Prof. Daniel Z. Kadar is an internationally leading expert of pragmatics. He is Research Professor at the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. He is Ordinary Member of Academia Europaea – the European Academy of Sciences – and he holds a British higher doctorate (Doctor of Letters) in pragmatics. In the Research Centre, he is affiliated with the Institute of Language Technology and Applied Linguistics where he leads the Interaction Ritual Research Group. He is one of the Editors of Contrastive Pragmatics (Brill), one of the Section Rditors (pragmatics) of Wiley Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, and one of the Editors of the Edinburgh Studies if Pragmatics. He is board member of various internationally leading journals, such as Journal of Pragmatics. He has published various monographs with Cambridge University Press and other outstanding publishers, as well as many journal articles in D1 and Q1 journals, such as Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics and System. His latest books are Cross-Cultural Pragmatics (with Juliane House, Cambridge University Press, 2021), Ritual and Language (Cambridge University Press, 2023), Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse (with Willis Edmondson and Juliane House, Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning (with Juliane House, Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

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2026

Daniel Kadar. Learning the ins and outs of Chinese language rituals can open doors to intercultural understanding (article published in China Daily)

Shi Wenrui, Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House, Liu Fengguang. Unsolicited advice in mediatised Chinese New Year celebrations: An interaction ritual approach

Shi Wenrui, Dániel Z. Kádár. Ostensible ritual aggression in Chinese Xiangqi games

2025

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar, Tadej Todorović, Matjaz Klemencic, David Hazemali, Tomaž Onič, Katja Plemenitas. Capturing power in diplomatic language use: The case of a closed-door mediatory negotiation and its aftermath during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia

Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár. Speech acts and interaction in second language pragmatics: A position aper

Dan Han, Juliane House, Liu Fengguang, Dániel Z. Kádár. Complaining in historical Chinese criminal trials

2024

Jiejun Chen, Juliane House, Daniel Kadar. “Chinese “”face””-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts A historical contrastive pragmatic inquiry”

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar, He Cang. Analysing sympathy from a contrastive pragmatic angle: a Chinese–English case study

He Cang, Juliane House, Fengguang Liu, Dániel Z. Kádár. Sympathising with patients in historical China: an interaction ritual approach

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar, Fengguang Liu, Jihong Zhao. On the Problematic Use of ‘don’t worry’ by Chinese Learners of English

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House, Tadej Todorović, Tomaž Onič, David Hazemali, Katja Plemenitas, Donathan Brown. The language of diplomatic mediation -A case study of an emergency meeting in the wake of the Yugoslav wars

Shiyu Liu, Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár. Bargaining in Chinese livestream sales events

Shi Wenrui, Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House, Liu Fengguang. How to close a telephone call in Chinese – A problem for foreigners

2023

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar. Studying Small Talk from a pragmatic angle: An introduction

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House, Keiko Todo, Tingting Xiao. Revisiting the binary view of honorifics in politeness research

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House, Hao Liu. Beyond the deferential view of the Chinese V pronoun nin ?

Dániel Z. Kádár, Gudrun Held, Annick Paternoster. Introduction: Politeness in and across Historical Europe

Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár, Fengguang Liu, Wenrui Shi. Historical language use in Europe from a contrastive pragmatic perspective: An exploratory case study of letter closings

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar. An interactional approach to speech acts for applied linguistics

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar, Fengguang Liu, Dan Han. The problem of translating Chinese policy-related expressions: a case study of wenming (‘civilised’)

Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár. A new critique of the binary first- and second-order distinction in politeness research

Liu Fengguang, Shi Wenrui, Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House. Criticising as a disciplinary action: A problem for learners of Chinese as a foreign language?

Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár, Liu Fengguang, Liu Shiyu. Greeting in English as a Foreign Language: A Problem for Speakers of Chinese

Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár. Learning Chinese as a foreign language: An introduction

Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár. Learning Chinese in a study abroad context: The case of ritual congratulating

Dániel Z. Kádár. Review of Chor (2018): Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form, Function, and Grammaticalization

Zongfeng Xia, Liu Fengguang, Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House. Ritual Small Talk in Chinese

Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár, Laura Simoes. Small Talk in English and Chinese – A contrastive case study

2022

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar, Ákos Apatóczky. Tegezés és magázás a globális kommunikációs gyakorlatban: Esettanulmány különböző nyelvkultúrák IKEA-katalógusai alapján (2. rész)

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House, Fengguang Liu, Lin Jiao. Self-denigration in Chinese: An interactional speech act approach

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House. Aggression and its (de)escalation in mediatised rites of aggression

Lin Jiao, Fengguang Liu, Daniel Kadar. 仪式规程-言语行为视角下英…视辩论节目中的面子威胁研究 焦琳

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar, Fengguang Liu, Yulong Song. Aggression in diplomatic notes – a pragmatic analysis of a Chinese-American conflict in times of colonisation

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar. Political Language in Contrast: An Introduction

Jiejun Chen, Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House. ‘Face’-related expressions in the Minnan Dialect of Chinese

Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár. Analysing phatic interaction through speech acts – A discussion note

Dániel Z. Kádár, Annick Paternoster. Historicity in metapragmatics – a study on ‘discernment’ in Italian metadiscourse

Michael Haugh, Dániel Z. Kádár, Rosina Márquez Reiter. Offence and morality: Pragmatic perspectives

Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár. Research Report: Cross-cultural Pragmatics

Dániel Z. Kádár. The role of ideology in evaluations of (in)appropriate behaviour in student-teacher relationships in China

Juliane House, Dániel Z. Kádár. Research Report: Cross-cultural Pragmatics (Sapientia)

2021

Jiejun Chen, Daniel Z. Kadar. 互动仪式视角互动仪式视角下的语码转换研究——以闽南语-普通话为例

Daniel Kadar. Book Review: Andreas Jucker – Politeness in the History of English

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar. Altered speech act indication: A contrastive pragmatic study of English and Chinese Thank and Greet expressions

Krícia Barreto, Juliane House, Daniel Kadar. On the Theory of Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions: a conversation with Juliane House and Daniel Kádár, discussing Goffman’s ideas

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar, Fengguang Liu, Bi Zhuo. Altered speech act indication: A problem for foreign language learners?

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House. Ritual frames and mimesis: Analysing military training in Chinese universities

Juliane House, Victor Leontyev, Daniel Kadar. Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions (An Academic Conversation). Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2. Yazykoznanie

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House. Interaction Ritual and (Im)Politeness

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar. German and Japanese war crime apologies: A contrastive pragmatic study

Daniel Kadar, Vahid Parvaresh, Rosina Marquez Reiter. Alternative Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness: An Introduction

D. Z. Kádár, Juliane House. Politeness Markers’ Revisited – A Contrastive Pragmatic Perspective

Liu Fengguang, Dan Han, Juliane House, Daniel Kadar. The expressions ‘(M)minzu-zhuyi’ and ‘Nationalism’: A contrastive pragmatic analysis *

Rong Chen, Juliane House, Daniel Kadar. Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions: An Interview with Juliane House and Dániel Z. Kádár

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House, Liu Fengguang, Yulong Song. Admonishing A paradoxical pragmatic behaviour in ancient China

Andrea Szalai, Daniel Kadar. A vendéglátás interakciós rítusa roma közösségekben

2020

Juliane House, Daniel Kadar. Evaluating the appropriacy of Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions (RFIEs): A case study of learners of Chinese and English

Daniel Kadar, Ling Zhou. Self-Denigration in 21st Century Chinese

Daniel Kadar, Liu Fengguang, Juliane House, Wenrui Shi. Reporting ritual political advice in the Chinese state media: A study of the National People’s Congress

Daniel Kadar, Liu Fengguang, Juliane House. (Im)Politeness and Chinese political discourse – An introduction

