SubjectsLinguistics / Altaic languages
Journals
ISSN 2665-9336 | E‑ISSN 2665‑9344
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication
Edited by Henning Klöter and Ke Zhang
ISSN 0957-6851 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9838
Proper Names
Edited by Chia-Jung Pan and Yang Huang
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:1 (2025) v, 252 pp.
Asian Perspectives on Queer Discourse
Edited by Ke Zhang and Chao Lu
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33:2 (2023) vi, 152 pp.
Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective
Edited by Qiongpeng Luo, Zhiguo Xie and Xiao Li
Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains
Edited by Alexander R. Coupe, Randy J. LaPolla and Hideo Sawada
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:2 (2023) v, 218 pp.
Reconsidering Language and Gender in Contemporary Japan and among the Japanese Diaspora amid the #MeToo Movement
Edited by Kikuko Omori and Hiroshi Ota
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 33:1 (2023) v, 110 pp.
Classifiers
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:2 (2022) v, 227 pp.
Identity and Communication in Asian Contexts
Edited by Asmah Haji Omar and Michael Dimitrios Hadzantonis
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32:1 (2022) v, 191 pp.
Language and Islam in the Asian Pacific
Edited by Ali H. Al-Hoorie
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 32:2 (2022) v, 95 pp.
The Syllable and its Prosody in Chinese
Edited by Lian-Hee Wee, Feng Wang and Yuan Liang
Language and Communication of Asian Diaspora Communities in Europe
Edited by Zi Wang and Florian Coulmas
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 31:2 (2021) v, 175 pp.
Preparing Teachers for Addressing the Sociocultural Issues with Asian Pacific Immigrants and Refugees
Edited by Yin Lam Lee-Johnson and Hsiao-Chin Kuo
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 31:1 (2021) v, 121 pp.
Developments in Diglossic Settings in the Asian Pacific Region
Edited by Marinus van den Berg
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30:1/2 (2020) vi, 310 pp.
Sound, Form, and Meaning of Chinese Dialects
Edited by Ik-sang Eom
Vagueness and Elasticity of 'Sort of' in TV Discussion Discourse in the Asian Pacific
Edited by Vahid Parvaresh and Grace Zhang
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29:1 (2019) v, 147 pp.
The interface of semantics & etymology, morpho-syntax, and pragmatics in Chinese
Edited by Jeeyoung Peck
Strategic Communication: Beyond nation cultural adaption, images and identity
Edited by Hassan Abu Bakar and Bahtiar Bin Mohamad
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:1 (2018) v, 194 pp.
The Roles of Communication on a Regional Conflict: Antipathy, Nationalism, and Conflicts among China, Japan, and South Korea
Edited by Eung-jun Min
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 27:2 (2017) v, 111 pp.
Asian Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca and Identity
Edited by Chit Cheung Matthew Sung
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:2 (2016) vi, 182 pp.
Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape: Essays in honor of Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan
Edited by Mine Güven, Didar Akar, Balkız Öztürk and Meltem Kelepir
Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape provides in-depth analyses of different aspects of Turkish in the domains of phonology, morphology and syntax, discourse and language acquisition relevant to recent theoretical discussions. While some of the papers in the volume offer new analyses to known… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 175] 2016. xviii, 202 pp.
Restructuring Chinese Speech Communities: Urbanization, language contact and identity formation
Edited by Marinus van den Berg
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 26:1 (2016) v, 173 pp.
Explored but not Assumed: Revisiting Commonalities in Asian Pacific Communication
Edited by Hui-Ching Chang and Ling Chen
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:1 (2015) v, 164 pp.
Media and communication as antecedents to the transformation agenda in Malaysia: Challenges and realities
Edited by Ali Salman
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:2 (2015) vi, 157 pp.
Anxiety, Insecurity, and Border Crossing: Language Contact in a Globalizing World
Edited by Mie Hiramoto and Joseph Sung-Yul Park
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:2 (2014) vi, 184 pp.
Animation in Asia
Edited by John A. Lent
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 23:1 (2013) v, 177 pp.
Trends in Media and Communication Research in Malaysia
Edited by Fauziah Ahmad
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 23:2 (2013) vi, 134 pp.
Language Management Approach: Probing the Concept of "Noting"
Edited by Helen Marriott and Jiří Nekvapil
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 22:2 (2012) vi, 163 pp.
Mongolian
Juha A. Janhunen
Mongolian is the principal language spoken by some five million ethnic Mongols living in Outer and Inner Mongolia, as well as in adjacent parts of Russia and China. The spoken language is divided into a number of mutually intelligible dialects, while for writing two separate written languages are… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 19] 2012. xv, 320 pp.
Cultural China in Discursive Transformation
Edited by Shi-xu
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 21:2 (2011) 160 pp.
Institutional Politeness in (South) East Asia
Edited by Francesca Bargiela and Dániel Z. Kádár
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 21:1 (2011) vi, 158 pp.
Medical Communication in the Asia Context
Edited by M. Agnes Kang and Olga Zayts-Spence
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 20:2 (2010) vi, 166 pp.
Biliterate Asian Students' Literacy Practices in North America
Edited by Youngjoo Yi and Alan Hirvela
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 19:1 (2009) 180 pp.
Media Discourse in Greater China
Edited by Sai-hua Kuo and Doreen D. Wu
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 19:2 (2009) v, 166 pp.
Chinese Students: Perspectives on their social, cognitive, and linguistic investment in English medium interaction
Edited by Sophie Arkoudis and Chris Davison
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 18:1 (2008) 140 pp.
