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Argues that non-Western discourses cannot be contained in a 'general', 'universal', or 'integrated' model of linguistic communication, but must be understood from a culturally pluralist perspective. Proceeding from this standpoint, this book offers a variety of analyses of China and Hong Kong's discourses on the decolonization of the latter.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to talk and its role in certain workplace practice and relationships, this book consists of 14 contributions that address the thematic focus of how professional knowledge and identities are constituted in discourse, vis-a-vis a given institutional order.