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MAandPhDdegreesfromJawaharlalNehruUniversity.Hismainresearch
interestsencompasscriticaldiscourseanalysis,issuesconcerningminoritylan-
guagesandlanguageendangerment.Heiscurrentlyworkingontworesearch
projects:“SocialandCulturalPracticesofInternallyDisplacedPopulationsin
MultilingualSpaces”and“DocumentationofEndangeredLanguages-Birhor
andChinali.”
GudrunHeldisAssociateProfessorattheDepartmentofRomanceLanguages,
UniversityofSalzburg.ApartfromteachingItalianandFrenchlinguisticsand
historyofRomancelanguages,herresearchinterestsfocusonpragmatics,com-
municationandinteractiontheory,mediatextologyandadvertisinglanguage.
Moreparticularly,shepublishedaseriesofarticlesandamonographonlin-
guisticpolitenessinFrenchandItalian(VerbaleHöflichkeit,Tübingen1995).
MarcinKuczokisAssistantProfessorattheInstituteofEnglish,Universityof
Silesia,Poland,wherehegraduatedwithanMAinEnglishPhilology(2005)
andaPhDinEnglishLinguistics(2012).HealsoreceivedanMAdegreein
theologyfromtheUniversityofOpole(2003).Hisacademicinterestsrevolve
aroundcognitivesemantics,especiallythetheoryofconceptualmetaphorand
metonymyandthetheoryofconceptualblending,aswellastheirapplications
tostudyingreligiouslanguage,describingtheaxiologicalparameteroflan-
guage,andanalysingEnglishandPolishword-formationprocesses.
MariaSifianouisProfessorattheFacultyofEnglishStudies,Universityof
Athens.HerpublicationsincludePolitenessphenomenainEnglandandGreece:
Across-culturalperspective(OxfordUniversityPress,1992/1999/2002),Dis-
courseanalysis(HillsidePress,2006)andanumberofarticlesineditedbooks
andjournals.Sheco-edited,amongother,suchbooksasThemesinGreeklin-
guistics(JohnBenjamins,1994)andLinguisticpolitenessacrossboundaries:
ThecaseofGreekandTurkish(JohnBenjamins,2001).Sheisontheeditorial
boardofanumberofjournalsandaco-editoroftheinternationalJournalof
LanguageAggressionandConflict(JohnBenjamins).Hermainresearchinter-
estsincludepolitenessphenomenaanddiscourseanalysisinanintercultural
perspective.
MariaSpiechowiczisLecturerintheJapaneselanguageattheInstituteof
English,UniversityofSilesia.Herresearchinterestsincludemethodologyof
Japaneselanguageteaching,Japanesekeywordsandsociolinguistics.
MagdalenaVargaisLecturerintheHindilanguageattheDepartmentof
LanguagesandCulturesofIndiaandSouthAsia,InstituteofOrientalStudies,
JagiellonianUniversityinKraków,Poland.Hermainacademicinterestsfocus