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This volume, in honor of Allan James, collects a range of articles from different domains of English studies as a token of Allan James's academic interests and his integrative approach to the field. The contributions in linguistics encompass a spectrum of topics including world Englishes, professional discourse, language acquisition, collocation, translation, and multilingualism. Cultural aspects in language teaching and in literary analysis enrich the reading and hint at Allan James' Welsh and Celtic roots while also going beyond that.

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Produktbeschreibung
This volume, in honor of Allan James, collects a range of articles from different domains of English studies as a token of Allan James's academic interests and his integrative approach to the field. The contributions in linguistics encompass a spectrum of topics including world Englishes, professional discourse, language acquisition, collocation, translation, and multilingualism. Cultural aspects in language teaching and in literary analysis enrich the reading and hint at Allan James' Welsh and Celtic roots while also going beyond that.
Autorenporträt
Alexander Onysko is Full Professor in English linguistics at Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt (Austria). He held a previous appointment as Associate Professor of English linguistics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy). Before that, he was senior researcher at the European Academy Bolzano (EURAC) and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck. As visiting professor, he taught at the Universities of Hamburg, Bochum, and Gothenburg. His research interests and publications are in the areas of language contact, bi/multilingualism, cognitive linguistics, and world Englishes. Part of his current work focuses on bilingualism in Maori and English following extended research stays at the Faculty of Maori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato (New Zealand). Eva-Maria Graf is Associated Professor in Applied Linguistics and English Linguistics at Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt (Austria). She received her PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, where she worked as an assistant professor. She also worked at the university of St. Gallen and is currently associated with the Züricher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaft (ZHAW).Her research interests and publications are in the areas of applied linguistics with a focus on helping professions, in particular coaching and psychotherapy, gender ideologies in language and social interaction and queer linguistics. Together with two colleagues she launched the first academic journal on coaching research in the German speaking market. In a more recent project, together with colleagues from psychology and German linguistics, she investigates into forms and functions of questions in coaching from an interdisciplinary perspective. Univ.Prof. Dr. Werner Delanoy lehrt Fachdidaktik, Literaturwissenschaft und Culture Studies an der Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt. Guenther Sigott is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Klagenfurt. He has worked as a teacher and translator for general and specific purpose French and English and has taught a large range of university language courses, semantics, lexicology, text linguistics, discourse analysis, historical linguistics, research methodology and language testing. He has also worked as a teacher trainer and acted as a consultant to large-scale national test development projects for English, German and the Classical Languages. His publication focus is on C-test research and language test validation in general. He is co-editor, together with Rüdiger Grotjahn and Claudia Harsch, of the international book series Language Testing and Evaluation published by Peter Lang. His research interests are in all areas of Applied Linguistics and particularly in Language Testing and Evaluation. Nikola Dobric is Assistant Professor (Post-Doc Assistant) in English linguistics at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt in Austria. He holds a doctorate in English linguistics from the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt. His current research focuses on the use of learner corpora in investigating different issues of language testing (such as test validation and writing scales). He has published in the fields of corpus linguistics, applied linguistics, semantics, lexicography, and sociolinguistics. He is the Chief Editor of the philological journal Colloquium and is also invested in promoting more open access to research.