{"title":"Review of Konstantinovskaia (2020): The Language of Feminine Beauty in Russian and Japanese Societies","authors":"Hannah E. Dahlberg-Dodd","doi":"10.1075/japc.00090.dah","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00090.dah","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48583119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Language, Islam, and Muslim societies","authors":"Sumanto Al Qurtuby","doi":"10.1075/japc.00080.qur","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00080.qur","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45758310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Singapore hawker centres","authors":"C. Lee","doi":"10.1075/japc.00078.lee","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00078.lee","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper is a sociolinguistic study of the linguistic landscape of signboards in Singapore hawker centres. It\u0000 examines the language(s) displayed on the signboards of 2,145 stalls in the 20 largest hawker centres in Singapore. Hawker centres\u0000 in Singapore are open-air eating places patronised by thousands of people each day. With less government intervention in the\u0000 languages that can be displayed on hawker centre signboards, the signs reflect the languages used and identities adopted by the\u0000 masses in a multilingual setting. This language ecology enables us to observe how languages interact at individual and societal\u0000 levels in hawker centres and how linguistic diversity is maintained despite the apparent widespread use of English in Singapore.\u0000 We examine how besides the monolingual, bilingual and multilingual and hybrid signboards, hawker centres are unique habitats in\u0000 this language ecology where non-Mandarin dialects are preserved, and traditional Chinese characters are commonly seen, in a\u0000 globalised Singapore. The hawker centres showcase a linguistic landscape of identity, diversity, and continuity.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45596258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Breaking the mold","authors":"Katharina Barkley, E. Okamoto","doi":"10.1075/japc.00076.bar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00076.bar","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study investigated the potential effects of CEO gender and ethnicity on crisis communication efforts in Japan. Literature on how Japanese perceive male/female and Japanese/non-Japanese leaders was examined, followed by a discussion of three major mechanisms through which gender and ethnicity can influence audience perceptions: (1) ingroup bias, (2) role congruity considerations, and (3) shifting standards and expectations. A 2 (crisis response) × 2 (CEO gender) × 2 (CEO ethnicity) between-subjects experimental design was employed to assess the impact of CEO gender and ethnicity on audience perceptions of the CEO and the organization in crisis. Results showed no negative effects of deviating from the stereotypical image of a male Japanese CEO. Rather, both being female and non-Japanese positively influenced perceptions of the CEO. However, only the effect of CEO ethnicity was reflected in judgements of organizational reputation.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49606988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly, Minna Mars Logemann, Kevin L. Bryant
{"title":"Foreign-born instructor humor perception and effects on self-perceived affective and cognitive learning","authors":"Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly, Minna Mars Logemann, Kevin L. Bryant","doi":"10.1075/japc.00075.cha","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00075.cha","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this cross-sectional study, a total of 394 U.S. American and Thai college students took an online survey\u0000 investigating how they perceived humor used by their foreign-born instructors and how those perceptions then predicted their\u0000 self-perceived cognitive and affective learning. Moderated mediation analyses revealed both student groups understood affiliative\u0000 humor and considered it appropriate and humorous which then enhanced their learning. Aggressive humor positively predicted Thai\u0000 students’ learning through the mediating role of humorousness and negatively predicted U.S. students’ learning through the\u0000 mediating role of appropriateness. Self-defeating humor enhanced U.S. students’ learning through the moderating role of\u0000 appropriateness. This study clarified the influence of different humor styles on learning and extended the instructional humor\u0000 processing theory by demonstrating the moderating effect of culture. With the internationalization of higher education and\u0000 increasing number of foreign-born instructors, this pioneering study provided preliminary suggestions for effectively using humor\u0000 in cross-cultural classrooms.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42137992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Jeung, Umemoto, Dong, Mar, Tsuchitani & Pan (2019): Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies","authors":"Kristina S. Vassil","doi":"10.1075/japc.00073.vas","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00073.vas","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46323531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Homonational tongue?","authors":"K. Itakura","doi":"10.1075/japc.00071.ita","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00071.ita","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This ethnographic writing animates the communal role of language through\u0000 onē-kotoba (queen’s language) among Ni-chōme volleyballers (amateur volleyball-loving gay\u0000 men in Tokyo). This gayly effeminate speech style remains firmly entrenched in Japanese media-representations of gay male\u0000 characters despite its alleged rejection by actual gay men as well as its problematic characterization as being disrespectful to\u0000 women. By adopting an ethnographic approach anchored in performance studies, I address\u0000 onē-kotoba not in media but one real, perhaps unexpected, context of use. As Ni-chōme\u0000 volleyballers swing between discretion and disclosure by fashioning language(/gender), such tactical performance of\u0000 onē-kotoba lubricates an aesthetically pro-silence erotic play in tension with Japan’s –\u0000 retrospectively and arguably – family-oriented, if not homophobic, sociocultural orientation resistant to “out-and-proud”\u0000 activism. Overall, this ethnographic research highlights the enduring difficulty of radical coalition among diverse populations,\u0000 as I spotlight Ni-chōme volleyballers by discussing what has been in Japan in relation to the Euro-American resistance-minded\u0000 queer theory.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47688038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparing Teachers for Addressing the Sociocultural Issues with Asian Pacific Immigrants and Refugees","authors":"","doi":"10.1075/japc.31.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.31.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45155322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nasser Salimi Aghbolagh, A. Hashim, Cecilia Cheong Yin Mei
{"title":"A genre-based investigation of the “About Us” section of private hospitals’ Websites","authors":"Nasser Salimi Aghbolagh, A. Hashim, Cecilia Cheong Yin Mei","doi":"10.1075/japc.00069.mei","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00069.mei","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Medical tourism industry is currently viewed as one of the lucrative sources of income for some countries and in essence, owes much of its reputation and success to private hospitals and the Internet (Connell, 2006). However, how these private hospitals discursively present themselves to prospective health tourists in order to entice them to use their medical services rather than their rivals’ still remains under-researched. Following the ESP genre school, this study seeks to explore the “About Us” sections of private hospitals’ websites and aims to see how such sections are rhetorically designed and constructed. Using Bhatia’s (1993, 2004) move structures for promotional texts, this study examines the rhetorical structure of the constituent webpages of the “About Us” sections of forty-one Malaysian private hospitals’ websites. Our study demonstrates how Malaysian private hospitals utilize a number of cognitive structures to present and promote themselves in their “About Us” sections. Our findings are, in general, beneficial for the private hospitals in Malaysia or elsewhere in the world, and in particular, are helpful for novice medical website designers.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45754775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dynamics of contacts and multilingual practices in the Chinese community in Britain","authors":"Wei Li","doi":"10.1075/japc.00068.li","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00068.li","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article revisits the application of Social Network Analysis to the study of language maintenance and language shift in the Chinese community in Britain. An approach that focuses more on individual variations, including variable behaviours by the same speaker in different contexts, is proposed. The approach is illustrated with new data from Chinese-speaking families in London. The role of the social media in language maintenance and language shift, and in promoting multilingual practices is explored.","PeriodicalId":43807,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian Pacific Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46693891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}