现代汉语的优雅现象 这是他的一篇代表性论文(1990年）
（1990）Politeness phenomena in modern Chinese (Journal of Pragmatics),
(1993) The impasse of perlocution (Journal of Pragmatics),
(1993) Pragmatics and rhetoric: a collaborative approach to conversation (Pretending to Communicate, ed. by Herman Parrate, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter),
(1996) Doctor-patient interaction as goal-directed discourse (Journal of Asian Pacific Communication)
(1997) Five ways of handling a bedpan (Text),
(1999) Speaker, hearer and an actual user (Journal of Pragmatics),
(1999) Towards a model of situated discourse analysis (Semantics and Pragmatics Interface, ed. Ken Turner).
