Cornelia Ilie - Biography#

Cornelia Ilie is Professor of Linguistics and Rhetoric at Strömstad Academy, Sweden, Visiting Professor at Hellenic American University, Athens, Greece, and Professor Emerita at Swami Vivekananda University, Kolkata, India. Previously she was Professor at Örebro University and Malmö University, Sweden. She was research fellow at Lancaster University, UK and research scholar at U.C. Berkeley, US, and held visiting professorships at universities in Austria, Finland, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain, and the UK.

Prof. Ilie is Founder and President of ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue) (https://www.estidia.eu), whose aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in transgressing traditional disciplinary boundaries to explore, through dialogue-based perspectives, the interrelatedness of languages and cultures in various contexts.

She is Consultation Board Member of International Pragmatics Association (IPrA): https://pragmatics.international and Member of the ESF College of Experts https://www.esf.org

Prof. Ilie has been appointed for the second time (2023-2027) External Examiner for the MSc degree ‘Intercultural Communication for Business and the Professions’, University of Warwick, UK.

She is Associate Editor of Horizon Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences Research (JHSSR), and member of the Editorial board of several international refereed journals on language and discourse studies (e.g. Argumentation in Context; Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict; Mots: Les langages du politique; Forum for Linguistic Studies).

Her research, which is internationally anchored and largely interdisciplinary, spans five main areas: institutional and organisational discourse analysis, political and parliamentary discourse practices, intercultural communication, dialogue argumentation and rhetoric, and gender in communities of practice. She has published extensively on media discourse genres, academic writing genres, political discourse patterns, argumentation and rhetoric of parliamentary debate strategies, gender and (im)politeness in parliamentary discourse practices. Currently, she is in the process of editing a volume entitled Discourses of War and Peace: 21st Century Perspectives (forthcoming at John Benjamins). Her ongoing research is focused on a study on argumentation strategies underlying manipulative and counter-manipulative discourses, which is due to be published in a forthcoming Handbook of Dissensus over Liberal Democracy in Europe.

In addition to numerous book chapters, refereed journal and encyclopedia articles, Prof. Ilie’s publications include books on topical research issues like the following: European Parliaments under Scrutiny: Discourse Strategies and Interaction Practices (J Benjamins 2010); Evolving Genres in Web-mediated Communication (Peter Lang 2012); The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction (3 vol, Wiley-Blackwell 2015); Challenging Leadership Stereotypes through Discourse: Power, Management and Gender (Springer 2017); Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (J Benjamins 2017); Teaching Business Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan 2018); Pragmatics and Its Interfaces (J Benjamins 2018); Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures (J Benjamins 2021); Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and Counter-Manipulation in Times of Crisis (J Benjamins 2024).

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