1. Professor, English Department, California State University San Bernardino USA
2. Professor, School of English Studies, Xi’an International Studies University Xi’an China
3. Professor Emerita, Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Hamburg Hamburg Germany
4. Distinguished Professor and Director of PhD Programme (Applied Linguistics), Hellenic American University Athens Greece
5. Qihang Chair Professor and Director of Research Centre, Centre for Pragmatics Research, Dalian University of Foreign Languages Dalian, Liaoning China
6. Research Professor and Chair of Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Momentum Interactional Rituals Research Group, Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics Budapest Hungary