ISTVAN KECSKES is Professor of Linguistics and Communication at the State University of New York, Albany, USA. His research focuses on pragmatics, second language acquisition and bilingualism. His latest publications include five books (Kecskes, I. & T. Papp. 2000, Foreign Language and Mother Tongue. Erlbaum; Kecskes, I. 2003, Situation-Bound Utterances in L1 and L2. Mouton; Kecskes, I. & L.Albertazzi. 2007. Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism. Springer; Kecskes, I. & L. Horn (eds.). 2007. Explorations in Pragmatics. Mouton; Kecskes, I. & J. Mey. (eds.) 2009. Intention, Common Ground and the Egocentric Speaker-Hearer. Mouton). In his latest publications he has been writing on a socio-cognitive approach to pragmatics that attempts to synthesize the “sociocultural-interactional” and “cognitive-philosophical” perspectives.
Professor Kecskes is the founding editor of the journal Intercultural Pragmatics and the Mouton Series in Pragmatics published by De Gruyter Mouton, as well as the bilingual (Chinese-English) journal CASLAR (Chinese as a Second Language Research). He sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier) Pragmatics & Society (Benjamins), International Journal of Multilingualism (Taylor & Francis), Intercultural English (Singapore) and the Journal of Foreign Languages (Waiguoyu) published in China. He is also on the editorial board of four book series: Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology (Springer), Series in Pragmatics (Cambridge Scholarly Publishing), Pragmatic Interfaces (Equinox), and Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok (Hungarian Academy of Sciences).