Current scholarship on language and communication has largely been culturally monologic rather than diversified and dialogical. In this paper? I respond to this sorry state by arguing for reasons and resources for reconstructing Eastern paradigms in favour of multiculturalist research. After critiquing the ethnocentrism of Critical Discourse Analysis from an Eastern perspective, I point to, firstly, the cultural particuliarities of Asian, African, Latin American and other Third World discourses, secondly, the relevant
intellectual heritages of the East as well as its contemporary achievements. In conclusion,I propose action strategies that may help scholars across all seas to work together and reconstruct Eastern paradigms of discourse studies for the sake of scholarly innovation and cultural prosperity.
