This document lists 8 presentations given by A. Seto between 2011-2014 at various international conferences and workshops. The presentations focus on analyzing speech acts used in different service encounters and business contexts such as hotels, airports, job interviews, business meetings, telephone calls, and more through the use of corpus linguistics. The conferences took place in various locations in Asia including Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and others.

1. Paper presented at international conference / workshop
1. Seto, A. (2014). Request in service encounters. Second Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference
(APCLC 2014). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, 7-9 March 2014.
2. Seto, A. (2013). Speech acts in job and placement interviews. Seventh International Conference on
Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise (DICOEN VII). The University of International Business
and Economics, Beijing, China, 18-20 October 2013.
3. Seto, A. (2013) Speech acts in hotel service encounters. 2013 International Conference on Applied
Foreign Languages (2013-ICAFLs). National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism,
Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 23-24 May 2013.
4. Seto, A. (2012). Speech acts in business meetings. ‘Mapping ESP Frontiers: Bridging Teaching,
Research and Practice’: The 1st
International Conference of the Chinese Association for ESP & the 4th
International Conference on ESP in Asia. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China,
13-16 December 2012.
5. Seto, A. (2012). Speech acts in telephone and conference calls. The 6th
Conference on Language,
Discourse, and Cognition (CLDC2012). National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 4-6 May 2012.
6. Seto, A. (2012). Speech acts in airport service encounters. 8th
International Congress on English
Grammar (8th
ICEG). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, 12-14 January 2012.
7. Seto, A. (2011). Speech acts annotation for service encounters in hotels. Sixth International Conference
on Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise (DICEON VI). The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University, Hong Kong, China, 8-10 September 2011.
8. Seto, A. (2011). ‘thanks a bunch’: Combining pragmatics and corpus linguistics. The 16th World
Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA2011). Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée
(International Association of Applied Linguistics) and Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China, 23-28
August 2011 (with Winnie Cheng).