Dalian University of Foreign Languages

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Dalian University of Foreign Languages*

Titles

Politeness in and across Historical Europe: Special issue of the Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 (2023)

Edited by Annick Paternoster, Gudrun Held & Dániel Z. Kádár

Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

[Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 24:1] 2023. | special issue

The Pragmatics of Ritual: Special issue of Pragmatics 30:1

Edited by Dániel Z. Kádár & Juliane House

Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

[Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 30:1] 2020. | special issue | open access

Jing, Ying & Zhou-min Yuan 2026 Review of The Pragmatics of Managing Negative Emotions in a Chinese Context by Rong Lei (2025)

Pragmatics and Society | Online First Publication, 6 pp. | book review

Shi, Wenrui, Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House & Fengguang Liu 2026 Unsolicited advice in mediatised Chinese New Year celebrations: An interaction ritual approach

Keywords: unsolicited advice | Chinese New Year celebrations | Douyin (TikTok) | ritual | speech acts | interaction

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 28 pp. | article

Han, Dan, Juliane House, Fengguang Liu & Dániel Z. Kádár 2025 Complaining in historical Chinese criminal trials

Keywords: Complain | interaction | late imperial Chinese criminal trials | ritual | speech acts

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:3 pp. 438–466 | article

Liu, Fengguang, Li Zhang, Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár 2025 Flattery in historical China: A pragmatic perspective

Keywords: flattery | historical Chinese | interaction ritual | speech acts | interaction

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 30 pp. | article | open access

House, Juliane, Dániel Z. Kádár, Tadej Todorović, Matjaž Klemenčič, David Hazemali, Tomaž Onič & Katja Plemenitaš 2024 Capturing power in diplomatic language use: The case of a closed-door mediatory negotiation and its aftermath during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia

Keywords: diplomatic mediation | negotiation | power | speech acts | Yugoslavia

Journal of Language and Politics 24:5 pp. 713–740 | article | open access

Chen, Jiejun, Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár 2024 Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts: A historical contrastive pragmatic inquiry

Keywords: “face”-related expressions | historical contrastive analysis | Mandarin | Minnan | Peking Opera | Teochew Opera

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:2 pp. 175–205 | article | open access

Liu, Shiyu, Rong Chen & Fengguang Liu 2024 Crazy literature: A case of mock self-impoliteness

Keywords: crazy literature | mock self-impoliteness | motivation | transactional effectiveness

Pragmatics 35:4 pp. 579–603 | article

Kádár, Dániel Z. 2023 Review of Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form, Function, and Grammaticalization by Winnie Chor (2018)

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:2 pp. 332–337 | book review | open access

Kádár, Dániel Z., Juliane House & Hao Liu 2023 Beyond the deferential view of the Chinese V pronoun nin 您

Keywords: Chinese | V pronoun | nin | disagreement

Pragmatics 35:2 pp. 155–184 | article

Chen, Rong & Dafu Yang 2023 Conventions of author self-reference in Chinese academic writing: Modesty as motivation

Keywords: identity construction | convention | conventionalization | social values | modesty | academic writing | self-reference

Pragmatics and Society 15:3 pp. 425–447 | article

Li, Ke & Wenyu Liu 2023 Delving into suggestion speech acts in Chinese authoritative academic discourse: A cognitive pragmatic perspective

Keywords: suggestions | politeness | authoritative academic discourse | cognitive pragmatics | China

Pragmatics 34:2 pp. 161–189 | article

House, Juliane, Dániel Z. Kádár, Fengguang Liu & Wenrui Shi 2023 Historical language use in Europe from a contrastive pragmatic perspective: An exploratory case study of letter closings

Keywords: contrastive pragmatics | family letters | farewell | speech act

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 pp. 143–159 | article

Kádár, Dániel Z., Gudrun Held & Annick Paternoster 2023 Introduction: Politeness in and across Historical Europe

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 pp. 1–15 | introduction

Deng, Yaochen & Dilin Liu 2022 A multi-dimensional comparison of the effectiveness and efficiency of association measures in collocation extraction

Keywords: association measures | collocations | collocation extraction | effectiveness and efficiency of association measures | multi-dimensional evaluation

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:2 pp. 191–219 | article

Márquez Reiter, Rosina & Dániel Z. Kádár 2022 Sociality and moral conflicts: Migrant stories of relational vulnerability

Keywords: sociality | sociability | moral oughts | social oughts | Chinese | Latin American | (im)politeness

Pragmatics and Society 13:1 pp. 1–21 | article

Kádár, Dániel Z. 2022 Review of Politeness in the History of English – From the Middle Ages to the Present Day by Andreas H. Jucker (2020)

