Journal Articles

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C

Luo, Z., & Zayts-Spence, O. (2024). “Doing genetic literacy”: a discourse-oriented approach to literacy in genetic contexts. New Genetics and Society, 43(1), e2435832. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14636778.2024.2435832

Edmonds, D. M., & Zayts-Spence, O. (2024). “I’m not an anxious person”: end-of-life care workers constructing positive psychological states. BMC psychology, 12(1), 432. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-01885-5

Wu, J. Z. Z., Zayts-Spence, O., & Fortune, Z. (2024). Conceptualizing mental health stigma in organizational settings: a sociolinguistic perspective. BMC psychology, 12(1), 713. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-02127-4

Tse, V. W. S., & Zayts-Spence, O. (2024). “Yu haf no idr how feckin fablus I feel rite now”:“Wine mom” humour in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19. Discourse, Context & Media, 61, 100816. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100816

Edmonds, D. M., Zayts-Spence, O., Au, I. N. Y., & Yuen, J. K. Y. (2024). “They are not taking it seriously”: Constructing family dynamics in end-of-life care interactions in Hong Kong. Death Studies, 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2385383

Edmonds, D. M., Zayts-Spence, O., Fortune, Z., Chan, A., & Chou, J. S. G. (2024). A scoping review to map the research on the mental health of students and graduates during their university-to-work transitions. BMJ Open, 14(3), e076729. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076729

Edmonds, D., Zayts-Spence, O., Fortune, Z., & Fung, S.Y.J. (2023). Graduates’ perceptions and employers’ expectations: Essential skills in Hong Kong workplaces during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Industry and Higher Education. Advance online publication.
https://doi.org/10.1177/09504222231224087

Zayts-Spence, O., Edmonds, D., & Fortune, Z. (2023). Mental Health, Discourse and Stigma. BMC Psychology, 11(1), 180. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359023012106

Ng, S., Wong, W.C.P., Reidy, H, & Zayts, O. (2023).“It’s personal”: The relationship between personal mental health experiences and public expressions of mental health stigma. BJPsy Open, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.39

Zayts, O., Edmonds, D. M., Kong, B. C. K., & Fortune, Z. (2023). Mental health of new and recent graduates during the university-to-work transition: A scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 13(4), e071357. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-071357

Zayts-Spence, O. A., Tse, V. W. S., & Fortune, Z. (2023). ‘Feel like going crazy’: Mental health discourses in an online support group for mothers during COVID-19. Discourse & Society, 34(2), 255–270. https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265221116302

Edmonds, D., Zayts, O., Adler, C. (2022). Communicating in crisis: Reflections, opportunities, and challenges for healthcare communication in the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative Health Communication, 1(2): 104-117.

Lazzaro-Salazar, M. & Zayts, O. (2021). Migrant doctors' narratives about patients: A study of professional identity in Chile and Hong Kong. Narrative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.21038.laz.

Hui LC & Zayts, O. (2021). Elicitation of children’s understanding of information in pediatric genetic counseling: A discourse analytic approach. Journal of Genetic Counseling. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgc4.1523

Zayts, O., Chung, B.H.Y., & Fung, J.L.F. (2021). Cultural diversity in genetic counseling, or ‘Do language and culture really matter?’: An interdisciplinary investigation in Hong Kong. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 30(1): 75-84.

Wong, H.M., Bridges, S.M. Ma, K.W., Yiu CKY, McGrath, C.P., & Zayts, O.A. (2020). Advanced informatics understanding of clinician-patient communication: A mixed method approach to oral health literacy talk in interpreter-mediated pediatric dentistry. PLoS ONE, 15(3): e0230575.

Zayts, O. & Norrick, N. (2020). Narratives of vicarious experience in professional and workplace contexts: Introduction to the special issue. Journal of Pragmatics, 155: 64-49.

Zayts, O. & Norrick, N. (2020). “Pragmatics is the way of the future”: An interview with Neal Norrick. Journal of Pragmatics, 156: 16-23.

Luo, Z., Zayts, O., & Shipman, H. (2020) “His story is truly vivid…”: The role of narratives of vicarious experience in commodification and marketisation of genetic testing in Chinese social media. Journal of Pragmatics, 155: 11-122.

Schnurr, S., Zayts, O., Schroeder, A., & Le Coyte-Hopkins, C. (2019). “It is not acceptable for the husband to stay at home”: Taking a discourse analytic perspective to capture the gendering at work. Gender, Work and Organization, 27 (3): 414-434.

Pilnick, A. & Zayts, O. (2019). The power of suggestion: Examining the impact of presence or absence of shared first language in the antenatal clinic. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41 (6): 1120-1137.

Zayts, O., Shipman, H., Fung, J. L-F., Liu, A. P-Y., Kwok, S-Y., Tsai, A. C-H., Yung, T-C., & Chung, B. H-Y. (2019). The different facets of “culture” in genetic counseling: A situated analysis of genetic counseling in Hong Kong. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, 181(2): 187-195.

Chan, A., Schnurr, S. & Zayts, O. (2018). Exploring face, identity and relational work in disagreements in business meetings in Hong Kong. Language, Behaviour, Culture, 14(2): 233-260.

Zayts, O. & Luo, Z. (2017). Commodification and marketization of genetic testing through online direct-to-consumer platforms. Discourse and Communication, 11(6), 630–647.

