Sunny Lie

Office: Building 1-319A
Phone: 909-869-3516
Email: slie@cpp.edu

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.

Professor Lie teaches:

Intercultural Communication
Gender and Communication
Diversity Communication

Sample Publications:

Lie, S. (2018). 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.

Lie, S., Bailey, B. (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.

Carbaugh, D., Winter, U., Molina-Markham, E., van Over, B., Lie, S., & Grost, T. (2015). A model for investigating cultural dimensions of communication in the car.Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, (1) 1-20.

Molina-Markham, E., van Over, B., Lie, S., & Carbaugh, D. (2016). “You can do it baby”: Non-task talk with an in-car speech enabled system. Communication Quarterly, 64 (3), 324-347.

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.

Lie, Sunny (2015). Messengers of the Good News: Cultural Discourse of Chinese Indonesian Evangelical Christian (CIEC) Identity. China Media Research, 11 (1), 87-98.

Bailey, Benjamin, Lie, Sunny. (2013). The Politics of Names among Chinese Indonesians in Java. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 23 (1), 21-40.