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Xinren Chen is Professor of English and Linguistics in the School of Foreign Studies at Nanjing University, China and is co-founder and editor of East Asian Pragmatics. He has published papers in pragmatics and foreign language teaching in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Society, Journal of Historical Pragmatics, English for Academic Purposes, Acta Linguistica, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Modern Foreign Languages, and Contemporary Linguistics. The major monographs he authors or co-authors include Contemporary Pragmatics, English Grammar in Use, The Pragmatics of Overinformativeness in Conversation, Critical Pragmatic Studies on Chinese Public Discourse, Politeness across Chinese Genres, Pragmatic Identity: How to Do Things with Words of Identity, and Pragmatics and Foreign Language Teaching.