Language, because of the multiplicity of its function, has a fugue-like quality in which a number of themes unfold simultaneously; each of these themes is apprehended in various settings, or perspectives, and each melodic line in the syntactic sequence has more than one value in the whole.

20 May 2009
"Power and Professional Identity in the Workplace: Models, Methods and Interpretations" presented by Professor Janet Holmes

1-5 December 2008
"The 14th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes" organized by Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics