography of Local and Expatriate Teachers Reform Stories in Todays China. Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2004. ISBN 7—3010—7729—7 Jieyun Feng Discourse Society 2007; 18; 380 DOI: 10.1177/09579265070180030504 The online version of this article can be found at: Published by: Additional services and information for Discourse Society can be found at: Email Alerts: /cgi/alerts Subscriptions: /subscriptions Reprints: /journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav Citations /cgi/content/refs/18/3/380 Downloaded from at University of International Business and Economics on March 21, 2010 380 Discourse Society 18(3) In Chapter 11, on ‘Telling Stories and Giving Evidence’, Harris exemplifies how different contexts shape narrative configuration, analyzing the blurring of the distinction between narrative and non-narrative mode in the context of judicial trials. In ‘Television News and Narratives’ (Chapter 12), Montgomery presents an attempt to characterize the aspects that differentiate stories in the news from other types of narratives. Finally, Threadgold (‘Performing Theories of Narrative’, Chapter 13) reflects on the theoretical consequences of the constructionist approach in narrative, arguing for an integration between micro- and macro-level analyses,