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  1. Interveners’ performance of “identity work” in the context of Chinese bystander intervention

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, September 2024, John Benjamins

    Xinren Chen

  2. Review of Yus (2022): Smartphone Communication. Interactions in the App Ecosystem

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, March 2023, John Benjamins

    Xinren Chen

  3. A Morpho-Pragmatic Study of Roman Alphabetic Initialisms (RAI s) on Chinese and Japanese Social Media

    Article • Contrastive Pragmatics, February 2023, Brill

    Xinren Chen

  4. “Let’s … together”

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), January 2023, John Benjamins

    Xinren Chen

  5. The performance and relational role of toast intervention in Chinese dining contexts

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, November 2022, John Benjamins

    Xinren Chen

  6. ‘Suiran danshi’

    Article • Chinese Language and Discourse An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, March 2022, John Benjamins

    Xinren Chen, Ruixin Cheng

  7. Identity (self-)deconstruction in Chinese police’s civil conflict mediation

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), June 2020, John Benjamins

    Xinren Chen, Wenjing Feng

  8. Kinship term generalization in contemporary Chinese academic settings

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, December 2019, John Benjamins

    Xinren Chen, Juanjuan Ren

  9. Doing Power Threatening Acts (PTAs) in ancient China

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, June 2019, John Benjamins

    Xinren Chen

  10. ‘Family-culture’ and Chinese politeness

    Article • Acta Linguistica Academica, June 2019, Akademiai Kiado

    Xinren Chen

  11. Extensions of the Chinese passive construction: A memetic account

    Article • East Asian Pragmatics, April 2017, Equinox Publishing

    Xinren Chen

  12. Editorial

    Article • East Asian Pragmatics, January 2016, Equinox Publishing

    Professor Jef Verschueren, Xinren Chen