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).