Culture, Contexts, and Communication in Multicultural Australia and New Zealand: An Introduction
Edited by Yunxia Zhu and Herbert Hildebrandt
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 17:1 (2007) 176 pp.
Asian Business Discourse(s) Part II
Edited by Francesca Bargiela
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:1 (2006) 164 pp.
Language Planning and Varieties of (Modern Standard) Chinese
Edited by Minglang Zhou
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:2 (2006) 208 pp.
Asian Business Discourse(s) Part I
Edited by Francesca Bargiela
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:2 (2005) 121 pp.
Case, Referentiality and Phrase Structure
Balkız Öztürk
This book proposes that the two “independent” conditions on argumenthood, namely, case and referentiality, are strongly correlated and have to be associated with each other in syntax as syntactic features. It shows that languages exhibit variation in the way this association is implemented in their… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 77] 2005. viii, 268 pp.
Multiple Perspectives on L1 and L2 Academic Literacy in Asia Pacific and Diaspora Contexts
Edited by Xiaoming Li and Christine Pearson Casanave
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 15:1 (2005) iv, 207 pp.
Academic Interaction
Edited by Helen Marriott
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 14:1 (2004) 199 pp.
De-/Re-Contextualizing Conference Interpreting: Interpreters in the Ivory Tower?
Ebru Diriker
This groundbreaking study explores Simultaneous Conference Interpreting (SI) by focusing on interpreters as professionals working in socio-cultural contexts and on the interdependency between these contexts and actual SI behavior. While previous research on SI has been dominated by cognitive and… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 53] 2004. x, 223 pp.
Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia
Edited by Edward J. Vajda
The twelve articles in this volume describe Yeniseic, Samoyedic and Siberian Turkic languages as a linguistic complex of great interest to typologists, grammarians, diachronic and synchronic linguists, as well as cultural anthropologists. The articles demonstrate how interdependent the disparate… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 262] 2004. x, 275 pp.
Communication and Culture in Korea: At the crosswinds of tradition and change
Edited by Eung-jun Min and Eunkyong Yook
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 13:1 (2003) iv, 163 pp.
Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linguistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson
Edited by Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite
This volume is a collection of seventeen papers, on languages of all three indigenous Caucasian families as well as other languages spoken in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Several papers are concerned with diachronic questions, either within individual families, or at deeper time depths. read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 246] 2003. xxviii, 426 pp.
Language, Social Structure, and Culture: A genre analysis of cooking classes in Japan and America
Patricia Mayes
Comparing Japanese and American interaction, Language, Social Structure, and Culture argues that language use is instrumental in the construction of social structure and culture. In order to ground the work in empirical evidence, verbal interaction in similar situations – Japanese and American… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 109] 2003. xiv, 228 pp.
Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality of place, the topic-comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse
Senko K. Maynard
Linguistic Emotivity explores expressive and emotive meanings in Japanese from the perspective of the Place of Negotiation theory. The Place of Negotiation theory provides a framework for understanding how linguistic signs function in the place of communication (in cognitive, emotive, and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 97] 2002. xiv, 481 pp.
Maintaining and Setting Standards and Language Variation in the Asian Pacific Region
Edited by Amy B.M. Tsui
Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 12:1 (2002) vi, 184 pp.
Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish
Edited by Arın Bayraktaroğlu and Maria Sifianou
This volume includes 14 papers investigating politeness phenomena in Greece and Turkey, the cultural cross-roads of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. It reflects current research and provides observations of and findings in patterns of linguistic politeness in a geographical area other than the… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 88] 2001. xiv, 435 pp.
The Verb in Turkish
Edited by Eser Erguvanlı Taylan
This book is a collection of articles on the properties of the verb in Turkish as the core element of clause structure, by linguists from different parts of the world. Articles present the most recent analyses on the Turkish language carried out in various theoretical orientations within the… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 44] 2001. xvii, 267 pp.
Korean
Suk-Jin Chang
Spoken by nearly 70 million people not only within the Korean Peninsula but also in five continents, Korean is one of a dozen major languages of the world. Yet outside Korea it is not as much studied as it should be, nor has it acquired commensurate international recognition. With its difficult… read more[London Oriental and African Language Library, 4] 1996. xviii, 252 pp.
Categories and Case: The sentence structure of Korean
William O’Grady
The principal objective of this book is to provide a unified treatment of morphological case in Korean. Focussing on the nominative, accusative and dative suffixes, the author seeks to show that each of these morphemes consistently encodes a corresponding combinatorial relation in the 'surface'… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 71] 1991. vii, 294 pp.
Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics
Leo Loveday
Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics provides a treasure of information on the Japanese language and the social and cultural system it has developed and is embedded in. To the non-specialist, it opens an unknown world. To the specialist it offers theoretical and methodological perspectives… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:1] 1986. xi, 153 pp.
Studies in Turkish Linguistics
Edited by Dan I. Slobin and Karl Zimmer
Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China. Turkic, in turn, belongs to the Altaic family of languages. This book deals with the morphological and syntactic, semantic and… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 8] 1986. vi, 300 pp.
Syntaxe des verbes de mouvement en coréen contemporain
Chai-Song Hong
Ce travail est une description syntaxique des constructions des verbes de mouvement (Vmt) en coréen contemporain. L’objectif immédiat est the caractériser syntaxiquement les phrases acceptant un Vmt et de décrire leurs propriétés formelles. Dans cette optique, on doit: construire sur la base de… read more[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 12] 1985. xv, 309 pp.
Die türkische Sprache in Ungarn im siebzehnten Jahrhundert
Jenö U. Németh
[Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica, 13] 1970. 281 pp., 90 ills.