19.2509, TOC: Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 18/2 (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 and
young adults 
Mei-Chen Lin and Yan Bing Zhang 135-156  

Mitigation on the minibus: Politeness as variable 
John Gibbons 157-165  

China's minorities without written scripts: The case of education access among
the Dongxiang 
Jiayi Wang and Gerard A. Postiglione 166-190  

Cantonese as written standard? 
Don Snow 190-208  

Cultural values and aging in Chinese television commercials 
Yan Bing Zhang, Yi Song and Leilani Jensen Carver 209-224  

Communication across languages and cultures: A perspective of brand name
translation from English to Chinese 
Jian Sang and Grace Zhang 225-246  

News discourse of teachers' suicide: Education and journalism: Media coverage of
an educational crisis 
Wanda Luen Wun Siu 247-267  

Pre-imperial Chinese: Its hurdles towards becoming a world language 
Dan Lu 268-279  

Book review   

Critical Zone 2: A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge. Edited by Q.S. Tong,
Wang Shouren, and Douglas Kerr 
Reviewed 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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