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2007, Vol. 16, No.1

Stacy Smulowitz

When Does Culture Matter, and To Whom?

Yi-Fan Chen

Public Mobile Communication Technology Use: A Comparison between America and Taiwan

Kandi Walker, Lee Ridner, & Eleen Hahn

Exploratory Study of Young Adults’ Perceptions of Tobacco Use and Tobacco Marketing

Michele Khoo & Kavita Karan

Macho or Metrosexual: The Branding of Masculinity in FHM Magazine in Singapore

Lata Kumar

Role of Marketing Communication in Enhancement of Quality of Life in Rural India

Ana Clotilde Thome Williams & N. St. Clair

MERCOSUR: The Regional State of South America

Liu Changyuan & Wang Song

Chinese Cultural Transformation in the Context of Globalization

Feng-Yung Hu & Fei Wu

The Relationship between Russian President Putin’s Media Reforms and His Ideological Tendency

Yi Wang

Globalization Enhances Cultural Identity

Miyuki Hashimoto

Visual Kei Otaku Identity—An Intercultural Analysis

Yihong Gao

Legitimacy of Foreign Language Learning and Identity Research: Structuralist and Constructivist Perspectives

Satoshi Moriizumi & Jiro Takai

Contextual Differences in Interpersonal Conflict Management Styles in Japan

Yuqin Zhao

Cultural Conflicts in an Intercultural Classroom Discourse and Interpretations from a Cultural Perspective

Yasuhiro Fujiwara

A Web-based Survey on British Pragmatics Acceptability of Japanese Refusals in English: From Cross-cultural to Intercultural

Rui Yu, Li Fu, & Xiao-Yu Hou

Contrastive Analysis of Compliment between English and Chinese

Lin Yupeng

Cultural Metamorphosis in Translation: Domestication in One Chinese Version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Fei Xi & Han Guang

Cultural Impacts on Indirectness in English Writings of Chinese ESL/EFL Learners

Shinobu Suzuku

Structural Features of Informal Arguments in Spoken Japanese: A Comparison between Advanced and Superior Learners

Yingqin Liu

Cultural Factors and Rhetorical Patterns in Classical Chinese Argumentation

Chang Pu

Discourse Analysis of President Bush’s Speech at Tsinghua University, China

Po-Lin Pan

The Construction of Taiwanese as Chinese: A Public Relations Approach to Explore Chinese Leader’s Discourse

Xingsong Shi

Intercultural Language Socialization: Theory and Methodology

Akbar Afghari

A Contrastive Study of Four Cultural Differences in Everyday Conversation between English and Persian

Jennife Salisbury & Guo-Ming Chen

An Examination of the Relationship between Conversational Sensitivity and Listening Styles