Sunny Lie

Sunny Lie

Assistant Professor , Communication , College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences

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909.869.3516

Office location

Building 1-323

Office hours

M W F | 4PM-6PM

Sunny's Bio

Sunny Lie (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst) is Assistant Professor of Communication. She teaches in the Interpersonal and Organizational Communication option. Professor Lie’s research interests include: culture and communication, and the relationship between religious communication and ethnic identity.

She received her B.A. (Communication and East Asian Languages and Cultures) from the University of Southern California. She received her M.A. (Global Communications) from the University of Southern California and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sample Publications

  • Ho, Evelyn, Lie, Sunny, Luk, Pauline L., Dutta, Mohan J. (2018). Speaking of health in Singapore using the Singlish term heaty. In T. Milburn, M. Scollo (eds.), Engaging and Transforming Global Communication through Cultural Discourse Analysis: A Tribute to Donal Carbaugh. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD.
  • Lie, Sunny (2017). How Best to Evangelize to Nonbelievers: Cultural Persuasion in American and Chinese Indonesian Evangelical Christian discourse on relational evangelism. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 11(1), 42-57. DOI: 10.1080/17513057.2017.1349920.
  • Lie, Sunny. Bailey, Benjamin. (2017). The power of names in a Chinese Indonesian family’s negotiations of politics, culture, and identities. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 10 (1), 80-95.
  • Lie, Sunny. (2016). Effective Evangelism: Discourse surrounding best evangelical practices in a Chinese Indonesian Reformed Evangelical (CIREC) community in Boston, MA. In D. Carbaugh (ed.), The Handbook of Communication in Cross-Cultural Perspective (International Communication Association Series). Taylor and Francis: London, United Kingdom.
  • Lie, Sunny. (2016). Chinese Discourse Studies, by Xu Shi [Review of the book Chinese Discourse Studies, by Xu Shi]. Chinese Journal of Communication, 9 (2), 206-211.
  • Molina-Markham, Elizabeth, van Over Brion, Lie, Sunny, & Carbaugh, Donal (2016). “You can do it baby”: Non-task talk with an in-car speech enabled system. Communication Quarterly 64, (3), 324-347.
  • Lie, Sunny. (2015). Messengers of the good news: Discourse of Chinese Indonesian Evangelical Christian (CIEC) identity. China Media Research, 11(1), 87–98.
  • Carbaugh, Donal, Winter, Ute, Molina-Markham, Elizabeth, van Over Brion, Lie, Sunny, & Grost, Timothy (2015). A model for investigating cultural dimensions of communication in the car. Theoretical issues in Ergonomic Science, (1), 1-20.
  • Molina-Markham, Elizabeth, van Over, Brion, Lie, Sunny & Carbaugh, Donal (2015). “OK, Talk to You Later”: Practices of ending and switching tasks in interactions with an in-car voice enabled interface. In T. Milburn (ed.), Communicating User Experience: Applying Local Strategies Research to Digital Media Design. Lexington Books: Lanham, Maryland.
  • Bailey, Benjamin, Sunny Lie. (2013). The Politics of Names among Chinese Indonesians in Java. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 23 (1), 21-40.