Journal of Asian Pacific Communication

Editors
ORCID logoHenning Klöter | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | henning.kloeter at hu-berlin.de
Ke Zhang | Shandong University | ke.zhang at email.sdu.edu.cn
Consulting Editors
Marinus van den Berg | Leiden University
ORCID logoHoward Giles | University of California at Santa Barbara
ORCID logoHerbert D. Pierson | St. John's University
Founding Editors
ORCID logoHoward Giles | University of California at Santa Barbara
ORCID logoHerbert D. Pierson | St. John's University

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).

ISSN: 0957-6851 | E-ISSN: 1569-9838
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/japc
Latest articles

12 November 2024

  • Motivations behind TikTok content creation among Gen Z expatriates: A qualitative study
    Duong Hoai Lan, Vo Thi Kim OanhTran Thi Kim Cuc | JAPC 34:2 (2024) pp. 214–254
  • 28 October 2024

  • Evolvement and use of stigmatized expressions in computer-mediated communication
    Wenwen Geng | JAPC 34:2 (2024) pp. 180–213
  • 4 October 2024

  • North Korean propaganda and counterpropaganda on YouTube: Attribute agendas and relationships with network strengths
    Seok Kang | JAPC 34:2 (2024) pp. 133–155
  • 9 September 2024

  • Janet Y. Chen. 2023. The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960
    Reviewed by David Holm | JAPC 34:2 (2024) pp. 259–263
  • 8 July 2024

  • Unearthing the disabling perplexities of a Filipino PLHIV online community on X’s #PLHIVDiaries as socially shared inquiry fostering pakikipagkapwa
    George Vincent F. Gamayo, Yhna Therese P. Santos, Vonn Vincent V. TanchuanJuven Niño A. Villacastin | JAPC 34:2 (2024) pp. 156–179
  • 22 December 2023

  • A Welcome and Farwell Message
    Howard Giles, Herbert PiersonMarinus van den Berg
  • 21 December 2023

  • John A. LentXu Ying. 2023. Comics Art in China
    Reviewed by Lena HenningsenDamian Mandzunowski | JAPC 34:2 (2024) pp. 255–258
  • 25 September 2023

  • Local language in the context of political divides: An evaluation of local language use in a voter-information campaign in the Philippines using Facebook split tests
    Ronald U. Mendoza, Cristine Lian C. Domingo, Gabrielle Ann S. MendozaJurel K. Yap | JAPC 34:1 (2024) pp. 1–22
  • 28 August 2023

  • Xu Fang. 2021. Silencing Shanghai – Language and Identity in Urban China
    Reviewed by Richard VanNess Simmons | JAPC 34:1 (2024) pp. 112–118
  • 25 July 2023

  • “I am who I am”: Mitigating LGBTQ identities in heteronormative society
    Su-Hie Ting, Jiin-Yih Yeo, Collin JeromeHsin-Nie Ling | JAPC 33:2 (2023) pp. 204–226
  • 20 June 2023

  • Sexual anti-languages on social media: A Chinese case study
    Chao Lu, Jingyuan ZhangKe Zhang | JAPC 33:2 (2023) pp. 137–158
  • 22 May 2023

  • Andy KirkpatrickWang Linux. 2021. Is English an Asian Language?
    Reviewed by Jette G. Hansen Edwards | JAPC 34:1 (2024) pp. 119–127
  • 30 March 2023

  • Japan’s struggle to improve gender equality: Japanese culture, gender role/expectation through family, societal and media dialogues
    Kikuko OmoriHiroshi Ota | JAPC 33:1 (2023) pp. 1–11
  • 24 February 2023

  • Stuart PriceBen Harbisher (Eds). 2022. Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse
    Reviewed by Wei LiChao Lu | JAPC 34:1 (2024) pp. 128–131
  • 20 February 2023

  • Yuko Kawai. 2020. A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness: Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan
    Reviewed by Dan T. Molden | JAPC 33:1 (2023) pp. 108–110
  • 18 November 2022

  • William L. Leap. 2020. Language Before Stonewall: Language, Sexuality, History
    Reviewed by Paul Ayodele Onanuga | JAPC 33:2 (2023) pp. 258–262
  • 15 November 2022

