EDUCATION
2006 Ph.D. in Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Specialisation in Chinese sociolinguistics and intercultural politeness
(2002–2006)
2002 M.A. in East Asian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Specialisation in Chinese linguistics (1997–2002)
LANGUAGES
Hungarian (native), English (excellent), Chinese (excellent), Japanese
(excellent)
AREAS OF RESEARCH
socio-pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics and historical pragmatics,
linguistic politeness research, sociolinguistics, East Asian studies (with
focus on Chinese, Japanese and Okinawan language studies), language on
the internet, cultural anthropology, gender and language, epistolary
cultures, and contrastive rhetoric
AWARDS

2010 March
ACADEMY AWARD FOR YOUNG OUTSTANDING SCHOLARS, HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES
The Award’s details were published in the Official Journal of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2010) LIX/4, p. 122
<http://www.akademiai.com/content/c43241p212866073/fulltext.pdf
?page=1>
EDITORIAL & BOARD POSITIONS
Since 2010: Series Editor (with Enikő Németh T. and Károly Bibok),
Pragmatic Interfaces series, LONDON, EQUINOX
Since 2009: Editorial Board Member, Journal of Chinese Language and
Discourse, AMSTERDAM & PHILADELPHIA, JOHN BENJAMINS
ASSOCIATIONS
1. International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
2. Linguistic Politeness Research Group (LPRG)
3. European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)
4. European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL)
GRANTS
1. August 2008–July 2011
Director of the long-term research project The Collapse and Birth of
Linguistics Politeness Systems: Research of the Late Nineteenth and
Early Twentieth Century Chinese Politeness supported by the Chiang
Ching Kuo Foundation, Taiwan, and hosted by the Research Institute
for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2. September 2007–July 2008
Co-director (with Huba Bartos) of the project Discourse and
Impoliteness supported by the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, Taiwan,
and hosted by the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
3. September 2006–August 2007
Co-director (with Huba Bartos) of the project Discourse and Politeness
supported by the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, Taiwan, and hosted by
the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences
4. March 2006 – June 2006
Grantee of the Publication Grant of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation to
publish the monograph Terms of (Im)Politeness – A Study of the
Communicational Properties of Traditional Chinese (Im)polite Terms of
Address. Budapest: Department of East Asian Studies, Eötvös Loránd
University Press
5. September 2005–August 2006
Co-director (with Huba Bartos) the project The politeness of Chinese
officials – A Study of Addressing Deviancies in Pre-modern Chinese
Official Discourse supported by supported by the Chiang Ching Kuo
Foundation, Taiwan, and hosted by the Research Institute for
Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
6. November 2005
Research and conference participation in Hua-lien, Taiwan, supported
by the Dong-hwa University, Taiwan
7. September 2004 – August 2005
Co-director (with Huba Bartos) of the project A Pragmatic Analysis of
the Polite Self-denigration System of the Vernacular Chinese Language
supported by the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, Taiwan, and hosted by
the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences
PROFESSIONAL INTERNATIONAL COURSES (SCHOLARSHIPS)
1. 1998–1999
Participant, Chinese Language and Culture Faculty, Zhejiang University,
Hangzhou, China (grant provided by the Ministry of Education, China,
and the Ministry of Education, Hungary)
2. Summer 2002
Participant, Course for Foreign Chinese Language Teachers, Beijing
Normal University (grant provided by the Ministry of Education, China,
and the Ministry of Education, Hungary)
3. Summer 2004
Participant, Japanese Language Course for Graduate Students and
Researchers, Osaka, Kansai (scholarship provided by the Japan
Foundation)
Lecturing at foreign universities
2009 January
Invited lecturer, Department of Chinese, School of Humanities, The
National University of Singapore.
2008 July
Invited lecturer, Department of Linguistics, School of Humanities,
The University of Hong Kong.
2007 August
Invited lecturer, Linguistics Program, School of Social Sciences,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
2007 April
Invited lecturer, Graduate School of Chinese Studies, Centre of
Language Studies, Kanagawa University, Japan.
ORGANISING ACTIVITIES
1. Co-organiser (with Xinren Chen) of the panel “Chinese Identity in
Interaction”, 12th Conferences of the International Pragmatics
Association, July 2011, Manchaster
2. Co-organiser (invited international organising committee member, with
Şükriye Ruhi and Çiler Hatipoğlu) of the “6th International Conference
of the Linguistic Politeness Research Group”, 2011, Ankara, hosted by
Middle East Technical University
3. Co-organiser (with Michael Haugh and Sara Mills) of the “Discursive
Pragmatics Symposium”, June 2011, Sheffield Hallam University
4. Co-organiser (with Yuling Pan) of the panel “Chinese Discourse and
Interaction”, 11th Conference of the International Pragmatics
Association, July 2009, Melbourne
5. Co-organiser (with Yuling Pan) of the Special Invited Panel “Chinese
Face and (Im)Politeness”, Colloquium on Face and (Im)Politeness, July
2009, Brisbane, hosted by the Griffith University
6. Organiser of the colloquium “Polite Practices of the Past: Historical
Perspectives of Linguistics (Im)Politeness”, May 4, 2009 Budapest,
Hosted by the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences
7. Co-organiser (with Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini and Huba Bartos) of
the “4th International Symposium of the Linguistic Politeness Research
Group: East meets West”, July 2008, Budapest, hosted by the Research
Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
8. Co-organiser (with Jonathan Culpeper) of the panel “Historical
(Im)Politeness Research”, 4th International Symposium of the Linguistic
Politeness Research Group “East meets West”, July 2008, Budapest
9. Co-organiser (with Hao Sun) of the panel “Chinese Institutional
Discourse(s)”, 10th Conference of the International Pragmatics
Association, July 2007, Göteborg
10. Co-organiser (with Huba Bartos) of the “4th Conference of the
European Association of Chinese Linguistics (EACL)”, hosted by the
Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences