Dániel Z. Kádár

List of John Benjamins publications for which Dániel Z. Kádár plays a role.

Journal

Politeness in and across Historical Europe

Edited by Annick Paternoster, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 (2023) vi, 216 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

The Pragmatics of Ritual

Edited by Dániel Z. Kádár and Juliane House

Special issue of Pragmatics 30:1 (2020) v, 168 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Morality and language aggression

Edited by Dániel Z. Kádár and Vahid Parvaresh

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7:1 (2019) v, 132 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Subjects Historical linguistics | Pragmatics

Institutional Politeness in (South) East Asia

Edited by Francesca Bargiela and Dániel Z. Kádár

Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 21:1 (2011) vi, 158 pp.
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Altaic languages | Communication Studies

Understanding Historical (Im)Politeness

Edited by Marcel Bax and Dániel Z. Kádár

Special issue of Journal of Historical Pragmatics 12:1/2 (2011) vi, 313 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Historical linguistics | Pragmatics
This paper presents a historical contrastive pragmatic study of the use of Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts. The rationale behind this investigation is that contemporary Mandarin and the Minnan Dialect operate with very different inventories of… read more
House, Juliane, Dániel Z. Kádár, Tadej Todorovic, Matjaž Klemencic, David Hazemali, Tomaž Onic and Katja Plemenitaš 2024 Capturing power in diplomatic language use: The case of a closed-door mediatory negotiation and its aftermath during the breakup of the former YugoslaviaJournal of Language and Politics: Online-First Articles | Article
In this study we capture power dynamics in diplomacy from a pragmatic angle, by examining a closed-door diplomatic mediatory negotiation and its aftermath. We first analyse the transcript of a mediation session between representatives of Slovenia and Croatia and a European Economic Community… read more
House, Juliane, Dániel Z. Kádár, Fengguang Liu and Wenrui Shi 2023 Historical language use in Europe from a contrastive pragmatic perspective: An exploratory case study of letter closingsPoliteness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 143–159 | Article
This paper presents a case study which brings together the fields of contrastive pragmatics and historical pragmatics. Specifically, we contrastively investigate the ways in which the speech act set of “farewell” – representing the closing phase of an interaction – was realised in… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z., Gudrun Held and Annick Paternoster 2023 Introduction: Politeness in and across Historical EuropePoliteness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Introduction
Kádár, Dániel Z., Juliane House and Hao Liu 2023 Beyond the deferential view of the Chinese V pronoun nin Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
In this paper, we revisit the long-held assumption that the Chinese second-person V pronoun nin 您 is an essentially ‘deferential’ pronoun. We examine uses of nin in settings where disagreement occurs and where conventionally the T pronoun ni would be preferred. Our research follows a… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z. 2022 Historical politenessHandbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 719–743 | Chapter
Márquez Reiter, Rosina and Dániel Z. Kádár 2022 Sociality and moral conflicts: Migrant stories of relational vulnerabilityPragmatics and Society 13:1, pp. 1–21 | Article
This paper explores how understandings of sociality influence the way members of two different social groups discursively animate moral conflicts. It examines how moral conflicts are constructed in life-story interviews by Chinese and Latin American migrants as they reflect on patterns of… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z. 2021 Review of Jucker (2020): Politeness in the History of English – From the Middle Ages to the Present DayPolymedia in Interaction, Androutsopoulos, Jannis (ed.), pp. 865–869 | Review
Kádár, Dániel Z., Juliane House, Fengguang Liu and Yulong Song 2021 Admonishing: A paradoxical pragmatic behaviour in ancient ChinaPragmatics 31:2, pp. 173–197 | Article
This paper examines the pragmatic properties of what we define as a ritual act of ‘admonishing’. We argue that admonishing represents a historically embedded realisation type of the speech act Suggest. We explore admonishing in ancient Chinese political and governance texts dated before the 2nd… read more
Bull, Peter, Anita Fetzer and Dániel Z. Kádár 2020 Calling Mr Speaker ‘Mr Speaker’: The strategic use of ritual references to the Speaker of the UK House of CommonsThe Pragmatics of Ritual, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 64–87 | Article
Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) in the UK House of Commons is a ritual event, governed by a cluster of conventions. Members of Parliament (MPs) must address their remarks to the Prime Minister (PM) through the medium of the Speaker of the House, who is responsible for maintaining order during… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z. and Andrea Szalai 2020 The socialisation of interactional rituals: A case study of ritual cursing as a form of teasing in RomaniThe Pragmatics of Ritual, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 15–39 | Article
The present paper examines the ways in which ritual cursing operates as a form of teasing in (Gabor) Roma communities. By ‘ritual cursing’ we mean forms of curse that are believed to cause harm to the cursed person or people related to them, i.e. cursing studied here differs from swearing and… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z. and Juliane House 2020 The pragmatics of ritual: An introductionThe Pragmatics of Ritual, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
This introductory position paper aims to familiarise the reader with the pragmatics of ritual and previous research in this field. Ritual is a complex pragmatic phenomenon present in many types of interaction, and it has been subject to academic inquiries in various disciplines. We will draw on… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z. and Juliane House 2020 Ritual frames: A contrastive pragmatic approachThe Pragmatics of Ritual, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 142–168 | Article
Our study provides a corpus-based contrastive pragmatic investigation of the expressions please in English and qing 请 in Chinese. We define such expressions as ‘ritual frame indicating expressions’ (henceforth RFIEs) and argue that RFIEs are deployed in settings where it is important to… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z. and Saeko Fukushima 2020 The meta-conventionalisation and moral order of e-practices: A Japanese case study(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 149–173 | Chapter
This study overviews the phenomenon of the meta-conventionalisation of interpersonal practices in the context of computer-mediated communication. The term ‘meta-conventionalisation’ refers to the coding of the conventional interpersonal practices of a particular group, or various groups, in the… read more
Ran, Yongping, Linsen Zhao and Dániel Z. Kádár 2020 The rite of reintegrative shaming in Chinese public dispute mediationThe Pragmatics of Ritual, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Juliane House (eds.), pp. 40–63 | Article
This paper examines the ways in which mediators deploy the rite of public shaming in the activity type of public mediation, as a pragmatic device by means of which they exert social control. Our data consists of episodes of public mediation events in rural China, aired in the Chinese Television.… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z. and Juliane House 2019 Ritual frame and ‘politeness markers’Pragmatics and Society 10:4, pp. 639–647 | Miscellaneous
Kádár, Dániel Z. and Kim Ridealgh 2019 IntroductionExploring (im)politeness in ancient languages, Ridealgh, Kim (ed.), pp. 169–185 | Introduction
This paper aims to examine the ways in which official Chinese written monologues implicitly trigger alignment with the public in the wake of national social crises. Our understanding of alignment encompasses the attitude of creating an authoritative line of discourse, which in turn triggers the… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z., Vahid Parvaresh and Puyu Ning 2019 Morality, moral order, and language conflict and aggression: A position paperMorality and language aggression, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Vahid Parvaresh (eds.), pp. 6–31 | Article
In this position paper, we provide an overview of what we regard as the most important features of the relationship between the moral order and morality in the context of language conflict and aggression. While in previous pragmatic research the concepts of morality and moral order have been… read more
Parvaresh, Vahid and Dániel Z. Kádár 2019 Morality and language aggressionMorality and language aggression, Kádár, Dániel Z. and Vahid Parvaresh (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Introduction
Kádár, Dániel Z. and Saeko Fukushima 2018 The meta-conventionalisation and moral order of e-practices: A Japanese case study(Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 352–378 | Article