Daniel Kadar. Reporting Ritual Political Advice in The Chinese State Media: A Study of The National People’s Congress

Z Dániel, Daniel Kadar. ( 汉语) 语言礼貌研究方法论纲 Approaches to ( Chinese) Linguistic Politeness

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House. Revisiting the duality of convention and ritual: A contrastive pragmatic inquiry

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House. T V pronouns in global communication practices The case of IKEA catalogues across linguacultures Elsevier Enhanced Reader

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House. John Benjamins Publishing Company The pragmatics of ritual An introduction

Rosina Marquez Reiter, Daniel Kadar. Sociality and moral conflicts

Yongping Ran, Linsen Zhao, Daniel Kadar. The rite of reintegrative shaming in Chinese public dispute mediation

Puyu Ning, Daniel Z. Kadar, R Chen. Evaluation of Explanation in Interaction

Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House. The pragmatics of ritual: An introduction

2019

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House. Ritual frame and ‘politeness markers’

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House. Ritual frames A contrastive pragmatic approach

Peter Bull, Anita Fetzer, Daniel Kadar. Calling Mr Speaker ‘Mr Speaker’: The strategic use of ritual references to the Speaker of the UK House of Commons

Daniel Kadar, Andrea Szalai. The socialisation of interactional rituals: A case study of ritual cursing as a form of teasing in Romani

Daniel Kadar, Sen Zhang. Alignment, ‘politeness’ and implicitness in Chinese political discourse: A case study of the 2018 vaccine scandal

Daniel Kadar. Relational Ritual Politeness and Self-display in Historical Chinese Letters

Daniel Kadar, Puyu Ning. Ritual public humiliation: Using pragmatics to model language aggression

Daniel Kadar. Introduction: Advancing linguistic politeness theory by using Chinese data

Daniel Kadar, Juliane House. Revisiting speech acts from the perspective of ritual: A discussion note

Daniel Kadar, Sen Zhang. (Im)politeness and alignment: A case study of public political monologues

2018

Daniel Kadar. The meta-conventionalisation and moral order of e-practices: A Japanese case study

Cheng-Tuan Li, Yongping Ran, Daniel Kadar. Constructing self-expert identity via other-identity negation in Chinese televised debating discourse

2017

Elizabeth Marsden, Daniel Kadar. The pragmatics of mimesis: A case study of intercultural email communication

Sadam Issa. A study into politeness strategies and politeness markers in Jordanian print advertisements as persuasive tools

2016

Ling Zhou, Daniel Kadar. ????面子研究的传承与嬗变

Dániel Z. Kádár, Siân Robinson Davies. Ritual, aggression, and participatory ambiguity: A case study of heckling

Dániel Z. Kádár, Melvin De La Cruz. Rituals of outspokenness and verbal conflict

2015

Michael Haugh, Wei-Lin Chang, Daniel Kadar. “Doing deference”: Identities and relational practices in Chinese online discussion boards

Daniel Kadar, Yongping Ran. Ritual in intercultural contact: A metapragmatic case study of heckling

Daniel Z. Kadar. Identity Formation in Ritual Interaction

2014

Daniel Kadar. Heckling — A mimetic-interpersonal perspective

2013

Michael Haugh, Daniel Kadar, Sara Mills. Interpersonal pragmatics: Issues and debates

Daniel Kadar, Sara Mills. Rethinking Discernment

2012

Daniel Kadar, Keith Roe. Chinese ‘face’ and im/politeness: An introduction

2011

Daniel Kadar. Historical Chinese politeness and rhetoric. A case study of epistolary refusals

2007

Yuling Pan, Dániel Z. Kádár. Historical vs. contemporary Chinese linguistic politeness

2006

Dániel Z. Kádár. On historical Chinese apology and its strategic application

Daniel Kadar. On Historical Chinese Vocative Shifts – A Discourse Analytic Study

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Dániel Z. Kádár, Liu Fengguang. Terms of address in Chinese: An introduction