  • Queering gender in Indonesian Instagram: Case Study of Mimi Peri
    Mega Subekti, Aquarini PriyatnaAri J. Adipurwawidjana | JAPC 33:2 (2023) pp. 179–203
  • 28 October 2022

  • Negotiating the language of gender and sexuality: A case study of educational materials from Cambodia
    Benedict J. L. RowlettPutsalun Chhim | JAPC 33:2 (2023) pp. 111–136
  • 8 August 2022

  • Othering within the gay dating community? Tensions in gender identity representations between Filipino gays and the bakla in mobile dating applications
    Jonalou S. Labor, Christian Jaycee SamonteNorberto D. Bana | JAPC 33:2 (2023) pp. 227–246
  • 4 August 2022

  • Language contact across ethnic boundaries: The case of the Chittagong Hill Tract in Bangladesh
    Razaul Karim Faquire | JAPC 32:1 (2022) pp. 172–191
  • Intersectionalities of gender, ethnicity, and leadership in the narratives of Meranao women in the Philippines
    Lynrose Jane Genon | JAPC 32:1 (2022) pp. 154–171
  • Malay, in the shadows: Anthropological reflections of Malay and the Wayang Kulit
    Michael Hadzantonis | JAPC 32:1 (2022) pp. 52–82
  • Communicating time, place, and history: A genealogical analysis of Prolung Khmer ( ព្រលឹងខ្មែរ )
    Susan NeedhamKaren Quintiliani | JAPC 32:1 (2022) p. 6
  • Language contact and areal convergence in North Asia: The case of Ket
    Andrey NefedovElizaveta Kotorova | JAPC 32:1 (2022) pp. 108–132
  • Negation during communication in Amele: A morphological analysis
    Masahiko Nose | JAPC 32:1 (2022) pp. 25–51
  • Gendering prosody in communication: The case of Standard Chinese
    Zuzana Pospechova | JAPC 32:1 (2022) pp. 133–153
  • Chinese and Japanese ‘laughter’ onomatopoeia: A contrastive analysis
    Xia Yihui | JAPC 32:1 (2022) p. 83
  • Language and Islam in the Asian Pacific: Introducing the special issue
    Ali H. Al-Hoorie | JAPC 32:2 (2022) pp. 193–197
  • Foreword
    JAPC 32:1 (2022) pp. 1–5
  • 19 July 2022

  • Transmission of gender ideology through family discourse: Japanese mothers and their career choices
    Makiko Imamura, Elizabeth DowNaoko Uehara | JAPC 33:1 (2023) pp. 12–37
  • Travis S.K. Kong. 2019. Oral Histories of Older Gay Men in Hong Kong: Unspoken but Unforgotten
    Reviewed by Chao Lu | JAPC 33:2 (2023) pp. 251–254
  • 5 July 2022

  • Lik Sam Chan. 2021. The politics of dating apps: Gender, sexuality, and emergent publics in urban China
    Reviewed by Lok Tung Chui | JAPC 33:2 (2023) pp. 247–250
  • 31 May 2022

  • Coming out for another: Self-positioning against ‘closeted’ gay men in Indian immigrants’ coming-out narratives
    Ping-Hsuan Wang | JAPC 33:2 (2023) pp. 159–178
  • 23 May 2022

  • Natalia Konstantinovskaia. 2020. The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies
    Reviewed by Hannah E. Dahlberg-Dodd | JAPC 33:2 (2023) pp. 255–257
  • 19 April 2022

  • Language, Islam, and Muslim societies: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific
    Sumanto Al Qurtuby | JAPC 32:2 (2022) pp. 276–287
  • 25 March 2022

  • Singapore hawker centres: A linguistic landscape of identity, diversity, and continuity
    Cher Leng Lee | JAPC 34:1 (2024) pp. 23–55
  • 22 March 2022

  • Breaking the mold: The influence of CEO gender and ethnicity on crisis communication effectiveness in Japan
    Katharina BarkleyEmi Okamoto | JAPC 33:1 (2023) pp. 38–60
  • 18 February 2022

