Rong Chen is Professor at Dalian University of Foreign Languages and Professor Emeritus at California State University, San Bernardino. He has published more than sixty articles in pragmatics, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics, phonology, semantics, and stylistics. He has authored, edited, and translated seven books, including English Inversions (2003, de Gruyter) and Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics (2022, de Gruyter).