Jiin-Yih Yeo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jiin-Yih Yeo is involved.
Articles
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