Recent talks, conference presentations, and workshops
Keynote speaker. Intersubjectivity and the emergence of the existential construction haiyou in Mandarin conversation. Workshop on Subjectivity, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands. January 15, 2018.
Invited workshop in corpus linguistics. 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics. Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio, March 8, 2018.
Keynote speaker. Academic Chinese Corpora: Construction and Applications. Beyond a limited scope: Chinese for Specific, Academic, and Professional Purposes. University of Hawai'i at Manoa, March 31, 2018.
Invited lecture series: 1) Seeking order amidst chaos: Internet language and its linguistic, social, and cultural underpinnings; 2) Genre-based approaches: Reflections and future directions; 3) Universals and variations in fixed expressions; 4) Corpus linguistic workshop. University of Macau, Macau, April 12-19, 2018.
Invited speaker. Functional perspectives on some traditional controversial issues in Chinese linguistics. 2018 International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, International Association for Chinese Linguistics, Madison, Wisconsin. May 5, 2018.
Keynote speaker. Using authentic materials in a traditional L2 Chinese language classroom setting: Theory and practice. International Symposium on Chinese Language Teaching: Theory and Practice, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. May 24, 2018.
Keynote speaker. From existential to interpersonal: The emergence of haiyou as a linking device in Mandarin conversation. Fifth International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse, University of Sydney, Australia, June 20, 2018.
Invited speaker. Academic Chinese and English: Comparisons based on corpora. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Verona, Italy, July 4, 2018.
Keynote speaker. Categorical statements in Mandarin conversation.3rd International Conference on Interaction Linguistics and Chinese Studies. Beijing Language and Culture University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Beijing, China. August 24, 2018.
Invited workshop. International Summer Institute: Action-based research and Chinese linguistics. Beijing Language and Culture University. Beijing, China, August 26-27, 2018.
Invited participant. Generic expressions to person in Mandarin conversation: An interactional perspective. Workshop on Referentiality. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. September 7-9, 2018.
Invited speaker. (Joint work with Wei Wang) Probing from the extremes: An interactional perspective on extremely short (and long) prosodic units in Mandarin conversation. International Workshop on Divergent Prosodic Units and Fuzzy Boundaries. Department of English and American Studies, Potsdam University. Potsdam, Germany, September 13-15, 2018.
Keynote speaker. Aspects of the interface of rhetoric and grammar. Forum on Rhetoric and Grammar. Shanghai University of Foreign Studies. Shanghai, China, October 20, 2018.
Invited speaker. Current issues in register and grammar. School of International Chinese Education, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Shanghai, China, October 21, 2018.
Invited speaker. Developing interactional competence: Theory and pedagogical implementations. Symposium on Chinese Linguistics and Language Teaching. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, October 27, 2018.
Invited participant. Generic references to person in Mandarin conversation: An interactional perspective. Preconferene Workshop on Referentiality in Asian Languages. The 26th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, UCLA, November 28, 2018.
Invited speaker. Fixed expressions in (inter)action: Diverse formulas and their interactional consequences. Workshop on Formulaic Language. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Tokyo, Japan. December 27, 2018.
