Journal of Asian Pacific Communication
The Journal of Asian Pacific Communication (JAPC) is an international journal whose academic mission is to bring together specialists from diverse scholarly disciplines to discuss and interpret language in communication issues as they pertain to people of Asian Pacific regions and in their immigrant communities worldwide. The journal’s academic orientation is generalist, passionately committed to interdisciplinary approaches to language in communication studies relating to people in and from Asian Pacific regions.
Thematic issues of previously published issues of JAPC include Cross-Cultural Communications: Literature, Language, Ideas; Sociolinguistics in China; Japan Communication Issues; Mass Media in the Asian Pacific; Comic Art in Asia, Historical Literacy, and Political Roots; Communication Gains through Student Exchanges & Study Abroad; Language Issues in Malaysia; English Language Development in East Asia; The Teachings of Writing in the Pacific Basin; Language and Identity in Asia; The Economics of Language in the Asian Pacific; Culture, Contexts, and Communication in Multicultural Australia and New Zealand; Media Discourse in Greater China; Institutional Politeness in (South) East Asia.
JAPC publishes its articles Online First.
JAPC was previously published by Multilingual Matters (vols. 1-7) and Ablex (vols. 8-9).
Board
Howard Giles
| University of California at Santa Barbara
Herbert D. Pierson
| St. John's University
Mary Jiang Bresnahan
| Michigan State University
Deborah A. Cai
| Temple University
Kara Chan
| HK Baptist University
Florian Coulmas
| University of Duisburg-Essen
Alan Hirvela
| Ohio State University
Janet Holmes
| Victoria University of Wellington
Li Wei
| UCL IOE
Hiroshi Ota
| Aichi Shukutoku University
Joseph P. Forgas
| University of New South Wales
Danjie Su
| University of ArkansasSubscription Info
General information about our electronic journals.
Subscription rates
All prices for print + online include postage/handling.
| Online-only | Print + online | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 33 (2023): 2 issues; ca. 320 pp. | EUR 251.00 | EUR 297.00 | |
| Volume 32 (2022): 2 issues; ca. 320 pp. | EUR 251.00 | EUR 291.00 |
Individuals may apply for a special subscription rate of EUR 75.00 (online‑only: EUR 70.00)
Private subscriptions are for personal use only, and must be pre-paid and ordered directly from the publisher.
For Volumes 1-7 please contact Multilingual Matters.
Available back-volumes
| Online-only | Print + online | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Complete backset (Vols. 10‒31; 2000‒2021) |
44 issues; 7,040 pp. |
EUR 5,072.00 | EUR 5,428.00 |
| Volumes 30‒31 (2020‒2021) | 2 issues; avg. 320 pp. | EUR 251.00 each | EUR 291.00 each |
| Volume 29 (2019) | 2 issues; 320 pp. | EUR 246.00 | EUR 285.00 |
| Volume 28 (2018) | 2 issues; 320 pp. | EUR 239.00 | EUR 277.00 |
| Volume 27 (2017) | 2 issues; 320 pp. | EUR 232.00 | EUR 269.00 |
| Volume 26 (2016) | 2 issues; 320 pp. | EUR 232.00 | EUR 261.00 |
| Volume 25 (2015) | 2 issues; 320 pp. | EUR 232.00 | EUR 253.00 |
| Volume 24 (2014) | 2 issues; 320 pp. | EUR 232.00 | EUR 246.00 |
| Volume 23 (2013) | 2 issues; 320 pp. | EUR 232.00 | EUR 239.00 |
| Volumes 10‒22 (2000‒2012) | 2 issues; avg. 320 pp. | EUR 225.00 each | EUR 232.00 each |