FHM Researchers - Dr YIP Wai Chi Jesse
FHM Researchers - Dr YIP Wai Chi Jesse
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies (LML)
Research Area(s):
Discourse Analysis (Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Discourse Analysis)
Health Communication
Identity Studies
Pragmatics and Psychological Theory
Language Development and Social Communication
I am a discourse analyst, thinker and writer, having published in journals, such as Health Communication, Journal of Pragmatics, and Applied Linguistics Review. I warmly welcome research students who are interested in healthcare discourse studies, multimodal discourse analysis and media studies, and pragmatics and psychological theory.
Grants/ Awards:
- Early Career Scheme (ECS), Research Grant Council, HKD$620,050, Comparing the portrayals and medicalisation of autism in Hong Kong newspapers with the perceptions of individuals with autism: A discourse analytic study (01/01/2025-31/12/2026)
- Faculty Teaching Development Grant (TDG), EdUHK, HKD$360,700, Digitalizing and gamifying corpus linguistics for virtual teaching and learning (15/04/2024-14/06/2025)
- Postgraduate Students Conference/Seminar Grants, Research Grant Council, HKD $42,200, Exploring professional/health communication through discourse analysis: Research topics and methods (01/08/2019- 01/03/2020)
Selected Publications:
- Yip J. W. C. 2024. Discourse of online social support: A study of online self-help groups for anxiety and depression. Springer.
- Yip J. W. C. 2024. A discourse study on handover communication among care providers in a residential care home for persons with intellectual disabilities. Health Communication 39(2), 216-228.
- Yip J. W. C. 2020. Directness of advice giving in traditional Chinese medicine consultations. Journal of Pragmatics, 166, 28-38.
- Yip, J. W. C. 2020. Evaluating the communication of online social support: A mixed-methods analysis of structure and content. Health Communication, 35(10), 1210-1218.
- Yip J. W. C. 2018. Psychotherapeutic potential of online self-help groups: Innovative moments in thread openers’ narratives. Communication & Medicine, 15(3), 293-305.