  • Foreign-born instructor humor perception and effects on self-perceived affective and cognitive learning: Comparison of Thai and United States classrooms
    Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly, Minna Mars LogemannKevin Bryant | JAPC 34:1 (2024) pp. 56–82
  • 15 February 2022

  • Islam, language and intra-Asian student mobility: A case study of three Indonesian male students in Saudi Arabia
    Osman Z. Barnawi | JAPC 32:2 (2022) pp. 214–235
  • Russell Jeung, Karen Umemoto, Harvey Dong, Eric Mar, Lisa Hirai TsuchitaniArnold Pan. 2019. Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies
    Reviewed by Kristina S. Vassil | JAPC 33:1 (2023) pp. 103–107
  • 8 October 2021

  • A cure for woundless pain: Consumption of innocence in Japanese idol culture
    Yasheng She | JAPC 33:1 (2023) p. 87
  • 16 August 2021

  • Homonational tongue? Onē-Kotoba (Queen’s Language) among Tokyo amateur gay volleyballers
    Kyohei Itakura | JAPC 33:1 (2023) pp. 61–86
  • 4 February 2021

  • This is the worst of times; this is the best of times: Juxtaposing the crisis and opportunities for Asians in the global context
    Yin Lam Lee-JohnsonHsiao-Chin Kuo | JAPC 31:1 (2021) pp. 1–14
  • 22 January 2021

  • A genre-based investigation of the “About Us” section of private hospitals’ websites
    Nasser Salimi Aghbolagh, Azirah HashimCecilia Cheong Yin Mei | JAPC 34:1 (2024) p. 83
  • 7 January 2021

  • The dynamics of contacts and multilingual practices in the Chinese community in Britain: Revisiting Social Network Analysis
    Wei Li | JAPC 31:2 (2021) pp. 279–297
  • 29 October 2020

  • Fluidity and diversity of Japanese communities in London
    Kazuko MiyakeNoriko Iwasaki | JAPC 31:2 (2021) pp. 260–278
  • 13 October 2020

  • Language transmission among multilingual Chinese immigrant families in the Northern Netherlands
    Eva J. DaussàYeshan Qian | JAPC 31:2 (2021) pp. 159–190
  • 9 October 2020

  • Translanguaging as ideology: Responding to social and linguistic diversity in the classroom of Japanese as a heritage language schools in England
    Nahoko Mulvey | JAPC 31:2 (2021) pp. 236–259
  • East Asian Migrants in Western Europe
    Florian CoulmasZi Wang | JAPC 31:2 (2021) pp. 123–136
  • 5 October 2020

  • Transmission of Japanese as a heritage language in the bilingual polity of Catalonia: A case study
    Makiko Fukuda | JAPC 31:2 (2021) pp. 191–212
  • Chineseness as a moving target: Language and identity transformations in the Chinese diaspora in Eindhoven, The Netherlands
    Jinling LiSjaak Kroon | JAPC 31:2 (2021) pp. 137–158
  • Hidden language ‘battles’ in the diaspora: Linguistic identities and ideologies towards home and host languages among Pakistanis in Barcelona
    Maria Sabaté-Dalmau | JAPC 31:2 (2021) pp. 213–235
  • 17 September 2020

  • Agency and pedagogy in literacy education: Toward culturally sustaining pedagogy for immigrant adolescents
    Heeok Jeong | JAPC 31:1 (2021) pp. 79–99
  • Enhancing Asian immigrants’ and international students’ learning: Faculty cultural awareness and pedagogy training
    Ellen Yeh, Monika Jaiswal-Oliver, Rashmi SharmaGuofang Wan | JAPC 31:1 (2021) pp. 100–121
  • 10 September 2020

  • Teachers’ collaboration-mediated practices in meeting the needs of refugee EAL students in the Victorian secondary science classroom
    Minh Hue Nguyen | JAPC 31:1 (2021) pp. 38–57
  • 8 September 2020

  • Deconstructing discourses of diversity: Envisioning possibilities from impossibilities in multicultural education in South Korea
    Heejin Song | JAPC 31:1 (2021) pp. 58–78
  • 1 September 2020

