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Project Director
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Barbara SeidlhoferBarbara Seidlhofer is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna and currently Head of Department of English Studies (University of Vienna). Her teaching and research focus is on discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and phonology, in particular in their application to language teacher education. Her publications include the books Pronunciation (with C. Dalton), Oxford University Press 1994; Approaches to Summarization: Discourse Analysis and Language Education, Tübingen: Narr 1995; Principle and Practice in Applied Linguistics, co-edited with G. Cook, Oxford University Press 1995; Language Policy and Language Education in Emerging Nations, co-edited with R. de Beaugrande and M. Grosman, Ablex 1998, Controversies in Applied Linguistics, Oxford University Press 2003, and Understanding English as a Lingua Franca, Oxford University Press 2011. She was editor of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Wiley Blackwell) from 2004 to 2008 and has recently founded the Journal of English as a Lingua Franca (De Gruyter Mouton), which she edits with Jennifer Jenkins and Anna Mauranen.Barbara Seidlhofer is the founding director of VOICE. email: barbara.seidlhofer@univie.ac.at |
topCurrent Researchers
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Ruth Osimk-TeasdaleRuth Osimk-Teasdale studied General and Applied Linguistics and English as well as German as a foreign language at the University of Vienna. She holds a CELTA diploma and has been teaching English and German as a foreign language in Austria and in the UK. Ruth has been working freelance for VOICE since June 2005 and joined the VOICE project as a researcher in June 2009.In her MA thesis, she approached the topic of intelligibility in ELF communication from a segmental point of view, testing the influence of aspiration as well as different realizations of the interdental fricative and /r/ on intelligibility with psycholinguistic methods. In the VOICE project, she was, among other areas, substantially involved in the the development of POS tagging guidelines for VOICE, and the release of VOICE POS XML and VOICE Online. Ruth is currently working on her PhD thesis, which is concerned with parts of speech in ELF and the challenges of POS tagging VOICE. email: ruth.osimk@univie.ac.at |
Associated Researchers
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Marie-Luise PitzlMarie-Luise Pitzl studied English and Communication Studies at the University of Vienna and New York University and completed her doctoral degree in English Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna in spring 2011. Her MA thesis (completed 2004, published 2010) had analyzed the interactional management and resolution of miscommunication in ELF business meetings. Her PhD thesis investigated creativity in English as a lingua franca with a special emphasis on the use of idioms and metaphors in ELF as represented in VOICE. She has published on a number of topics in relation to ELF such as lexical innovation, non-understanding, corpus building and the role of ELF in Europe (see publications and presentations). Marie-Luise joined the VOICE team as a transcriber and field researcher in December 2004 and worked as a full-time researcher for the VOICE project from June 2005 to August 2011. During this time, she was centrally involved in the compilation and creation of VOICE 1.0 (1.1) Online and XML. As of September 2011, Marie-Luise holds a position as a Lecturer/Research Associate in English Applied Linguistics and ELT at TU Dortmund University>, where she continues her work on ELF. She still collaborates with and supports the VOICE Team on a regular basis.email: marie-luise.pitzl@univie.ac.at |
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Stefan MajewskiStefan Majewski studied Electronics at Vienna University of Technology and English and Sociology at the University of Vienna. Before joining the VOICE project in June 2005, he worked as a freelance programmer at various projects featuring mostly database- and network-related development. He worked as an IT researcher for VOICE until August 2010. His special interest is the XML-representation of data, making it accessible for further research. In September 2011, he finished his MA thesis thesis entitled "Design and implementation of a research infrastructure for a corpus of spoken ELF". Stefan currently works at the Austrian Academy of Sciences but still collaborates with and works freelance for the VOICE Project.email: stefan.majewski@univie.ac.at |
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Nora DornNora Dorn studied English and Italian as well as German as a foreign language at the Universities of Vienna and Bologna. After her studies she taught German as a foreign language in Slovakia for a semester. Nora started working with VOICE in 2009 when she wrote her MA thesis which investigates the use of the progressive in English as a lingua franca. Between September 2011 and August 2012, Nora Dorn worked as an assistant to Barbara Seidlhofer at the English Department of Vienna University. During this time she supported the VOICE team in the final stages of the part-of-speech tagging process. She is interested in the field of ELF and teaching. |
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Leopold LippertLeopold Lippert holds an MA in English and American Studies from the University of Vienna (2009) and is currently working at the Department of American Studies at the University of Graz. He has been working for the VOICE project since late 2005 and was involved in data gathering, transcription, various transcription check-up stages, the anonymization of audio files and manual part-of-speech tagging. |