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"""House and K d r have done an incredible job in presenting this refreshing text linking cross-cultural pragmatics and foreign language learning. Rich in ideas and examples, it will appeal to students and instructors on a range of language, linguistics and education courses."" -Li Wei, Director and Dean, UCL Institute of Education"

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Hamburg UniversityJuliane House, University of Hamburg, received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Toronto, Canada, and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Jyv skyl , Finland, and Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Hamburg, Germany, where she was a founding member of the Research Centre on Multilingualism. She is currently a Professor at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. She is also Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program of Language and Communication at Hellenic American University, Nashua, USA, and Athens, Greece. She is Visiting Professor at Dalian University of Foreign Languages and Beijing University of Science and Technology, China. Juliane is Past President of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies.Her research interests include cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis, (im)politeness, L2 pragmatics, language and politics, translation theory, and English as a global lingua franca. She has published widely in all these areas. She was co-editor of the ground-breaking volume Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies (1989). Some of her recent books include Translation Quality Assessment: Past and Present (2015), Translation as Communication across Languages and Cultures (2016), Translation: The Basics (2018) and Cross-Cultural Pragmatics (with D niel K d r, 2021). She is co-editor of Cross-cultural pragmatics A Cross-Disciplinary Journal.D niel Z. K d r is Qihang Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Pragmatic Research at Dalian University of Foreign Languages, China. He is also Research Professor at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary and Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Maribor. He is an ordinary member of Academia Europaea (MAE.), and he also has a higher doctorate (D.Litt.) in pragmatics (2015) and Ph.D. in linguistics (2006).His areas of research involve cross-cultural, intercultural and L2 pragmatics; linguistic (im)politeness and interactional ritual; language and politics; and historical and modern Chinese language. He has published many books with internationally leading publishers, and research papers in high-impact journals. He is author of Relational Rituals and Communication: Ritual Interaction in Groups (2013), Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction (2017), and co-author of Understanding Politeness (with Michael Haugh, 2013) and Intercultural Politeness Managing Relationships across Cultures (with Helen Spencer-Oatey, 2020). His most recent book is Cross-Cultural Pragmatics (with Juliane House, 2021). He is co-editor of Cross-cultural pragmatics A Cross-Disciplinary Journal.

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