Multidisciplinary Approaches to Language and Health Communication

When:
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Where:

The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Academic Complex | The University of Chicago Francis and Rose Yuen Campus in Hong Kong
168 Victoria Road, Mount Davis
Hong Kong

Description:

This one-day symposium brings together health communication researchers from multiple disciplinary backgrounds, such as linguistics, communication studies, psychology, and public health. It will feature researchers who adopt experimental, discourse-analytic, multimodal, and computational approaches to language and health communication. The symposium aims to foster collaboration between researchers and practitioners to address the contextual and cultural sensitivities in health communication research and practice. 
 

Speakers:


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Symposium Schedule

Time Program 
10:00-10:20 Welcome speech 
10:20-11:20

Multimodal corpus-based studies of language development: A plea for lifespan linguistics

Lihe Huang, Tongji University
11:20-12:20

Prescriptive pathways in language and health communication. a data analytics and machine learning perspective

Dennis Tay, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
12:20-14:00 Break
14:00-14:30

Closing the bad news: The affective reading of "alright" in online health advice-giving

Blair Ying Jin, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
14:30-15:00

Application of chatbots to deliver theory-based health promotion

Johnson Zixin Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:00

Using strategic agency framing to reduce alcohol consumption

  • James Mian Jia, City University of Hong Kong
  • Janet Geipel, University of Exeter
  • Boaz Keysar, The University of Chicago
16:00-16:30

How cultural tightness relates to risk perception

Janet Geipel, University of Exeter
16:30-17:00 Overall discussions and concluding remarks