  • Analyzing Burmese refugee children’s multimodal work: A case study
    Aijuan Cun | JAPC 31:1 (2021) pp. 15–37
  • 30 June 2020

  • Natives, migrants and communication practices in the Xi’an speech community: The role of discourse communities and the Putonghua koine community in China
    Marinus van den Berg | JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) pp. 172–216
  • Language behavior and identity change in the Fangshang Hui community of Xi’an
    Hongjie Dong | JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) pp. 255–272
  • Borders and bridges: The politics of language identity in Hong Kong
    Jette G. Hansen Edwards | JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) pp. 115–138
  • Singapore bilingual education: One policy, many interpretations
    Cher Leng LeeChiew Pheng Phua | JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) p. 90
  • Dialect and Putonghua in Xi’an city: The case of Beishan Menkou urban village
    Qiong LiYuying Wang | JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) pp. 217–254
  • Dimensions of language education policy in Asia
    Anthony J. LiddicoatAndy Kirkpatrick | JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) p. 7
  • A restudy of postcolonial Palau after two decades: Changing views on multilingualism in the Pacific
    Kazuko Matsumoto | JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) pp. 34–59
  • Chinese urban language in historical perspective: Guānhuà and dialect in the late Qīng
    Richard VanNess Simmons | JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) pp. 139–171
  • Malaysia’s linguistic landscape and language practices in Chinese private clinics: Focus on the Klang Valley
    Xiaomei Wang, Jin Zhuo LeeYi Chern Koh | JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) pp. 60–89
  • Media reporting of cyberbullying: A framing analysis of The Star
    Lai Fong Yang | JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) pp. 290–309
  • English-dominated Chinatown: A quantitative investigation of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Singapore
    Hui Zhang, Ruanni TupasAman Norhaida | JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) pp. 273–289
  • Prologue marking the 30th anniversary of publication
    JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) pp. 1–2
  • Introduction: Developments in diglossic settings in the Asian Pacific region
    Marinus van den Berg | JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) pp. 3–6
  • List of reviewers
    JAPC 30:1-2 (2020) p. 310
  • 13 January 2020

  • The use of language and religion from a sociolinguistic perspective
    Ali Alsaawi | JAPC 32:2 (2022) pp. 236–253
  • 19 December 2019

  • The role of Ulama (Islamic religious leaders) in countering anti-vaccination rhetoric in Indonesia
    N. Nurlaela AriefSiti Karlinah | JAPC 32:2 (2022) pp. 254–271
  • 17 December 2019

  • Language, religion, and communication: The case of Islam and Arabic in the Asia-Pacific
    Ahmed Saad Al Shlowiy | JAPC 32:2 (2022) pp. 198–213
  • Patrick Eisenlohr. 2019. Sounding Islam Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World
    Reviewed by Praveen Raj | JAPC 32:2 (2022) pp. 272–275
  • 6 August 2019

  • “Doing this kind of linguistics, you do feel like you’re making a difference in the world”: Postgraduate linguistics students learning in the field
    Nicola Daly | JAPC 29:2 (2019) pp. 281–299
  • Comparative rhetoric and emic approaches to Chinese persuasive strategies in hotel discourse
    Donghong Liu | JAPC 29:2 (2019) pp. 168–187
  • English within Japanese: Loanwords from English in Japanese as a vocabulary pool for EFL education
    Hironori Nishi | JAPC 29:2 (2019) pp. 211–229
  • White cyber-protest in a Facebook group: Articulating colorblind racialization in response to perceived South Korean televised “xenophobia”
    David C. Oh | JAPC 29:2 (2019) pp. 149–167
  • Stretching the boundaries: Malaysian ESL learners’ evaluative reactions to inner circle English accents
    Zahariah Pilus, Nur Shahida Zakaria, Muhamad Khairul ZakariaRidwan Wahid | JAPC 29:2 (2019) pp. 300–321
  • What can we learn about social media influence in the Malaysian 14th General Election?
    Samsudin A. Rahim | JAPC 29:2 (2019) pp. 264–280
  • Stereotype formation: An examination of three contesting models in Vietnam
    Yunying Zhang, Eun-Jeong Han, Phi Phuong TranAlexis Tan | JAPC 29:2 (2019) pp. 230–263
  • Media credibility: The impact of privately-owned websites on state-owned televisions in the context of China
    Hongzhong Zhang, Juana DuRui Wang | JAPC 29:2 (2019) pp. 188–210
  • Acknowledgment of reviewers
    JAPC 29:2 (2019) p. 322
  • 16 May 2019

