Google Scholar Citations

Books

1. McGlone, M. S. & Jia, M. (under contract). Where the action is: Linguistic agency assignment in health communication. Cambridge University Press.
2. Xiang, M., Jia, M., & Bu, X. (2024). Introduction to pragmatics. Springer. Link PDF

Journal Articles

1. Su, R., Stephens, K. K., McGlone, M. S., & Jia, M. (aop). One HPV vaccination message does not fit all: Differences between young adults deciding to be vaccinated and parents deciding for their children. Health Communication. Online First Publication. Link PDF (This research is featured in Pharmacy Times)
2. Yang, G. & Jia, M. (2025). Diachronic research on Chinese discourse markers in China: Looking back and moving forward. Sage Open, 15(1), 1–16. link PDF
3. Yao, S. & Jia, M. (2025). You-don’t-wanna-mess: A case of nonverbal behavior in Chinese freestyle rap battles. Western Journal of Communication, 89(1), 1–25. Link PDF
4. Yang, G., Jia, M., & Lu, H. (2024). On the pragmaticalization of discourse marker wanle. Modern Chinese, 21(9), 66–73. Link PDF
5. McGlone, M. S., Stephens, K. K., Jia, M., Montagnolo, C., & Xu, Y. (2024). Multiple messaging strategies for increasing HPV vaccination intentions among English- and Spanish-speaking parents in the United States and Mexico. Vaccines, 12, 650. Link PDF
6. Jia, M. & An, Y. (2023). Language as an interpersonal marker in English dissertation acknowledgments: Variations across genres and academic disciplines. English Today. 39(4), 315–322. Link PDF
7. Jia, M. & Zhao, Y. (2023). Fear appeals in public signs of COVID-19 prevention in Chinese local communities. Pragmatics and Society, 14(2), 281–305. Link PDF
8. Alley, E. & Jia, M. (2023). Pursue the Boo: The relationship between ghosting and unwanted persistent pursuit. Communication Research Reports, 40(4), 206–215. Link PDF
9. Zhang, T. Z., Jia, M., & McGlone, M. S. (2023). Combating antibiotic resistance via linguistic agency assignment. Health Communication, 38(14), 3287–3300. Link PDF
10. Jia, M. (2022). Toward an integrated understanding of language and health communication: Discourse-analytic and message design approaches. Applied Linguistics, 43(6), 1217–1221. Link PDF
11. Jia, M. (2022). Co-operative actions in Chinese freestyle rap battles: A case of Iron Mic. Multimodal Communication, 11(2), 169–182. Link PDF
12. Jia, M. & Yao, S. (2022). ‘Yo I am Superman, You Kiddo Go Home’: Ritual impoliteness in Chinese freestyle rap battles. Text & Talk, 42(5), 691–711. Link PDF
13. Jia, M. & Xiang, M. (2022). Research fronts and foci of (im)politeness studies in the 21st Century. Foreign Languages in China, 19(3), 53–63. Link PDF
14. Jia, M. & Yang, G. (2021). Emancipating Chinese (im)politeness research: Looking back and looking forward. Lingua, 251, 103028. Link PDF
15. Cao, D., Xiang, M., & Jia, M. (2021). The disputation between Contextualism and Semantic Minimalism: A bibliometric mapping-knowledge-domain analysis. Foreign Language Learning: Theory and Practice, 176, 8–23. Link PDF
16. Xiang, M. & Jia, M. (2020). A critique of Leechian pragmalinguistic politeness. Foreign Language Education, 41(4), 1–6. Link PDF

Chapters in Edited Volumes

1. Jia, M. (2024). Cross-modal management of trolling during live streaming on Periscope: A micro-analysis. In S. Tanskanen, L. Lehti, K. V. Lexander, M. T. Virtanen, & C. Xie (Eds.), Explorations in Internet Pragmatics: Intentionality, identity, and interpersonal interaction (pp. 225–245). Brill. Link PDF

Commentaries and Reviews

1. Jia, M. (2024). Language and cultural norms influence vaccine hesitancy. Nature. 627, 489–489. Link PDF.
2. Jia, M. (2023). From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: Multilingual and multicultural perspectives. Journal of Politeness Research, 19(1), 291–295. Link PDF.
3. Jia, M. (2022). Why language? What pragmatics tells us about language and communication. Journal of Pragmatics, 188, 80–82. Link PDF
4. Jia, M. & An, Y. (2021). Complimenting behavior and (self-)praise across social media. International Journal of Communication, 15, 2112–2115. Link PDF