Preface
Angela Williams, Howard Giles and Herbert Pierson: Asian Pacific Language and Communication: Foundations, Issues and Directions
Terence Lo and Colleen Wong: Polyglossia in the 'Printed Cantonese' Mass Media in Hong Kong
John A. Lent: The Development of Multicultural Stability in ASEAN: The Role of Mass Media
Don R. McCreary: Loan Words in Japanese
Harald Haarmann: Language as a Seismograph of Acculturation: Sociolinguistic Parameters of Language Contacts in the Asian Context
Philip Baker and Peter Miihlhausler: From Business to Pidgin
R. A. Brown: Korean Sociolinguistic Attitudes in Japanese Comparative Perspective
Steven Ross and Ian M. Shortreed: Japanese Foreigner Talk: Convergence or Divergence?
Kingsley Bolton and Helen Kwok: The Dynamics of the Hong Kong Accent: Social Identity and Sociolinguistic Description
Karen K. Dion, Kenneth L. Dion and Anita Wan-Ping Pak: The Role of Self-Reported Language Proficiencies in the Cultural and Psychosocial Adaptation Among Members of Toronto, Canada's Chinese Community
Young Yun Kim: Communication and Adaptation: The Case of Asian Pacific Refugees in the United States
Itesh Sachdev, Richard Y. Bourhis, John D'Eye and Sue-wen Phang: Cantonese-Chinese Vitality in London, England
J. J. Smolicz, L. Lee, M. Murugaian and M. J. Secombe: Language as a Core Value of Culture among Tertiary Students of Chinese and Indian Origin in Australia
Stanley Feldstein and Cynthia L. Crown: Oriental and Canadian Conversational Interactions: Chronographic Structure and Interpersonal Perception