The concept of social power, who holds it and how they use it is a widely debated subject particularly in the field of discourse analysis, and the wider arena of sociolinguistics.In her new book,Joanna Thornborrow challenges the received notion that power is necessarily held by some speakers and...

This paper views social enterprise development in China as a process of institutional reinvention. This process indicates the foreign concept or practice's being modified to fit local realities and being combined with local elements to shape a course of development different from that in the...