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LIN Yi Elaine

Ph.D.

Tel 3943 5711
Office Fung King Hey 304

Title of Dissertation:
Discursive representation of sustainability in fashion: A (multimodal) CDA perspective

Supervisor:
Professor Carmen LEE

My Ph.D. dissertation aims to scrutinize how sustainability in fashion is discursively formed and negotiated on the world's largest video-sharing platform to illuminate the confluence of sustainability, consumerism, and neoliberalism that impacts the realm of fashion.

Research Interests
multimodality, critical discourse analysis, ecolinguistics, environmental communication, celebrity studies
 
Selected Publications
2021
Lin, Y. (December 16-17, 2021). When justice-seeking goes digitalized: a multimodal critical discourse study of a plagiarism debate on social media. Paper presented at the conference The Digitalisation of Legal Discourse: Digital Genres, Media and Analytical Tools, Bergamo, Italy.
Conference Presentations
2022
Lin, Y. (26-30 May 2022). Media Representation of Fast Fashion's unsustainable problems: an MCDA study. Paper presented at the 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference. Paris, France