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Revisiting Commonalities in Asian Pacific Communication

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:1 (2015)

Editors

Hui-Ching Chang | University of Illinois at Chicago

Ling Chen | Hong Kong Baptist University

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 25:1] 2015. v, 164 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.25.1

Table of Contents

Special issue articles
Commonalities as an alternative approach to analyzing Asian Pacific communication: Some notes about the Special Issue Hui-Ching Chang and Ling Chen	1–21
Embracing cultural similarities and bridging differences in supportive communication Hairong Feng	22–41
Beyond the cultural dichotomy, what do we share? An ethnographic study of intergenerational smartphone MMS use in sojourning experiences Hong-Chi Shiau	42–62
Dialectics of culture and dynamic balancing between individuality and collectivity Tae-Seop Lim and Seokhoon Ahn	63–77
“Let the ‘like’ one in” Five portals to invite similarity into conversations about “differences” in Asian Pacific communication Richard Holt	78–96
Proverb commonalities in different languages and its application to Asian Pacific communication Vladimir Manakin	97–116
Articles
Sociocultural traits and language attitudes of Chinese Foochow and Hokkien in Malaysia Su-Hie Ting and Yann-yann Puah	117–140
Power redistribution of languages in Hong Kong under a new national flag Mee Ling Lai	141–164

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