Monika Kirner-Ludwig and HyeYeon Kim

Monika Kirner-Ludwig is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and research-affiliated with the University at Albany (SUNY, USA). She holds a venia docendi and a PhD in English Linguistics from the Universities of Innsbruck (2023) and Munich (2013). Her research foci lie within Intercultural Pragmatics, the Pragmatics of Quoting, Humor Pragmatics and Telecinematic Stylistics. Recent publications appear in Corpus Pragmatics (2023), The European Journal of Humour Research, the Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics (2022) and the Handbook of Language and Pop Culture (forthcoming). She is co-editor of the Routledge book series ‘New Waves in Pragmatics’. 

HyeYeon Kim is a lecturer at Sookmyung Women’s University (South Korea) teaching Korean as a second language and Korean studies as a foreign language. She received her PhD (2020) in Curriculum and Instruction department, specializing in Intercultural Pragmatics, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning and Teaching from SUNY at Albany (USA). She worked as a lecturer of Korean language at Stanford University (2019-2021). Her research topics are cross-cultural linguistics and pragmatics of formulaic speech, conversation analysis to discourse in intercultural context, L2 exposure effect on L1 at conceptual/lexical level, learners’ pragmatics (e.g.,  figurative expressions), learning effects of using AI.