Li-Chi Lee Chen received his PhD in Linguistics from the Department of Pragmatics at the University of Lód, Poland, in 2016. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland. He has published internationally in various linguistics journals, including The Journal of Chinese Sociolinguistics, The Journal of National Taiwan Normal University: Linguistics and Literature, Lodz Papers in Pragmatics and Concentric: Studies in Linguistics. His research interests lie in discourse analysis, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, particularly in the fields of linguistics of humor, language and gender, language and culture, non-verbal communication and comics studies. He also has an interest in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.