Anxiety, Insecurity, and Border Crossing

Language Contact in a Globalizing World

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:2 (2014)

Editors

Mie Hiramoto | National University of Singapore

Joseph Sung-Yul Park | National University of Singapore

[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 24:2] 2014. vi, 184 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 22 December 2014

https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.24.2

Table of Contents

Introduction
Anxiety, insecurity, and border crossing: Language contact in a globalizing world Mie Hiramoto and Joseph Sung-Yul Park	141–151
Anxiety, insecurity and complexity of transnational educational migration among Korean middle class families Bae Sohee	152–172
“Island girl from the island” Tattooed symbols and personal identities in contemporary Hawai‘i Mie Hiramoto	173–195
‘Stupidest of all the primates’: The role of English in Japanese television Gavin Furukawa	196–220
Linguistic insecurity and reproduction of the Malay community’s peripherality in Singapore Yurni Said-Sirhan	221–240
“You say ouch and I say aya” Linguistic insecurity in a narrative of transnational work Joseph Sung-Yul Park	241–260
Hypersubjectivity: Language, anxiety, and indexical dissonance in globalization Kira Hall	261–273
Regular papers
An ethnographic multiple-case study of mother–child interaction strategies in Singapore-based Chinese families Li Ren and Guangwei Hu	274–300
Linguistic and cultural learning processes of four Chinese exchange students at a women’s university in Japan Hirofumi Asada	301–320
Book review
Review of Beckett & Postiglione (2012): China’s Assimilationist Language Policy: The Impact on Indigenous/Minority Literacy and Social Harmony Reviewed by Shouhui Zhao	321–325
List of reviewers
List of reviewers	326

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Communication Studies

Anxiety, Insecurity, and Border Crossing

Language Contact in a Globalizing World

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24:2 (2014)

Cited by two other publications

Communication Studies

Linguistics

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