Journal of Asian Pacific Communication

Volume 18, Issue 2 (2008)

2008. 156 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.18.2

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
Review of Tong, Shouren & Kerr (2006): Critical Zone 2: A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge Reviewed by Jeffrey Kinkley	281–284
Special thanks to our reviewers	285
Contents of Volume18	287–288

Subjects

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Afro-Asiatic languages

Altaic languages