Service

Service to Academic Community | Service to Community Development and Tibetan Buddhism

Membership, Review and Editorial Work

• Member of the Editorial Board of PAAL (Pan-asiatic Applied Linguistics Association)

• Member of International Pragmatics Association

• Reviewer for international journals: Manusya, Journal of Humanities; Anthropological Linguistics; Journal of Linguistic Anthropology; Intercultural Pragmatics; Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area.

• Coordinator and editorial assistant to the book project on linguistic politeness (2000-2005)

• Editor of the book projects on critical discourse and pragmatics (2004-2005)

• Set up a forum on language and society in Thailand (work in progress from September 2004)

Conferences Organized

• First International Symposium on Linguistic Politeness to celebrate the Royal Golden Jubilee of His Majesty the King Bhumipol (with Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin as Chair), December 7-9, 1999, Boromrajakumari Building, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. (Output of this project: a volume on linguistic politeness edited by Robin Lakoff and Sachiko Ide to be published by John Benjamins (Pragmatics and Beyond Series). (Link)

• First National Conference on Language, Society and Culture: Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies (with Jantima Earmanond as Vice Chair), July 29-30, 2004, Mahachulalongkorn Building, Chulalongkorn University. (Output of this project: a volume on language, discourse and Thai society edited by Krisadawan Hongladarom and Jantima Earmanond to be submitted for publication by Chulalongkorn University Press.

(Link: http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/~ling/LSC.html)

• 11th Himalayan Languages Symposium and Workshop on
Old Tibetan, December 6-9, 2005, Boromrajakumari Building, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University. (Link: http://www.socialanthropology.org/hls/)

Service to Community Development and Tibetan Buddhism

In 2004 I established a non-profit, non-governmental organization called "Thousand Stars Foundation" to disseminate knowledge about the language, religion and culture of the Tibetan people, promote dialogues among the Thai and Tibetan traditions of Buddhism, preserve Tibetan heritage and develop Tibetan communities as well as act as a center for Tibetan studies in Thailand.