Publications

Media

• Yoong, D. (November 11, 2018). The Power Of The Linguist: Arul Kanda Can Run But Cannot Hide. Astro Awani Review.

• Yoong, D. (March 10, 2016). 5 Signs you may be a blind Malaysian political zombie. Cilisos.

• ​Yoong, D. (July 25, 2013). Elderspeak. The Bigger Picture. BFM.

• Yoong, D. (September 12, 2009). Singlish. Lingua Franca. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

• Lim, S.A. (November 5, 2018). Agape Vision creates safe haven for abused and marginalised youth. Options, The Edge.

• Lim, S.A. (April 10, 2020). Be Kind to Your Mind. Co-Labs Coworking.

• Lim, S.A. (2020). Narrator in 'I am Intan' and 'I am Ethan' by Sybella Ng - a children book series on personality. Mebooks.asia.

• Lim, S.A. (May 10, 2020). Going Bald to Feed the Hunger. SJ Echo.

• Lim, S.A. (Ongoing since April 2020). Mindful Choices Series based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). MyPsychology Facebook Page.

Academic Publications

Books

• Yoong, D. (2019). Interactional orderliness and disorderliness in the Malaysian House of Representatives. Kuala Lumpur: UM Press.

• Yoong, D. (2019). 3 years for a PhD? Here’s how to do it right. Kuala Lumpur. Available on Amazon.com (self published)

Journals

• Yoong, D. (forthcoming). How did 1MDB’s CEO manage impressions of culpability in an accountability interview? Text & Talk.

• Wong, Y.W. & Yoong, D. (2019). ESL teachers' practices and perceptions of code-switching in a Malaysian Chinese independent secondary school. Journal of Modern Languages.

• Yoong, D. & Saffari, N. (2019). Reframing Students’ Negative Conceptions of Failure: An Action Research. Journal of Nusantara Studies.

• Yoong, D., Rajandran, K., & Devi, R. (2017). The expulsion of Singapore in a Malaysian history textbook: An examination of argument structures. Kajian Malaysia, 35(2), 67-85.

• Yoong, D., Zuraidah M.D. & Foroutan, M. (2016). Prescribing roles in the employability of Malaysian graduates. Journal of Education and Work, 30(4): 432-444. DOI:10.1080/13639080.2016. 1191626.

• Nimehchisalem, V., Yoong, D., Kaur, S., Zainuddin, S.Z., Norouzi, S., & Khalid, S. (2014). A self-assessment checklist for undergraduate students’ argumentative writing. Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 5(1), 65-80.

• Yoong, D., Tan, H.K., & Ng, C.M. (2013). “This is not gambling, but gaming”: Methods of promoting a lottery gaming company in a Malaysian daily. Discourse and Society, 24(2), 229-247.

• Tan, H.K., & Yoong, D. (2013). Preying on Lonely Hearts: A Systematic Deconstruction of an Internet Romance Scammers Online Lover Persona. Journal of Modern Languages, 23, 28-40.

• Yoong, D. (2012). The case of humour in the Malaysian House of Representatives. Humor, 25(3). 263-283.

• Yoong, D. (2011). Initiating, Pausing, Resuming and Ending Police Questioning: Due Process as Interactional Norms in an Australian Police Interrogation Room. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 5(3), 248-264.

• David, M. K. & Yoong Soon Chye, D. (2011). Islamic activism: Anti-apostasy propaganda in the Lina Joy case. The Indian Journal of Social Work, 72(2), 199-222.

• Yoong, D. (2011). Orderly and disorderly practices of personal pronouns during Question Time in the Malaysian House of Representatives. Journal of Modern Languages, 21, 33-47.

• Yoong, D. (2010). Interrogating norms in the Australian police interrogation room. Discourse and Society, 21(6), 692–713.

• David, M.K., Jan, J.M., Kow, Y.C. & Yoong, D. (2006). Function and role of laughter in Malaysian women’s and men’s talk. Multilingua, 25, 77-99.

• Yoong, D. & David, M.K. (2006). Talking to older Malaysians: A case study. Multilingua, 25, 165-182.

Book Chapters

• Yoong, D., Kemp, R., & Ng, K.H. (forthcoming) in Ng K.H. & M. Stoeva (eds.). Medical Physics during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Clinical Practice, Teaching and Research. New York: Taylors and Francis.

• Nayan, D. & Yoong, D. (forthcoming). How are Muslims represented in Fox News? An analysis of the Charlie Hebdo incident. In T. Yamaguchi (ed.). Voices in multicontextual discourses. Kuala Lumpur: UM Press.

• Yoong, D. & Ayeshah S. (2020). Contested and Uncontested Identities in Police-Detainee Interaction in the Police Interviewing Room. In M. Mason & F. Rock (eds.). The Discourse of Police Investigation (Chapter 8). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

• David, M.K. & Yoong, D. (2009). Code switching in eldercare. In M. K. David, J. McLellan and A. N. Abdullah (eds.). Code switching in Malaysia (pp. 135-168). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

• David, M.K. & Yoong, D. (2009). Applying Knowledge of Psycholinguistics in Language Teaching and Learning. In M. Vyas (ed). Teaching English as a second language: A new pedagogy for a new century (pp. 221-235). New Delhi: Prentice Hall India.

• David, M.K. & Yoong, D. (2009). Code switching: Talking down to older people? In E. Lavric, F. Fischer, C. Konzett, J. Kuhn and H. Wochele (eds.). People, products, and professions: Choosing a name, choosing a language (pp. 33-46). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

• Yoong, D. (2008). Politeness and rapport building between an uncle and his niece. In M.K. David & K. Kow (eds.). Politeness in Malaysian family talk (pp. 148-168). Serdang: University Putra Press.

• David, M.K. & Yoong, D. (2007). Elderspeak: Deprivation of linguistic human rights?. In M.K. David (ed.) Language and human rights. Serdang: Universiti Putra Press.

• Yoong, D. (2006). Boycotting an international tourism company: A critical discourse perspectives. In M.K. David, H. Burhanudeen & A. N. Abdullah (eds.). The power of language and the media (pp. 146-161). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Theses

• Yoong, D. (2012). Experiencing police harassment: Perspectives of Injecting Drug Users in Kuala Lumpur. University of Malaya.

• Yoong, D. (2010). Orderliness and disorderliness of interaction during Question Time in the Malaysian House of Representatives. La Trobe University.

• Yoong, D. (2006). Accommodating to the Elderly in a Malaysian Geriatric Day Care Centre. Master of Linguistics Research Dissertation. University of Malaya.