"Turning Walls into Bridges: Engaging the Ethnography of Communication and Intercultural Communication" has been accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the International Association for Intercultural
Communication Studies, Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 13-17, 2008.

"Everyday Talk, Culture, and Identities: A Chinese Illustration," has been accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the National Communication Association (NCA) in San Diego, CA, Nov. 21-24, 2008.

"Courtroom Questioning as a Culturally Situated Persuasive Genre of Talk" was included as a book chapter in "Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication" (ch. 45) (Ed. S. Blum. Published by Oxford University Publications, Oct.2008)  (with a co-author), "Culture and communication: Ethnographic research theory and methods" was included as a book chapter in "Readings in media education" (Ed. Fan H., published by Qing Hua University Press in Beijing in July 2008) (in Chinese).