  • Sort of in Australian English: The elasticity of a pragmatic marker
    Jean Mulder, Cara Penry WilliamsErin Moore | JAPC 29:1 (2019) p. 9
  • Pragmatic functions of ‘sort of’ in Persian: A vague language perspective
    Vahid ParvareshAmir Sheikhan | JAPC 29:1 (2019) p. 86
  • ‘Sort of’ in Indonesian television discourse
    Indah Tri Purwanti | JAPC 29:1 (2019) pp. 111–132
  • On the functions of sort of in New Zealand TV programs
    Peyman G. P. Sabet | JAPC 29:1 (2019) pp. 33–61
  • The pragmatic use of ‘sort of’ in TV forums: A Chinese perspective
    Grace Zhang | JAPC 29:1 (2019) pp. 62–85
  • Acknowledgements
    JAPC 29:1 (2019) p. 1
  • Dániel Z. Kádár. 2017. Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction
    Reviewed by Lili GongYongping Ran | JAPC 29:1 (2019) pp. 133–139
  • Chiara FedrianiAndrea Sansò (Eds.). 2017. Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles
    Reviewed by Peyman G. P. Sabet | JAPC 29:1 (2019) pp. 140–147
  • ‘Sort of’ across languages of the Asia and Oceania regions
    Vahid ParvareshGrace Zhang | JAPC 29:1 (2019) pp. 2–8
  • 10 August 2018

  • Attitudes to Mandarin Chinese varieties in Singapore
    Francesco Cavallaro, Mark Fifer Seilhamer, Ho Yen YeeNg Bee Chin | JAPC 28:2 (2018) pp. 195–225
  • Expected feedback and successful adaptation to a multinational organization (MNO): A comparison between American and Japanese employees
    Kumi Ishii | JAPC 28:2 (2018) pp. 303–322
  • Social support and mental health: An analysis of online support forums for Asian immigrant women
    Eyun-Jung KiJooYoung Jang | JAPC 28:2 (2018) pp. 226–250
  • Migrant youth identity work in transnational new mediascape: A case study of what it means to be Korean for migrant adolescents
    Sujin Kim | JAPC 28:2 (2018) pp. 281–302
  • Gentle masculinity in East Asia: ‘Herbivore Men’ and interlocutor constructed language
    Judit Kroo | JAPC 28:2 (2018) pp. 251–280
  • Language attitudes by university students in mainland China: Results of a survey in three cities
    Binmei Liu, Pengpeng Feng, Qingtao Feng, Jihong LiYuping Li | JAPC 28:2 (2018) pp. 345–368
  • Justification and knowledge: Prospecting the modality of Indonesians’ informal political discussions on Facebook
    Hamideh Molaei | JAPC 28:2 (2018) pp. 323–344
  • Qing Zhang. 2018. Language and social change in China: Undoing commonness through Cosmopolitan Mandarin
    Reviewed by Ke Zhang | JAPC 28:2 (2018) pp. 369–371
  • 19 January 2018

