Metapragmatics and the Chinese Language

Xinren Chen is Professor of English and Linguistics at Nanjing University, China. He is currently the Executive Director of the China Research Centre for Language Strategies, (co-)editor of East Asian Pragmatics, Studies in Linguistics and Literature and China Language Strategies, and associate editor of Pragmatics. His publications include The Pragmatics of Overinformativeness in Conversation (2004); Pragmatic Identity: How to Do Things with Words of Identity (2018); Critical Pragmatic Studies on Chinese Public Discourse (2020); and Exploring Identity Work in Chinese Communication (2022). He is also the editor of the volumes Psycho-Pragmatic Analyses of Public Discourse (2013), Pragmatics and Foreign Language Teaching (2014), Politeness Phenomena across Chinese Genres (2017), and Pragmatics: New Perspectives and Development (2021).