Laurino, M. Y., Leppig, K.A., Abad, P.J., Cham, B., Chu, Y., Kejriwal, S., Lee, J. M. H., Sternen, D. L.,Thompson, J.K., Burgess, M., Chien, S., Elackatt, N., Lim, J. Y., Sura, T., Faradz, S., Padilla, C., Cutiongco de-la Paz, E., Nauphar, D., Khanh Nguyen, N., Zayts, O., Chi, D.V., & Thong, M.-K. (2017). The establishment of the Professional Society of Genetic Counselors in Asia: A Report from the genetic counseling pre-conference workshop held at the 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Human Genetics in Hanoi, Viet Nam. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 27(1): 21-32.

Wong, H.M. G., Bridges, S.M., McGrath, C. P., Yiu, C. K. Y., Zayts, O., & Au, T.K.F. (2017). Impact of prominent themes in clinician-patient conversations on caregiver’s perceived quality of communication with paediatric dental visits. PLoS One, 12(1): e0169059.

Zayts, O., Sarangi, S., & Schnurr, S. (2016). The management of diagnostic uncertainty and decision-making in genetics case conferences. Communication and Medicine, 13(1): 37-55.

Schnurr, S., Zayts, O., & Hopkins, C. (2016). Challenging hegemonic femininities. The discourse of trailing spouses in Hong Kong. Language in Society, 45 (4): 533-555.

Pilnick, A. & Zayts, O. (2016). Advice, authority and autonomy in Shared Decision Making in antenatal screening: The importance of context. Sociology of Health and Illness, 38 (3): 343-359.

Bridges, S., Drew, P., Zayts, O., McGrath, C., Yiu, C.K.Y., Wong, H. M., Au, T. K. F., & Chong, B.H. (2015). Interpreter-mediated Dentistry. Social Science and Medicine, 132: 197-207.

Chan, A., Zhang, W., Zayts, O., Tang M. H.Y., & Tam, W. K. (2015). Directive-giving and grammatical forms: Mitigation devices in a medical laboratory setting. Chinese Language and Discourse, 6 (2): 133-161.

Zayts, O. & Schnurr, S. (2014). More than ‘information provider’ and ‘counselor’: Constructing and negotiating roles and identities of nurses in genetic counseling sessions. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 18(3): 345-369.

Pilnick, A. & Zayts, O. (2014). "It’s just a likelihood": uncertainty as topic and resource in conveying ‘positive’ results in an antenatal screening clinic. Symbolic Interaction, 37(2): 187-208.

Yau, A. & Zayts, O. (2014). "I don’t want to see my children suffering after birth": The ‘risk of knowing’ talk and decision-making in prenatal screening for Down syndrome in Hong Kong. Health, Risk and Society, 16(3): 259-276.

Schnurr, S., van de Mieroop, D. & Zayts, O. (2014). Positioning oneself in relation to larger collectivities in expatriates’ workplace narratives. Narrative Inquiry, 24 (2).

Zayts, O., Sarangi, S., Thong, M.K., Chung, B.H.Y., Lo, I.F.M., Kan, A.S.Y., Lee, M.H., Padilla, C.D., Cutiongco-de la Paz, E.M., Faradz, M.H.S., & Wasant, P. (2013). Genetic counseling/consultation in South-East Asia: A report from the workshop at the 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Human Genetics. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 22 (6): 917-924.

Kang, M. A. & Zayts, O. (2013). Interactional difficulties as a resource for patient participation in a prenatal screening setting in Hong Kong. Patient Education and Counseling, 92: 38-44.

Schnurr, S. & Zayts, O. (2013). “I can't remember them ever not doing what I tell them!” Negotiating ‘upward’ refusals in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong. Intercultural Pragmatics, 10 (4): 593 – 616.

Zayts, O. & Sarangi, S. (2013). Modes of risk explanation in telephone consultations between nurses and parents for a genetic condition. Health, Risk and Society, 5(2): 194-215.

Zayts, O. & Schnurr, S. (2013). “[She] said: ‘take the test’ and I took the test”. Relational work as a framework to approach directiveness in prenatal screening of Chinese clients in Hong Kong. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behavior, Culture, 9(2): 187-210.

Schnurr, S. & Zayts, O. (2012). ‘You have to do what you have to do’: Constructing professional identities in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong. Pragmatics, 22(2): 279-299.

Pilnick, A. & Zayts, O. (2012). “Let’s have it tested first”: Choice and circumstances in decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong. Sociology of Health and Illness, Special issue, The Sociology of Medical Screening: Past, Present and Future, N. Armstrong & H. Eborall, eds., 34 (2): 266-282.

Zayts, O. & Schnurr, S. (2011). Laughter as a medical provider’s resource: Negotiating informed choice in prenatal genetic counseling. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 44 (1): 1-20.*

Zayts, O. & Kang, A.M. (2010). Communication in healthcare settings: Interactional perspectives from Asia. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 20(2): 165-168.

Zayts, O. & Kang, A. M. (2010). Information delivery in prenatal genetic counseling: On the role of initial Inquiries. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 20(2): 243-259.

Kang, M. A. & Zayts, O. (2010). Patient participation within a globalised patient population: Interactional difficulties in a prenatal counseling context in Hong Kong. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, 20(2): 169-184.

Zayts, O. & Kang, A.M. (2009). ‘So, what test do you prefer?’ Negotiating politic behavior in an L2 prenatal genetic counselling setting in Hong Kong. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, 5 (1): 33-52.