  • Generational differences in workplace communication: Perspectives of female leaders and their direct reports in Malaysia
    Marlin Marissa Abdul MalekAbd Rahim Jaguli | JAPC 28:1 (2018) pp. 129–150
  • Towards measuring internal crisis communication: A qualitative study
    Adamu Abbas Adamu, Bahtiar Bin MohamadNik Adzrieman Bin Abdul Rahman | JAPC 28:1 (2018) pp. 107–128
  • Theorizing corporate-community relationships and the role of contextual factors in peacebuilding and beyond
    Stacey L. Connaughton, Kelly S. Vibber, Arunima Krishna, Jasmine R. LinabaryNeva Štumberger | JAPC 28:1 (2018) pp. 1–19
  • The vicarious and source credibility grid across cultures
    Keith E. Dilbeck, Andrés S. Domínguez, Jon Dornaletetxe RuizMike R. Allen | JAPC 28:1 (2018) p. 83
  • Communicating archaeological heritage: Strategically connecting the past to the present from community perspectives
    Shuhaida Md Noor, Mastura JaafarYugeetha Balan | JAPC 28:1 (2018) pp. 151–171
  • Understanding online consumption of public affairs news in Malaysia: A strategic approach
    Bahiyah Omar, Nurzali IsmailNg See Kee | JAPC 28:1 (2018) pp. 172–194
  • Advertising appeals and Malaysian culture norms: Scale content validation
    Syed Hassan Raza, Hassan Abu BakarBahtiar Mohamad | JAPC 28:1 (2018) pp. 61–82
  • Ethical leadership: From Western foundation to Chinese context
    Vivian C. Sheer, Shuang LiuLei Huang | JAPC 28:1 (2018) pp. 20–40
  • Managing diversity in higher education: A strategic communication approach
    Norhafezah Yusof, Rosna Awang Hashim, Nena P. ValdezAizan Yaacob | JAPC 28:1 (2018) pp. 41–60
  • 20 November 2017

  • Inter-country relationship and mass media: An ego network analysis of how the Korean media covered the announcement of China’s Air Defense Identification Zone in November 2013
    Boyeon HanHochang Shin | JAPC 27:2 (2017) pp. 173–195
  • Investigating the role of non-governmental organizations in new public diplomacy: Autonomy and collaboration between the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) and the Korean government on national reputation
    Jiyoon (Karen) HanSung-Un Yang | JAPC 27:2 (2017) pp. 196–212
  • International media framing: A case study of Korean-Japanese territorial disputes
    Won Yong JangEdward Frederick | JAPC 27:2 (2017) pp. 213–231
  • Nationalism and international disputes in China: Implications for transnational corporations as corporate diplomats
    Lisa TamSoojin Kim | JAPC 27:2 (2017) pp. 246–263
  • Nationalism, public opinion, and dispute resolution: The Dokdo/Takeshima dispute
    Krista E. WiegandAjin Choi | JAPC 27:2 (2017) pp. 232–245
  • Virtual round table discussion: Political, symbolic, psychological, strategic and economic perspectives on territorial disputes among China, Japan, and South Korea
    JAPC 27:2 (2017) pp. 264–277
  • The roles of communication on a regional conflict: Antipathy, nationalism, and conflicts among China, Japan, and South Korea
    Eungjun Min | JAPC 27:2 (2017) pp. 167–172
  • 23 May 2017

  • Protest and protect: Chinese urban mothers’ perception of smartphone (tablet) in their everyday lives’ communication and interaction with young children
    Huan Chen, Liling ZhouShufang Han | JAPC 27:1 (2017) p. 99
  • The demobilizing potential of interpersonal conflict in the Pacific: The case of Guam
    Francis Dalisay, Masahiro YamamotoMatthew J. Kushin | JAPC 27:1 (2017) pp. 22–42
  • Do important questions demand respectful replies? Analyzing televised political interviews in Japan
    Ofer FeldmanKen Kinoshita | JAPC 27:1 (2017) pp. 121–157
  • Examining political efficacy among Malaysian voters: The role of traditional and new media
    Syed Arabi Idid, Ismail Sheikh Yusuf AhmedRizwanah Souket | JAPC 27:1 (2017) pp. 43–64
  • Globalism and cultural tensions: Discursive constructions of the English language in China’s print media
    Mo LiMohammed Albakry | JAPC 27:1 (2017) pp. 1–21
  • Investigating why Japanese students remain silent in Australian university classrooms: The influences of culture and identity
    Yusuke SasakiEvan Ortlieb | JAPC 27:1 (2017) pp. 85–98
  • Unpacking cultural conceptualizations in Chinese English
    Zhichang XuFarzad Sharifian | JAPC 27:1 (2017) pp. 65–84
  • Shi-xu. 2014. Chinese Discourse Studies
    Reviewed by Yanhua Cheng | JAPC 27:1 (2017) pp. 161–164
  • Hui-Ching ChangRichard Holt. 2014. Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan
    Reviewed by Jennifer M. Wei | JAPC 27:1 (2017) pp. 158–160
  • 11 May 2017

