Esther Serwaah Afreh
is a senior lecturer in English at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. She holds a PhD for the University of Ghana, Legon. Her research has been in the syntax, semantics and in cognitive semantics, and has been pursuing an interest in conceptual metaphors.
Christian Bär
holds a PhD in German Linguistics (University of Bremen) with a focus on discourse linguistics. He was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main, where he completed an interdisciplinary project on writing about music. His research explores the intersections of language, experience, and the limits of expression. He is currently developing a metaphorological approach to everyday aesthetic and ethical categories, based on the concept of figurative knowledge. He is research coordinator of the Research Training Group “Contradiction Studies” at the University of Bremen, funded by the German Research Foundation.
Lara Herford
is a PhD-candidate and research assistant in German Linguistics (University of Bremen). In her dissertation, she explores argument culture in times of democratic crisis, drawing on both metapragmatic and discourse-linguistic perspectives. Her research interests include discourse linguistics, metapragmatics, language ideology, communicative genres, language use in political movements, and the study of public disagreement. Furthermore, she is a fellow of the Research Training Group “Contradiction Studies” at the University of Bremen, funded by the German Research Foundation.
Pascal Hohaus
is a lecturer at Leibniz University Hannover. His dissertation Subordinating Modalities: A Quantitative Analysis of Syntactically Dependent Modal Verb Constructions (J. B. Metzler, 2020) applies construction grammar to the use of modal verbs in subordinate clauses. He co-edited Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions: Categories, Co-text, and Context (John Benjamins, 2020) and The Future of Teacher Education: Innovations across Pedagogies, Technologies and Societies (Brill, 2023). He is also the editor of Science Communication in Times of Crisis (John Benjamins, 2022) and The Language of Digital Education (Brill, 2025).
is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of English Linguistics at Leibniz University Hannover. She completed her doctoral studies in 2024 and currently holds the title Doctor designatus. Her research interests include pragmatics, politeness research, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition.
Anna Kuzio
is the Chair of the International Medical Interpreters Association (IMIA) for Eastern Europe. Her research focuses on medical translation and interpreting, with particular interest in intercultural communication and the dynamics of interpreter-mediated healthcare. She is actively involved in international collaborations aimed at advancing standards and training in medical interpreting across multilingual and multicultural contexts.
Emmanuel Kyei
is a lecturer at the Department of English Education, Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development (AAMUSTED), Ghana. He teaches courses in linguistics, academic writing, and creative writing. His research interests include discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, semantics, English grammar, and the intersections of language, education, and social transformation. His recent work focuses on media discourse and conflict resolution in Ghana. He is also involved in curriculum development and teacher education, with a commitment to promoting critical thinking, peace education, and effective communication in academic and community settings.
Anurag Mittal
is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He holds an MA in Linguistics and a BA (Honours) in History from the University of Delhi, New Delhi. His research focuses on case and agreement patterns in Brajbhasha. His academic interests include morphology, language typology, discourse analysis, language documentation, and cognitive linguistics. He has presented his work at national and international conferences and has served as a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses at the Centre for Linguistics, JNU. He is a recipient of the UGC’s Junior Research Fellowship (2023).
Iira Rautiainen
is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Teacher Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, funded by the Kone Foundation. She is also affiliated
Inmaculada Sanchis-Vidal
is a Spanish philologist, a teacher of Spanish as a foreign language (ELE), and a PhD student in Specific Didactics, specializing in language and literature education at the University of Valencia. Her main research interest focuses on the study of language in relation to democratic coexistence.
Mithilesh Kumar Singh
studied Japanese Studies, holding a PhD from the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, where he also completed his MPhil in Japanese Studies. His academic background includes an MA in Conflict Management and Development from the UNESCO Chair at the Malaviya Centre for Peace and Research and a BA (Honours) in Economics from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He has contributed to scholarly literature, including a chapter titled, “From Civilisational to Strategic Partnership: Walking the Road” in India-Japan Relations @70: Building Beyond the Bilateral (KW Publications, 2022).
Violeta Stojičić
is a professor of linguistics and EFL at the University of Niš, Serbia. She is the Editor in Chief of the journal Facta Universitatis Series: Language and Literature and Book Review Editor in the Journal of Language and Discrimination. She is a visiting professor at the University of Applied Sciences, Ventspils, Latvia. Her linguistic interests include Systemic Functional Linguistics and Discourse analysis.
Collin Syfert
is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at Fitchburg State University, United States. His research focuses on interconnections between the rhetoric of science and political communication concerning the environment.
is a PhD-candidate and research assistant in German Linguistics (University of Bremen). For his dissertation, he conducted an ethnographic field study of 50 queer Christian church services across Germany and analyzed them from the perspective of discourse linguistics and the linguistics of religion. Furthermore, he is a former fellow of the Research Training Group “Contradiction Studies” at the University of Bremen, funded by the German Research Foundation.
Daniela Wawra
is Professor of English Language and Culture at the University of Passau, Germany. She primarily works in the fields of sociolinguistics and comparative linguistic and cultural studies, with a focus on (intercultural) media, political, and business communication. One specific area of her research is the study of Public Relations within these contexts.