So far, our team has captured a significant amount of major funding:

 

1. August 2020 – September 2021 (PI Dániel Kádár)

Dániel Kádár and Sen Zhang (Dalian University of Foreign Languages) successfully secured the grant of the China Scholarship Council, hosted by the Centre for Pragmatics Research at NYTI. Our application was successful, and we received a funding of 7,700 euros, i.e. HUF 2,720,000 to cover Mr Zhang’s expenses.​

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     2. April 2020 – March 2022 (PI Dániel Kádár)

Dániel Kádár (Principal Investigator) and Juliane House (Co-Investigator), Centre for Pragmatics Research, RILHAS), ‘Globalisation and Language Use – A Contrastive Pragmatic Inquiry’ (132969), funded by the NKFIH (Hungarian National Research Fund), HUF 10,914,000, Kadar and House successfully secured this major NKFIH grant. The project aims to study RFIEs in the context of globalisation, and as such it plays an integral part in our Momentum Project.

 

     3. October 2019 – September 2021

Foreign Co-Investigator, 辽宁省高等学校国（境）外培养项目 Liaoning Provincial Fund for Higher Educational Exchange Overseas, to support collaboration between the Research Office of Dalian University of Foreign Languages and the Pragmatics Research Centre of NYTI, RMB 48,000 (ca. HUF 2.150.000 per year, over a period of 2 years = ca. HUF 4.300.000).

This grant is to be spent on the travel costs of Chinese short terms visitors to the Centre for Pragmatics Research, working on interactional ritual theory.

 

     4. August 2019 – September 2020 (Dániel Kádár)

Dániel Kádár and Dan Han (Dalian University of Foreign Languages) successfully secured the grant of the China Scholarship Council, hosted by the Centre for Pragmatics Research at NYTI. Our application was successful, and we received a funding of 7,700 euros, i.e. HUF 2,720,000, to cover Mr Han’ss expenses.

 

     5. September 2019 – August 2020 (Dániel Kádár)

Dániel Kádár was invited to be an External Investigator for the project ‘Linguocultural identity and communicative styles in various sociocultural contexts’ project, funded by RUDN University, Moscow, Russia. There is no strict-sense income from this project, which only pays for Kádár’s trips to Moscow, but it increases the international visibility of our Team.

 

     6. September 2018 – August 2022

Andrea Szalai and Dániel Kádár successfully applied for the project “Politeness, Relational Rituals and Relational Work in Romani and Beas Interaction”, funded by the Hungarian National Research Fund, in the value of HUF 43,819,000. This project is very closely related to the Lendület project: it aims to undertake an empirical investigation of the theoretical frameworks developed in our project. This project devotes special attention to a) ritual socialisation; b) the interactional ritual of offer in Romani; and c) gendered ritual practices; d) rituals in conflict mediation.

 

     7. July 2018 (Dániel Kádár)

Funding from Tsuru University, Japan, to cover my participation at the annual conference of the Linguistic Politeness Research Groups (JP Yen 10,000).

 

     8. August 2018 – December 2018

We have started to collaborate with the New Generation Foundation (Új Nemzedék Alapítvány): based on our observations of data, we have elaborated intercultural training methods based on intercultural rituals, through which we believe we can support the social integration and economic success of people living abroad, such as Hungarians working in the UK. The Foundation generously offered us the amount of HUF 2,000,000 to visit London and deliver test trainings in 2018 and 2019.

 

     9. September 2017 – August 2019

Dániel Kádár brought a Taiwanese grant (Humour in Taiwan), supported by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, in consortium with the University of Queensland, University of Wollongong, and National Taiwan Normal University, to the Institute. The overall amount of this grant is £38,000 (ca. HUF 14 million), and our share of the grant is approximately HUF 3 million. We have used this funding partly to cover travel expenses, and partly to appoint a Chinese junior research fellow (between August 2018 and May 2019) to help Puyu Ning’s work.

 

     10. September 2018 – November 2018

With the support of the Institute, the PD successfully applied Hungarian Academy of Sciences Visiting Professor research grant for hosting Professor Juliane House (Hellenic University of Athens) to undertake joint research in the Centre for Pragmatics Research at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The amount of the grant is HUF 6,498,000. Professor House is one of the internationally most well-known experts of pragmatics, and she is now formally affiliated with our Team.

 

     11. September 2018 – July 2019

Dániel Kádár and Lili Gong’s (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) jointly applied to host Lili as a postdoctoral research fellow, for the China Scholarship Council. Our application was successful, and we received 7,700 euros, i.e. HUF 2,720,000 to cover Lili Gong’s expenses.

 

     12. August 2018 – January 2019

In addition, Kádár jointly applied with Jia Qiu (Nanjing University) to the same organisation (China Scholarship Council), to host Jia as a doctoral research fellow. Our application was successful, and we obtained 4,200 euros, i.e. approximately HUF 1,360,000 to cover Jia’s cost.

 

     13. September 2018 – December 2018

Kádár jointly applied as CI with Dick Smackman for the small research grant of Leiden University, to be able to ‘buy out’ Smackman’s teaching and also to be able to hire a research assistant in the Netherlands. The main goal of this research is to create a ‘ritual booth’, i.e. a public space where Kádár can test his interactional ritual theory in public settings; Smackman from Leiden University has worked with Kádár for a longer period, and he and Kádár felt that involving him at the present project will allow them to work together, and also the findings of this project may serve as lead-in for a major ERC grant application that Kádár intends to make in 2019. Our application was successful, and we obtained the funding of 16,000 Euros, which we spent partly on Smackman’s ‘buyout’ of teaching and partly to hire a research assistant. Importantly, the participants of this project agreed that the publications and other forms of dissemination coming out of this project will run under the name of Kádár as the main author, in order to enable him to use this project as a kick-start for his ERC grant application.

Since this grant did not increase our own staff numbers/income, we do not add it to the overall sum below.

 

     14. September 2018 – August 2019

Kádár acted as International Consultant for the research project “An interpersonal pragmatic study on identity construction in Chinese and American institutional discourses” (PI: Chengtuan Li, grant of the Chinese Ministry of Education, hosted by the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies). For his consultancy he receives a fee of RMB5,000 (ca. HUF 200,000) as research support, which he spent on conducting fieldwork in China.

 

     15. July 2018

As an educational venture, our team has organised the 1st RILHAS Summer School in Linguistics, in collaboration with the School of English Studies of the Fujian Normal University, China. As part of the summer school, we hosted 37 students and received funding of .

 

16June 2018 – September 2018

Hosting Iknur Civan (Anadolou University, Turkey) as Intern, with the support of the Erasmus exchange scheme. Iknur’s costs have been covered by the Erasmus Mobility Scheme, and she received a support of 1,200 euros (ca. ).

 

In total, we captured income in the value of HUF 80,393,000. The overall Momentum funding for the 5 year is HUF 130,000,000, which means that to date we captured approximately 61.5% of the overall sum of the funding we received and approximately 100% of the funding for the current period of the project.