Institutional Politeness in (South) East Asia

Special Issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 21:1 (2011)

Editors

Francesca Bargiela | University of Warwick, UK

Dániel Z. Kádár | Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 21:1] 2011. vi, 158 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 16 March 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.21.1

Table of Contents

Articles
Institutional politeness in (South) East Asia: An introduction Dániel Z. Kádár and Francesca Bargiela	1–9
Cantonese politeness in the interviewing setting Yuling Pan	10–33
Positioning and multidimensional (im)politeness in Korean Oriental medical discourse Ki-tae Kim	34–59
Politeness in a Japanese intra-organisational meeting: Honorifics and socio-dialectal code switching Hiromasa Tanaka	60–76
Rapport management in air traffic control in Malaysian aviation discourse Shamala Paramasivam	77–96
Epilogue Yuling Pan	97–102
Book Reviews
Review of Bousfield (2008): Impoliteness in Interaction Reviewed by Sandra J. Harris	103–107
Review of Sun & Kádár (2008): It’s the Dragon’ Turn: Chinese Institutional Discourses Reviewed by Andrew John Merrison	108–113
Regular papers
Japanese sojourners’ attitudes toward Americans: Exploring the influences of communication accommodation, linguistic competence, and relational solidarity in intergroup contact Makiko Imamura, Yan Bing Zhang and Jake Harwood	115–132
Stereotypes in the making: Prejudice and cultural generalizations in Hong Kong students’ discourse Hans J. Ladegaard	133–158

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Subjects and metadata

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Afro-Asiatic languages

Altaic languages