Structure, Use, and Meaning Brașov

Jo Angouri is full professor at the University of Warwick, UK. She is currently the Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Internationalisation at the University of Warwick and works in close partnership with academic departments, Warwick's International Students' Office, Student mobility and the Students' Union. She has been appointed as the International Subject Chair for Linguistics, Language, Communication and Media on the Scopus board. Since she has been fascinated by language and how people use language to 'do things', Jo started her journey as a theoretical linguist interested primarily in syntax. Later, she turned to sociolinguistics and pragmatics. After five rewarding years in Bristol, she joined the University of Warwick and the Centre for Applied Linguistics. Jo has been a visiting scholar in different institutions in New Zealand, Australia and Europe. She is the founding editor of the Multilingual Matters' Language at Work series and she is also co-editing Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture for John Benjamins.

Marion Grein  is an accomplished linguist with a background in comparative linguistics (English, German, Japanese) and specialistion in the teaching of adults with a main focus on German as a foreign/second language and neurodidactics, combining foreign language didactics with research in the field of the brain. She has published widely, with a range of publications on the theory and practice of language teaching in school and adult education. Currently, she is doing research within the field of virtual teaching - hybrid language teaching.