本书是《中华话语》丛书的第三本。该丛书由北京大学社会理论研究中心主任、中国社会学学会前副会长谢立中教授和浙江工商大学中外话语研究所所长、中国英汉语比较研究会话语研究专业委员会副会长钱毓芳教授共同主编，由环球世纪出版社于2016年开始出版。

在20世纪下半叶，西方哲学和社会科学的一个重要成就是认识到“话语”在理解人们的日常生活和构建社会现实的过程中的关键作用，并将话语的研究和分析置于哲学和社会科学研究的核心。话语分析在1980年代引入中国，并且自那时起在中国不断发展。

在过去的三十年中，特别是在最后十年中，许多中国学者试图使用话语分析的框架来描述和分析在当代中国社会中各种“话语”的生产和传播，以及“话语”在构建社会现实中的作用。结果，许多研究在语言学、传播、哲学、社会学、政治、经济、法律、心理学、教育、国际关系和文学批评等领域发表，其中许多都是开创性和创新性的。虽然中国学者的成就在数量和质量上仍与西方学者存在差距，但这些研究在从话语构建的角度理解当代中国方面发挥了不可替代的作用。

基于语料库的批判性话语分析方法始于1990年代。其拥护者将语料库方法与批判性话语分析相结合，有效地消除了定量研究和定性研究之间的隔阂，并为话语研究提供了更坚实的定量分析基础。从那时起，学者们一直在探索更多补充语料库和批判性话语分析的方法。Paul Baker的书《使用语料库进行话语分析》（2006年）概述了许多基于语料库的话语分析技术，这标志着这种方法向成熟迈出了重要的一步。

本系列涵盖了围绕中国历史、文化、时事、语言和人民的话语研究。此外，它倡导一种跨学科、多角度、多方法的知识，这种知识融合了中国文化并具有全球视野，弥合了中国与世界其他地方的差距，为外界理解中国打开了一扇窗户。有关更多细节，请参阅本系列的两篇总序。

The Chinese Discourse book series has been published by Global Century Press from 2016. It is edited jointly by Professor XIE Lizhong, Director of the Centre for Social Theory Studies, Peking University; formerly Vice-President of the Chinese Sociological Association, China, and Professor QIAN Yufang, Director of Institute of Chinese and Foreign Discourses, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Vice-President of the Discourse Research Association of China. In the second half of the 20th century an important achievement of Western philosophy and social sciences was to appreciate the key role of ‘discourse’ in the process of understanding people’s daily life and constructing social reality, and to put the study and analysis of discourse at the core of research on philosophy and social sciences. Discourse analysis was introduced into China in the 1980s, and has been continuously developing there ever since.

During the past thirty years, and particularly in the last decade, a number of Chinese scholars have attempted to employ the framework of discourse analysis to describe and analyse both the production and communication of various ‘discourses’ in contemporary Chinese society, and how ‘discourse’ functions in constructing social reality. As a result, numerous studies have been published in the fi elds of linguistics, communications, philosophy, sociology, politics, economics, law, psychology, education, international relations and literary criticism, many of which are pioneering and innovative. Although there is still a gap between the achievements of Chinese scholars and those of their Western counterparts in quantity and quality, these studies play an irreplaceable role in understanding contemporary China from the perspective of discourse construction.

Corpus-based approaches to critical discourse analysis started in the 1990s. Its proponents combined corpus approaches with CDA, effectively eliminating the separation between quantitative and qualitative studies and providing a stronger basis for quantitative analysis within discourse studies. Since then, scholars have been exploring more ways of complementing corpus and critical discourse analysis. Paul Baker’s book Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis (2006) provides an overview of many corpus-based techniques in discourse analysis, which marks an important step towards maturity for this approach.

This series covers discourse studies around Chinese history, culture, current affairs, language and people. Moreover, it advocates an interdisciplinary, multi-perspective, multi-method knowledge merged with Chinese culture and possessing a global outlook, which bridges the gap between China and the rest of the world and opens a window for the outside world to understand China. For more details see the two General Prefaces of this series.