Su-Hie Ting
List of John Benjamins publications in which Su-Hie Ting is involved.
2026 Language choice and ideology: Representations of the LGBT community in Malaysia’s multilingual newspapers Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 36:1, pp. 53–83 | Article
This study examines how English-, Malay-, and Chinese-language newspapers in Malaysia represent the local LGBT community. Drawing on the Discourse-Historical Approach, 167 online news articles published in 2023 by The Star Online (English), Harian Metro (Malay), and China Press (Chinese) were… read more
2023 “I am who I am”: Mitigating LGBTQ identities in heteronormative society Asian Perspectives on Queer Discourse, Zhang, Ke and Chao Lu (eds.), pp. 204–226 | Article
The study examined how LGBTQ individuals negotiate their identities in the Malaysian heteronormative society using the Discourse-Historical Approach. In-depth interviews were carried out with 13 LGBTQ individuals to find out the discursive strategies they used in describing the triggers for… read more
2016 Generic analysis of bakery service encounters in Malaysia International Journal of Language and Culture 3:2, pp. 280–311 | Article
The study aimed to describe the staging of service encounters in a bakery in Sarawak, Malaysia. The specific aspects studied were categories of transactions, staging of transactions, and nonverbal enactment of stages of transactions. A total of 100 interactions between Chinese vendors and… read more
2015 Sociocultural traits and language attitudes of Chinese Foochow and Hokkien in Malaysia Explored but not Assumed: Revisiting Commonalities in Asian Pacific Communication, Chang, Hui-Ching and Ling Chen (eds.), pp. 117–140 | Article
This study examined the effect of age, gender and socio-economic status on attitudes of Malaysians of Chinese descent towards their Chinese dialect and Mandarin, the standard Chinese language. A survey of 300 Chinese (150 Foochow and 150 Hokkien) living in Kuching, Sarawak was conducted. Their… read more
2009 Towards homogeneity in homes languages: Malay, Chinese Foochow and Indian Tamil families in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia Clearing the Air: Applied linguistic perspectives on aviation communication, Read, John and Ute Knoch (eds.), pp. 11.1–11.22 | Article
This preliminary study examines the languages used by parents with their children in Malay, Chinese Foochow and Indian Tamil families to find out how the similarity or dissimilarity in parents’ ethnic language influenced the choice of language transmitted to children and how far standard languages… read more
2009 Gender and Communication Strategy Use in Learning English as a Second Language ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 157, pp. 93–108 | Article
The study examined the use of communication strategies in same- and cross-gender interactions by learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). Analysis of oral data from 10 female same- and 10 cross-gender interactions using an integrated psycholinguistic, social interaction and discourse-based… read more