This paper overviews the phenomenon of the meta-conventionalisation of interpersonal practices in the context of computer-mediated communication. The term ‘meta-conventionalisation’ refers to the coding of the conventional interpersonal practices of a particular group, or various groups, in the… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z. 2017 Chapter 8. Indirect ritual offence: A study on elusive impolitenessImplicitness: From lexis to discourse, Cap, Piotr and Marta Dynel (eds.), pp. 177–200 | Chapter
The present chapter examines the phenomenon of indirect ritual offence, which includes cases of recurrent offences that are indirect and as such make it difficult for the targeted person to respond to them. Manifestations of indirect ritual offence include a series of indirect attacks that… read more
In this paper I examine Chinese perceptions of (in)appropriateness and offence from a cross-cultural pragmatic point of view, by exploring (in)appropriate evaluations in the context of a major social offence, and the influence of Confucian ideology on people’s evaluative tendencies. By doing so,… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z. and Melvin de la Cruz 2016 Rituals of outspokenness and verbal conflictPragmatics and Society 7:2, pp. 265–290 | Article
This study examines rituals of outspokenness, by analysing cases drawn from the US hidden camera show, Primetime: What Would You Do? Studying ritualistic behaviour in cases when bystanders become side participants as they stand up for victims of abuse fills a knowledge gap in pragmatics. A further… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z. and Siân Robinson Davies 2016 Ritual, aggression, and participatory ambiguity: A case study of hecklingJournal of Language Aggression and Conflict 4:2, pp. 202–233 | Article
This paper analyses the phenomenon of participatory ambiguity in aggressive ritualistic interactions. One can ‘participate’ (Goffman 1979, 1981) in an interaction in different statuses, and these statuses entail different interactional constraints and obligations, also within the realms of language… read more
Haugh, Michael, Wei-Lin Melody Chang and Dániel Z. Kádár 2015 “Doing deference”: Identities and relational practices in Chinese online discussion boardsRelational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora, Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn (eds.), pp. 73–98 | Article
In this paper we examine a key relational practice found in interactions in online discussion boards in Mainland China and Taiwan: ‘doing deference’. In drawing attention to a relational practice that has received attention in quite different research traditions, namely, linguistic pragmatics and… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z. and Annick Paternoster 2015 Historicity in metapragmatics – a study on ‘discernment’ in Italian metadiscoursePragmatics 25:3, pp. 369–391 | Article
The present paper contributes to meta pragmatics, by examining the question of how historicity influences the validity of certain modern meta terms that are accepted as ‘neutral’ and ‘scientific’ in pragmatics. We argue that it is fundamental to explore the history and development of such meta… read more
The present paper aims to model the interactional operation of heckling, which has received little attention in impoliteness and interaction studies, despite the fact that studying this phenomenon has various advantages for the analyst. In order to fill this knowledge gap, I approach heckling by… read more
Kádár, Dániel Z. 2013 Historical politenessHandbook of Pragmatics: 2013 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–34 | Article
Kádár, Dániel Z. 2012 Relational ritualHandbook of Pragmatics: 2012 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 1–40 | Article
This paper investigates the use of the word ‘face’ in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Turkish and Chinese so as to trace the meaning of the concept in the two languages and cultures. The study describes the occurrence of the lexeme in five semantic/pragmatic domains in novels dating… read more
Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár 2011 The historical understanding of historical (im)politeness: Introductory notesUnderstanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
Kádár, Dániel Z. and Francesca Bargiela 2011 Institutional politeness in (South) East Asia: An introductionInstitutional Politeness in (South) East Asia, Bargiela, Francesca and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Article
Ruhi, Şükriye and Dániel Z. Kádár 2011 ‘Face’ across historical cultures: A comparative study of Turkish and ChineseUnderstanding Historical (Im)Politeness, Bax, Marcel and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 25–48 | Article
This paper investigates the use of the word ‘face’ in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Turkish and Chinese so as to trace the meaning of the concept in the two languages and cultures. The study describes the occurrence of the lexeme in five semantic/pragmatic domains in novels dating… read more