LREC 2022 Tutorial

Daniel Z. Kadar

email: dannier@dlufl.edu.cn

Dániel Z. Kádár (D.Litt, FHEA, PhD) is Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Pragmatic Research at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China. He is also Research Professor and Head of Research Centre at the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary. Additionally, he also holds visiting faculty positions at Anglia Ruskin University, Beijing University of Foreign Studies and Fujian Normal University; Yunshan Chair Professor at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China and Zijin Professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He is author of 25 books and edited volumes, published with publishing houses of international standing such as Cambridge University Press. He is co-editor of Contrastive Pragmatics: A Cross-Disciplinary Journal. His research interests include the pragmatics of ritual, linguistic (im)politeness research, language aggression, contrastive pragmatics and historical pragmatics.

Juliane House

email: jhouse@fastmail.fm

Juliane House received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Toronto and Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Jyväskylä and Jaume I, Castellon. She is Professor Emerita, Hamburg University, Distinguished University Professor at Hellenic American University, Nashua, NH, USA and Athens, Greece, Honorary Visiting Professor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Dalian University of Foreign Studies, and Beijing University of Science and Technology. She is co-editor of the Brill journal Contrastive Pragmatics: A Cross-Disciplinary Journal, and Past President of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies. Her research interests include contrastive pragmatics, discourse analysis, politeness, translation, and intercultural communication. She has published widely in all these areas.

Ritesh Kumar

email: riteshkr.kmi@gmail.com

Ritesh Kumar has been working on pragmatics and automatic identification of politeness, impoliteness and aggression for over a decade. He has published papers related to these topics both in the top-tier pragmatics journals in the field as well as some of the most renowned computational linguistics conferences and workshops. He has delivered invited lectures and short tutorials / courses in some of the major universities and conferences across the globe. Currently he coordinates the postgraduate program in Computational Linguistics at Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India.