Asian Americans

Culture and Language: How Stigma Can Impact Students’ Mental Health Conversations

College students in America have had a rise in mental health concerns, finding themselves facing internal and external troubles when seeking support and open dialogue. Although past studies discuss the external factors that impact the rise in mental health concerns in college students, few discuss the cultural factors that affect these college students’ ability to […]

Asian Americans, Chinese, college students, mental health, stigma

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(Ap)parent Gender: Gendered Language and its Use in Asian American Parenting

Sociolinguistics

Kara Chu, Iffet Dogan, Jay Iyengar, and Alisara Koomthong The following research seeks to observe linguistic variability in the way Asian immigrant parents speak to their Asian American sons compared to their daughters. Participants for the study include two female participants and one male participant who recorded phone calls with their parents sharing both good

Asian Americans, gender differences, intonation, Media, self-image

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