Major Research Interests

Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, Intercultural Communication, Politeness, Second Language Teaching, Translation Theory and Practice

Education

Feb. 2018— PhD Program in intercultural pragmatics, School of Linguistics, Pázmány Péter Catholic University,

Budapest, Hungary

Sept.2004—Apr.2007 Master of Arts in the studies of western society and culture, School of Foreign Languages, North China

Electric Power University, Beijing, China

Sept.1996—Jul. 2000 Bachelor of Arts in English and international economics, Department of English and International Studies,

China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing, China

Employment

Aug. 2017— Centre for Pragmatics Research, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,

Budapest, Hungary

Sept. 2000— School of Foreign Languages, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China

Oct.2007—Oct.2008 International Relations Department, Beijing Organizing for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, Beijing, China

Recent Publication

2020 with Dániel Z. Kádár and Rong Chen, ‘Evaluation of explanation in interaction’ 解释性话语评价分析’, Modern Foreign

Languages (Xiandai waiyu 现代外语), 43(3), 161–173. (In Chinese)

2019 with Dániel Z. Kádár, ‘Ritual public humiliation – A case study of the applicability of pragmatics to model aggression’, Acta

Linguistica Academica, 66(2), 189–208. DOI: 10.1556/2062.2019.66.2.3

2019 with Dániel Z. Kádár, ‘Revisiting intercultural communication from an intercultural pragmatic angle – A case-study of Chinese

cultural norms’ 从跨文化语用学研究视角探索跨文化交际学研究的新途径 -- 以中国文化思想观念为例. Intercultural Studies

Forum (Kuawenhua yanjiu conglun 跨文化研究从轮), 1(1), 80-88. (In Chinese)

2019 with Dániel Z. Kádár and Vahid Parvaresh, ‘Morality, moral order, and language conflict and aggression – A position paper’,

Morality and language aggression, 7(1), 6-30.

2018 with Dániel Z. Kádár and Yongping Ran, ‘Public ritual apology and media –A case study of Chinese’, Discourse, Context and

Media, DOI:10.1016/j.dcm.2018.01.003

2013 ‘Translation strategies under intercultural context’, Studies in Literature and Language, 6 (3), 23-27.

Recent Conference talks

Oct. 2019 13th Annual MAER-Net Colloquium (Meta-Analysis of Economics Research Network) Greenwich University, London, UK,

Presentation: Cross-cultural apology studies: A meta-analysis

Sept. 2019 1st East Asian Pragmatics Symposium: Variational Pragmatics in East Asian Languages, Dalian University of Foreign

Languages, Dalian, China

Presentation: A meta-analysis of cross-cultural apology studies

July 2019 IAICS 2019: 25th International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies,

Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Presentation: Ritual excuse-Chinese vs. Hungarian from intercultural communication to interpersonal communication

June 2019 16th International Pragmatics Conference, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Presentation: Impoliteness in Chinese public humiliation

March 2018 Interpersonal Pragmatics Symposium, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China

Presentation: Ritual humiliation: A case study of Chinese