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Name:	Rong  Chen
Institution:	California State University, San Bernardino
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State and/or Country:	CA USA
Linguistic Field(s):	Discourse Analysis General Linguistics Historical Linguistics Linguistic Theories Morphology Philosophy of Language Pragmatics Psycholinguistics Semantics Sociolinguistics Syntax Text/Corpus Linguistics Typology Lexicography Writing Systems History of Linguistics Neurolinguistics Ling & Literature Cognitive Science Genetic Classification Language Acquisition
Specialty:	Cognitve linguistics, pragmatics
Subject Language(s):	Chinese, Mandarin Dutch English German Japanese Korean Latin Russian Spanish Thai Vietnamese
Selected Publications:	English Inversion: A Figure-before-Ground Construction. 2003, Mouton de Gruyter Cognitive Linguistics Bibliography, 2006, Co-Editor with Rene Dirven, Hans-Gorg Wolf, Yu Ning, and Birgit Smeija. Mouton de Gruyter. 'Self-Politeness: A Modest Proposal'. 2001. Journal of Pragmatics. 'Water metaphors and metonymies in Chinese: A semantic network'. 2008. Pragmatics and cognition. ''There'-existentials in English. Forthcoming in Motivation in Language, eds. Klaus-Ewe Panther and Gruenter Radden, John Benjamins. 'Compliment responses in Chinese: A longitudinal study.' Forthcoming in Handbook of Cross-cultural Pragmatics, Mouton de Gruyter. Pragmatics of the East and West: Same or different? Forthcoming in Handbooks of Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, Mouton de Gruyter.
Announced on LINGUIST :	English Inversion
Reviewed on LINGUIST :	English Inversion
Courses Taught:	Introduction to linguistics English Grammar Pragmatics Discourse analysis Syntax
Reviewer of:	Historical Ling/Syntax: Chappell (2003) (LL Issue 15.3241) Historical Ling/Syntax: Mazzon (2004) (LL Issue 16.709) Limiting the Iconic (LL Issue 20.1353)
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