Books

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

Journal Articles

1. Jia, M. (in press). Evaluations of Chinese compliment responses: Accounting for individual differences in attributed pragmatic reasons. Journal of Pragmatics.
2. Zhang, T. Z., Jia, M., & McGlone, M. S. (2026). Pills, rebel yells, and red dye spills: Preventing the misuse of antibiotics via language and color cues. Health Communication. Advance online publication. Link PDF
3. Jia, M. (2026). Using Call Annie to teach Schein’s onion model of organizational culture. Communication Teacher, 40(1), 36–41. Link PDF
4. Jia, M. (2025). Applying linguistic theories to design effective public health messages: Implications for HPV vaccination promotion among Chinese-English bilinguals in Hong Kong. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 21(1), 2518845. Link PDF
5. Su, R., Stephens, K. K., McGlone, M. S., & Jia, M. (2025). One HPV vaccination message does not fit all: Differences between young adults deciding to be vaccinated and parents deciding for their children. Health Communication, 40(9), 1645–1660. Link PDF (This research is featured in Pharmacy Times)
6. 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
7. 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
8. Yang, G., Jia, M., & Lu, H. (2024). On the pragmaticalization of discourse marker wanle. Modern Chinese, 21(9), 66–73. Link PDF
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. Zhang, T. Z., Jia, M., & McGlone, M. S. (2023). Combating antibiotic resistance via linguistic agency assignment. Health Communication, 38(14), 3287–3300. Link PDF
14. 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
15. Jia, M. (2022). Co-operative actions in Chinese freestyle rap battles: A case of Iron Mic. Multimodal Communication, 11(2), 169–182. Link PDF
16. 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
17. 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
18. Jia, M. & Yang, G. (2021). Emancipating Chinese (im)politeness research: Looking back and looking forward. Lingua, 251, 103028. Link PDF
19. 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
20. 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. (in press). Exploring metalinguistic patterns with large-scale corpora: A case of Chinese notions of face and politeness. In S. Arndt-Lappe, S. Stumpf, M. Belosevic, P. Maurer, C. Moulin, & A. Rettinger (Eds.), Patterns in language and communication: Between theoretical grounding and empirical methods. De Gruyter Mouton.
2. 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