Pragmatics and Society 12:5 pp. 865–869 | book review

Kádár, Dániel Z., Juliane House, Fengguang Liu & Yulong Song 2021 Admonishing: A paradoxical pragmatic behaviour in ancient China

Keywords: admonishing | speech act | Suggest | ancient China | ritual

Pragmatics 31:2 pp. 173–197 | article | open access

Tian, Weiqi, Hongmei Chai & Lin Lu 2021 Integrating CDA with ideological rhetorical criticism in the investigation of Abe Cabinet’s discursive construction in “Indo-Pacific Strategy”

Keywords: Abe Cabinet | Indo-Pacific strategy | Socio-cognitive approach to CDA | ideological rhetorical criticism | context model | ideograph | discursive construction

Journal of Language and Politics 21:3 pp. 435–458 | article

Kádár, Dániel Z. 2020 Review of Exploring Politeness in Business Emails: A Mixed-Methods Analysis by Vera Freytag (2020)

Pragmatics and Society 11:4 pp. 669–673 | book review

Qu, Changliang 2020 Introducing and translating Otto Jespersen in China in the past 100 years: Embracing, shunning, forgetting and reviving

Keywords: Otto Jespersen | Chinese grammar | linguistic historiography | extra-linguistic reasons

In: History of Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, (ICHoLS 14), Paris, 28 August – 1 September, Aussant, Émilie & Jean-Michel Fortis (eds.) [Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 127] pp. 143–156

Kádár, Dániel Z. & Juliane House 2020 The pragmatics of ritual: An introduction

Keywords: ritual | definition | methodological approaches

Pragmatics 30:1 pp. 1–14 | article | open access

Ran, Yongping, Linsen Zhao & Dániel Z. Kádár 2020 The rite of reintegrative shaming in Chinese public dispute mediation

Keywords: shaming | mediation | Chinese | reintegration | morality | ritual frame

Pragmatics 30:1 pp. 40–63 | article | open access

Kádár, Dániel Z. & Saeko Fukushima 2020 The meta-conventionalisation and moral order of e-practices: A Japanese case study

Keywords: meta-conventionalisation | interpersonal interaction | conventional practices | moral order | Japanese | otaku

In: (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 107] pp. 149–173

Kádár, Dániel Z. & Kim Ridealgh 2019 Introduction

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 20:2 pp. 169–185 | introduction

Kádár, Dániel Z., Vahid Parvaresh & Puyu Ning 2019 Morality, moral order, and language conflict and aggression: A position paper

Keywords: morality | moral order | pragmatics | ethnomethodology | ritual | aggression

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7:1 p. 6 | article

Kádár, Dániel & Juliane House 2020 Ritual frame and ‘politeness markers’

Keywords: ritual frame | standard situations | ‘politeness markers’ | Chinese | English

Pragmatics and Society 10:4 pp. 639–647 | other

Kádár, Dániel Z. & Juliane House 2019 Ritual frames: A contrastive pragmatic approach

Keywords: standard situation | ritual-frame indicating-expression (RFIE) | contrastive pragmatic analysis | corpora | Chinese | English

Pragmatics 30:1 pp. 142–168 | article | open access

Kádár, Dániel Z. & Andrea Szalai 2019 The socialisation of interactional rituals: A case study of ritual cursing as a form of teasing in Romani

Keywords: cursing | Roma | ritual | socialisation | teasing | harm

Pragmatics 30:1 pp. 15–39 | article | open access

Bull, Peter, Anita Fetzer & Dániel Z. Kádár 2019 Calling Mr Speaker ‘Mr Speaker’: The strategic use of ritual references to the Speaker of the UK House of Commons

Keywords: Prime Ministers Questions | the Speaker | face-threats | indirectness | conflict avoidance | unparliamentary language

Pragmatics 30:1 pp. 64–87 | article | open access

Kádár, Dániel Z. & Sen Zhang 2019 Alignment, ‘politeness’ and implicitness in Chinese political discourse: A case study of the 2018 vaccine scandal

Keywords: Chinese political language | alignment | politeness | implicitness | announcements

Journal of Language and Politics 18:5 pp. 698–717 | article

Parvaresh, Vahid & Dániel Z. Kádár 2019 Morality and language aggression

Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7:1 pp. 1–5 | introduction

Kádár, Dániel Z. & Saeko Fukushima 2019 The meta-conventionalisation and moral order of e-practices: A Japanese case study

Keywords: meta-conventionalisation | interpersonal interaction | conventional practices | moral order | Japanese | otaku

Internet Pragmatics 1:2 pp. 352–378 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.