  • Migrant youth identity work in transnational new mediascape: A case study of what it means to be Korean for migrant adolescents
    Sujin Kim | JAPC 27:1 (2017)
  • Gentle Masculinity in East Asia: ‘Herbivore Men’ and Interlocutor Constructed Language
    Judit Kroo | JAPC 27:1 (2017)
  • Shi-xu. 2014. Chinese Discourse Studies
    Reviewed by Yanhua Cheng | JAPC 27:1 (2017) pp. 161–164
  • Hui-Ching ChangRichard Holt. 2014. Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan
    Reviewed by Jennifer M. Wei | JAPC 27:1 (2017) pp. 158–160
  • List of reviewers
    JAPC 27:1 (2017)
  • 30 August 2016

  • List of reviewers
    JAPC 26:2 (2016) p. 356
  • Identity and interculturality through English as a lingua franca
    Will Baker | JAPC 26:2 (2016) pp. 340–347
  • Constructing the global citizen: An ELF perspective
    Peter I. De Costa | JAPC 26:2 (2016) pp. 238–259
  • Global and national identity construction in ELF: A longitudinal case study on four Chinese students
    Yihong Gao, Xiaoqi MaXiaoying Wang | JAPC 26:2 (2016) pp. 260–279
  • Deficient non-native speakers or translanguagers? Identity struggles in a multilingual multimodal ELF online intercultural exchange
    I-Chung Ke | JAPC 26:2 (2016) pp. 280–300
  • English and identity: A reflection and implications for future research
    Le Ha Phan | JAPC 26:2 (2016) pp. 348–355
  • “Oh no, it’s just culture”: Multicultural identities in action in ELF interactions
    Aki Siegel | JAPC 26:2 (2016) pp. 193–215
  • Language and identity in virtual space: Reconceptualisation of ELF
    Shaila Sultana | JAPC 26:2 (2016) pp. 216–237
  • English as a lingua franca in the Asian context: Perspectives on identity in a multilingual world
    Chit Cheung Matthew Sung | JAPC 26:2 (2016) pp. 175–192
  • Experiences and identities in ELF communication: Insights from Hong Kong students’ written narratives
    Chit Cheung Matthew Sung | JAPC 26:2 (2016) pp. 301–320
  • Exploring identity construction of student teachers practicing ELF pedagogy in a microteaching course
    Nugrahenny T. Zacharias | JAPC 26:2 (2016) pp. 321–339
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  • Urbanization, education, and language behavior: The case of Jilin University students
    Xiaoguang Li, Zhan JuMarinus van den Berg | JAPC 26:1 (2016) p. 81
  • The Dōngběi varieties of Mandarin: A brief look at their history and classification
    Richard VanNess Simmons | JAPC 26:1 (2016) pp. 56–80
  • Attitude, maintenance, and use of Beijing dialect and Putonghua among younger generation Beijing-born residents
    Jing SongYingmei Zhu | JAPC 26:1 (2016) pp. 32–55
  • Speech community theory and the language / dialect debate
    Daming Xu | JAPC 26:1 (2016) p. 8
  • Language choice and language attitude among different social segments in Shenzhen
    Tang Zhixiang | JAPC 26:1 (2016) pp. 143–160
  • Introduction
    Marinus van den Berg | JAPC 26:1 (2016) pp. 1–7
  • Modernization and the restructuring of the Shanghai speech community
    Marinus van den Berg | JAPC 26:1 (2016) pp. 112–142
  • Zhang Jingwei. A Sociophonetic Study on Tonal Variation of the Wúxī and Shànghăi Dialects
    Reviewed by Philip Rose | JAPC 26:1 (2016) pp. 161–173
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