Introduction

Authors

  • Jiayi Wang University of Central Lancashire
  • Nicola Halenko University of Central Lancashire

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/eap.38206

Keywords:

East Asian pragmatics, L2, Chinese, Japanese

Author Biographies

  • Jiayi Wang, University of Central Lancashire

    Jiayi Wang is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Jiayi earned a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Warwick. Her current research interests include pragmatics, corpus-assisted discourse analysis and language education. Prior to her PhD, she was an international project manager at the Chinese Ministry of Justice. She has published research articles on comparative law, intercultural pragmatics, and foreign- and second-language education. Her recent publications include Jiayi Wang & Charlotte Taylor, ‘The Conventionalisation of Mock Politeness in Chinese and British Online Forums', Journal of Pragmatics (2019).

  • Nicola Halenko, University of Central Lancashire

    Nicola Halenko is a Senior Lecturer in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at the University of Central Lancashire. She has been involved in English language teaching for over twenty years and has worked in Japan, China, and Europe as a teacher, teacher-trainer, and researcher. Her main research interests are connected to second-language pragmatics, intercultural communication, and teacher training, and she has publications in all of these areas. She currently has a monograph on Teaching Pragmatics currently in preparation.

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Published

2019-04-30

How to Cite

Wang, J., & Halenko, N. (2019). Introduction. East Asian Pragmatics, 4(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1558/eap.38206