The Polyphony of English Studies

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