From the way we talk, it shows the way we are.

• I focus on how individuals draw upon linguistics resources from repertoires to negotiate identities between self, other and ideological structure.

• My particular focus is immigrants who tend to face more tensions (e.g., the conflict between different ethnicities); thus their needs for identity negotiation are intensified.

• I have been conducting an ethnography on Filipino youth immigrants in Macau over the past two years.

Love is complicated, and our conversation co-constructs it.

• I employ conversation analysis to examine how individuals (esp. couple) utilize various semiotic resources sequentially to construct the (dis)alignment and (dis)affiliation in conversation.

• I attempt to show that, beyond alignment and affiliation, individuals strive for affective reciprocity (or love more generally) in the sequential unfolding of conversation.

We perform ourselves with our style everyday.

• I am interested to examine the ways in which media performers recruit ideologically-loaded linguistic resources to construct their style and persona.

• The composite of style and persona for media production and consumption is argued to be a type of linguistic commodification.