Days ago, a special issue (No. 3, 2017) of the ESCI-indexed Journal of Argumentation in Context titled “Argumentative Discourse in Contemporary China: A pragma-dialectical perspective” edited by Dean Assistant of the School of Foreign Languages & Chinese Secretary General of the ILIIAS was officially published by John Benjamins.
This issue collected 4 original research papers and 4 book reviews, which combine to display the latest achievements that have been made in Chinese pragma-dialectical studies and especially the breakthroughs in this particular field in China. The issue covers the Chinese pragma-dialectical discourses in fields like social politics, people’