Culture, Contexts, and Communication in Multicultural Australia and New Zealand

An Introduction

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 17:1 (2007)

Editors

Yunxia Zhu | The University of Queensland, Australia

Herbert Hildebrandt | University of Michigan, USA

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 17:1] 2007. 176 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.17.1

Table of Contents

Articles
Culture, Contexts, and Communication in Multicultural Australia and New Zealand: An Introduction Yunxia Zhu and Herbert Hildebrandt	1–9
Promoting a Multilingual Future for Aotearoa/New Zealand: Initiatives for Change from 1989 to 2003 Martin East, Nick Shackleford and Gail Spence	11–28
Australia’s “Asia competence” and the Uneasy Balance between Asian Languages and English Gerhard Leitner	29–60
Same Context, Different Strategies: A Company Director’s Discourse in Business Meetings Angela Chan	61–81
Beyond Language: Workplace Communication and the L2 Worker David Cooke, T. Pascal Brown and Yunxia Zhu	83–103
Exploring the Image of New World Wine Producers: Website Texts for Wineries in Australia and New Zealand Gina Poncini	105–125
Acquiring Nonverbal Competence in English Language Contexts: The Case of Thai Learners of English Viewing American and Australian Films Anamai Damnet and Helen Borland	127–148
Language-Based Communication Zones and Professional Genre Competence in Business and Organizational Communication: A Cross-Cultural Case Approach Bertha Du-Babcock	149–171

Subjects

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Afro-Asiatic languages

Altaic languages

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General