Barbara Seidlhofer

Barbara Seidlhofer is an Austrian applied linguist and professor (retired) of English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna. She is regarded as one of the founding figures of the research field of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and is the founding director of the Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE), the first general corpus of spoken ELF. In 2021 she received the Wilhelm Hartel Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in recognition of her life's work. Provided by Wikipedia