Plenary Speakers

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Ines-A. Busch-Lauer

Ines-A. Busch-Lauer is Professor of English/ Communication at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau (UAS Zwickau, Germany) and draws on more than 25 years of experience in LSP research and teaching at various institutions and in several domains. She is the head of the LSP department at the Faculty of Applied Languages and Intercultural Communication. In her current role, she designs the curricula and modules for the LSP programmes both in English and German for business and engineering LSP courses. Her research interests include: LSP text analysis, Genre Analysis, Contrastive Rhetorics, LSP Teaching Methodology. Moreover, her interest is in the role of AI tools in teaching and learning foreign languages. She has published widely and has been an editor of the book series Studien zu Fach, Sprache und Kulturen published at Frank & Timme (Berlin) and a co-editor of the journal Fachsprache. Journal of Professional and Scientific Communication.

Prof. Dres. h.c. mult. Ludwig M. Eichinger

Ludwig M. Eichinger was Director of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS, Mannheim) and held a chair for German Linguistics at the University of Mannheim until his retirement in 2018. From 2019 onward he has been Guest Professor at the German Department of the University of Ostrava. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include variational and text linguistics and in this context, he dealt, among other things, with characteristics of professional interaction.

Prof. Dr. Ilka Mindt

Ilka Mindt is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Paderborn University, Germany. She has published books on English intonation and on “that” clauses followed by adjectives. Her research interests include the interface of syntax and semantics in Modern English. Her current work focuses on English linguistics and its relevance in teacher training at university. She has also published extensively on the inverted/flipped classroom and its application to English linguistics. She was the coordinator of the project “Authentic Englishes.nrw”, which aimed to produce digital teaching and learning materials of varieties of Englishes and to make them available as open educational resources (OER). The project ran from 2020-2023 and was funded by the “Digitale Hochschule NRW”. She is also interested in mobile media within the school context as well as the use of artificial intelligence in university teaching.

Prof. Dr. habil. Joanna Szczęk

Prof. Dr. habil. Joanna Szczęk has held the Chair of Applied Linguistics at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Wrocław since 2013. She studied the German language and literature at the University of Wrocław, completing her doctorate (2004) and habilitation (2015) at the same university. She was awarded the title of professor in 2022. Her research areas are phraseology, text linguistics, pragmalinguistics, German as a foreign language and contrastive linguistics.

Norbert Richard Wolf, Dr. phil., Dr.h.c.mult., Professor em.

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Guest Professor University of Ostrava and Silesian University at Opava.

1961-1966 Studies of German Philology, English Philology, Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Innsbruck, 1966 Dr. phil., 1974 Habilitation in the German Language and Early German Literature, 1976 Extraordinary Professor at the University of Innsbruck, 1977 Full Professor of German Linguistics at Würzburg University.

Visiting professorships: Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas, USA; Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy; Università di Napoli Orientale, Italy; Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy; Umeå University, Sweden; University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Nanjing University, P. R. China; State University of Samara, Russia; University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Fellow of the Asem Duo Foundation, South Korea.

He has been a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2002. Between 2002-2006 he was a Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim. Between 2005-2016 he was a member of the Council of German Orthography. His research areas are: History of the German language, grammar (especially syntax and text linguistics), dialectology, corpus linguistics.

Updated: 24. 10. 2024