LINGUIST List 19.2509

Thu Aug 14 2008

TOC: Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 18/2 (2008)

Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org>

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        1.    Paul Peranteau, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication Vol 18, No 2 (2008)

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Message 1: Journal of Asian Pacific Communication Vol 18, No 2 (2008)
Date: 14-Aug-2008
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Journal of Asian Pacific Communication Vol 18, No 2 (2008)
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Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Journal of Asian Pacific Communication Volume Number: 18 Issue Number: 2 Issue Date: 2008


Main Text:

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 18:2

2008. 156 pp.

Table of contents

Articles

Taiwanese older adults’ perceptions of aging and communication with peers andyoung adultsMei-Chen Lin and Yan Bing Zhang 135–156

Mitigation on the minibus: Politeness as variableJohn Gibbons 157–165

China’s minorities without written scripts: The case of education access amongthe DongxiangJiayi Wang and Gerard A. Postiglione 166–190

Cantonese as written standard?Don Snow 190–208

Cultural values and aging in Chinese television commercialsYan Bing Zhang, Yi Song and Leilani Jensen Carver 209–224

Communication across languages and cultures: A perspective of brand nametranslation from English to ChineseJian Sang and Grace Zhang 225–246

News discourse of teachers’ suicide: Education and journalism: Media coverage ofan educational crisisWanda Luen Wun Siu 247–267

Pre-imperial Chinese: Its hurdles towards becoming a world languageDan Lu 268–279

Book review

Critical Zone 2: A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge. Edited by Q.S. Tong,Wang Shouren, and Douglas KerrReviewed by Jeffrey Kinkley 281–284

Special thanks to our reviewers 285

Contents of Volume 18 287–288


Linguistic Field(s): Translation                             Writing Systems                             Applied Linguistics                             Sociolinguistics

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