Download or read book Cross Currents: Essays in Culture and Discourse written by Luke Strongman and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is to illuminate patches of turbulence or eddies of confluence amongst social, economic, socio-legal, communication, language and linguistic, and psychological concepts and ideas that emerge from the concerns of contemporary New Zealand society: hence the concept for this book of essays in the 'soft' social-sciences, or those disciplines that are amenable to qualitative analysis and discursive description.