Keynote speakers

[in alphabetical order]

Susan Hunston Susan Hunston (University of Birmingham)
Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has previously taught at Mindanao State University, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Surrey. She specialises in corpus linguistics and discourse analysis and has published over 50 articles on the expression of stance or evaluation, especially in academic prose, on the use of corpora to describe the grammar and lexis of English, and on the interface between corpus and discourse studies. She is author of Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and evaluative language (2011/Routledge) and of Corpora in Applied Linguistics (2002/CUP). She is co-author of Pattern Grammar: a corpus-driven approach to the lexical grammar of English (2000/Benjamins) and co-editor of Evaluation in Text: authorial stance and the construction of discourse (2000/OUP) and System and Corpus: exploring the connections (2005/Equinox). Professor Hunston was elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences in 2010 and was awarded an OBE for services to Applied Linguistics in 2017.
Anna Mauranen Anna Mauranen (University of Helsinki)
Anna Mauranen is Professor and Research Director, and a former Vice-President at the University of Helsinki. Her research and publications include ELF, academic discourses, corpus linguistics, translation studies, and most recently modelling spoken language. She is editor of Applied Linguistics and formerly a founding editor of the Journal of English as a Lingua Franca. She has led several funded research projects, currently the largest being “Chunking in language: units of meaning and processing”. Many others have been concerned with corpora, changing English, and spoken and written ELF: above all the ELFA project and corpus (English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings), and the written WrELFA corpus. Recent monographs: Exploring ELF: Academic English shaped by non-native speakers (2012, C.U.P); Linear Unit Grammar (with Sinclair 2006, John Benjamins). Recent co-edited books: Language Change: The Impact of English as a Lingua Franca (2019, C.U.P) Linguistic diversity in the EMI Campus (2019, Routledge) Changing English. Global and local perspectives (2017, John Benjamins).
Antonio Moreno-Sandoval Antonio Moreno-Sandoval (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Antonio Moreno-Sandoval (BA 1986, MA 1988, PhD 1991, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, UAM) is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Computational Linguistics Lab at UAM, and Director of the UAM-IIC Chair in Computational Linguistics. He is a former Fulbright postdoc scholar at the Computer Science Dept., New York University (1991-1992) and a former DAAD scholar at Augsburg Universität (1998). His training in Computational Linguistics began as a research assistant in the Eurotra Machine Translation Project (EU FP-2) and then at IBM Scientific Center in Madrid (1989-1990). He was the principal researcher of the Spanish team in the C-ORAL-ROM Project (EU FP-5). He has managed over 15 projects (national, regional-funded) as well as industry contracts. Since 2010 he is Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento (IIC-UAM) in the Social Business Analytics group. Moreno-Sandoval has supervised 12 theses to completion. He is author or co-author of 4 books and over 80 scientific papers.