Editorial Team

Dr of Science (Philology), Professor, Corresponding Member of NAS RA, Honoured Scientist of RA; holder of “Best Scientific Work” award of NAS RA (2010); holder of “Rated Researcher” award of RA State Committee of Science (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020); Head of Yerevan State University English Philology Department; Head of the Research Council for defence of PhD and Doctoral theses in the speciality 10-02-07 Romance and Germanic Languages (1995-2019); Scientific supervisor of the Project “Anti-Armenian Propaganda Discourse Studies”; Academic and Research Visiting Professor at Ca’Foscari University of Venice (2018, 2022). President of the Armenian Association for the Study of English (AASE); Board member of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).

Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich. He formerly served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2013–2017). His research focuses on historical pragmatics, politeness theory, speech act theory, and the history of English. His recent book publications include Politeness in the History of English: From the Middle Ages to the Present-Day (Cambridge University Press, 2020); The Pragmatics of Fiction: Literature, Stage and Screen Discourse (with Miriam Locher; Edinburgh University Press, 2021); Pragmatics of Space (co-edited with Heiko Hausendorf; De Gruyter, 2022); and Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, Spoken, Written (co-edited with Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown; Benjamins, 2023). From 2019 to 2024, he served as President of the European Society for the Study of English and is currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pragmatics.

Holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, UK, and serves as an Extraordinary Professor and former Head of Language Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. A National Research Foundation–rated researcher, he is an Executive Committee Member of English Scholars Beyond Borders and has been Chief Editor of the Journal of English as an International Language since 2011. With more than thirty-eight years of experience in foreign language education, he has taught English in India, Ethiopia, Thailand, Bahrain, Armenia, and the UAE before relocating to South Africa’s Western Cape, where he continues to contribute to international language education and research.

Doctor of Science (Philology), Professor Emerita of Lomonosov Moscow State University and a leading figure in language education and applied linguistics. She served as President of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies at Lomonosov MSU and has chaired Russia’s Foreign Language Teaching Council under the Ministry of Education since 1987. She is the founding President of both the National Association of Applied Linguistics and the National Association of Teachers of English in Russia, long affiliated with international organizations such as TESOL and IATEFL. Her achievements have been recognized with the Lomonosov Award, Fulbright’s 50th Anniversary Award, and honorary doctorates from the University of Birmingham and the State University of New York.