journal of linguistic studies

CONTRIBUTORS’ BIO DATA
Azamat AKBAROV has a PhD from the Hanyang University (Seoul) in English Linguistics. He
has a BA in English Philology and an MA in English Language and Literature. He is currently
working as an Assistant Professor at the International Burch University in Sarajevo (Bosnia and
Herzegovina). His teaching and teacher-training experience of over 10 years spans Uzbekistan,
South Korea, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has presented at numerous international
conferences and his research interests include linguistics, cognitive grammar, cross-linguistic
features of SLA, TESL, discourse analysis, and bilingualism.
Astrid-Simone GROSZLER has an MA in Linguistics, Political Sciences and Marketing
Management granted by the University of the West in Timisoara (Romania). A PhD student at the
moment, she is a qualified EFL teacher and has been teaching languages for over 3 years. Her
experience includes both English and German practical courses and ESP courses, having already
published in these areas. She understands the practical issues involved in teaching and learning
different languages and transferring research ideas from one language to another. She has also
worked as an interpreter for German, English and Dutch.
Julia HARRISON has a PhD in English Language studies from Nottingham University (UK) and
is also a qualified EFL teacher. She has experience of the theoretical and practical issues
associated with building language corpora having worked on several corpus-building projects.
Before coming to Cambridge to work as corpus manager, she coordinated a Franco-British project
which investigated the assistantship teaching programme from a linguistic perspective. She has
also co-authored 2 papers in the field of discourse analysis.
Igor IVANOVIĆ, a PhD student in Linguistics, graduated from the Philosophical Faculty in Nikšić
(Montenegro). His MA thesis deals with lexical contacts which occur between English and
Montenegrin in the field of computer terminology. He works at the Institute of Foreign Languages
in Podgorica (Montenegro) as an ESP lecturer and as a Vice-dean. Additionally, he teaches ESP at
other faculties and schools: Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of
Law, School of Management, etc. His PhD thesis deals with Corpus and Computer Linguistics. He
also works as a freelance translator for different companies and ministries. Igor Ivanović is a
member of the Association of Applied Linguistics of Montenegro. His papers on ESP and Corpus
Linguistics have been presented and published at different national and international conferences.
Ljubica KORDIĆ has a PhD in Linguistics (branch: Germanistics) granted by the Faculty of
Philosophy of the University in Zagreb (Croatia). She is a qualified EFL and GFL teacher and
since 1994 she has been lecturing English for Legal Purposes and German for Legal Purposes at
the Faculty of Law of the University Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek (Croatia). She is also a
guest-professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek, lecturing three specialist courses at the
Department for Translatology: Language and Translation of German Legal Texts, Types of GL
Genres in the Field of Law, and Translation of Documents in Judiciary. Her special scientific
interest is in the field of applied linguistics and legal linguistics, and she has published 30
scientific papers in the field. Between 2005 and 2009, she was a coordinator for the region
Slawonia and Baranya of the international Tempus project Foreign Languages in the Field of Law,
and a researcher in three projects financed by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education: two
at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb – Teaching and Learning German as FL in Croatia and
German and Croatian in Contact – Didactic and Psycho-linguistic aspects – and one at the
Faculty of Law in Zagreb – Legal and Linguistic Aspects of Multilingualism. She participated in
several international conferences and is an active member of several professional associations in
Croatia and in Europe: the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society (HDPL), Kroatischer
Deutschlehrerverband (KDV), European Linguistic Association (ELA), etc.
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