Asian Business Discourse(s) Part II

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:1 (2006)

Editor

Francesca Bargiela | Nottingham Trent University

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 16:1] 2006. 164 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 11 May 2006

https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.16.1

Table of Contents

Articles
(Whose) English(es) for Asian Business Discourse(s)? Francesca Bargiela	1–23
Emerging English-speaking business discourses in Japan Hiromasa Tanaka	25–50
An interactional model of English in Malaysia: A contextualised response to commodification Shanta Nair-Venugopal	51–75
Accounts as a politeness strategy in the internal directive documents of a business firm in Hong Kong Kenneth C.C. Kong	77–101
Persuasive and politeness strategies in cross-cultural letters of request in the Thai business context Ora-Ong Chakorn	103–146
Book Reviews
Review of Mair (2003): The Politics of English as World Language, New Horizons in Postcolonial Cultural Studies Reviewed by Catherine C. Nickerson	147–150
Review of Tonkin & Reagan (2003): Language in the twenty-first century Reviewed by Sandra J. Harris	150–154
Review of Cheng (2003): Intercultural conversation Reviewed by Yunxia Zhu	154–158

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Communication Studies

Asian Business Discourse(s) Part II

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 16:1 (2006)

Cited by one other publication

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