Editorial

Author Biographies

• Xinren Chen, Nanjing University

  Xinren Chen is Professor of English and Linguistics in the School of Foreign Studies at Nanjing University, P. R. China and is co-editor of East Asian Pragmatics. He has published papers in pragmatics and foreign language teaching in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Modern Foreign Languages and Contemporary Linguistics. The major monographs he authors or co-authors include Contemporary Pragmatics, English Grammar in Use, The Pragmatics of Overinformativeness in Conversation, A Critical Pragmatic Perspective on Public Discourse, Politeness Theories and Foreign Language Learning and Pragmatics and Foreign Language Teaching.

• Dániel Z Kádár, University of Huddersfield/Hungarian Academy of Sciences

  Daniel Z. Kadar (D.Litt, FHEA, PhD) is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Pragmatics Research at Dalian University of Foreign Studies. He is also Research Professor of Pragmatics and Head of Research Centre at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been author and editor of more than 20 books, published by academic publishers of world-leading standing such as Equinox, Cambridge, Palgrave and Bloomsbury. He has also published a large number of studies in high-impact journals such as Journal of Politeness Research and Journal of Pragmatics. His most recent works include Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction (Cambridge, 2017), The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic Politeness (edited with Jonathan Culpeper and Michael Haugh, Palgrave, 2017), and Understanding Politeness (with Michael Haugh, Cambridge, 2013). He is Editor (with Xinren Chen) of Equinox’s East Asian Pragmatics journal.