Juliane House received her first degree in English and Spanish translation and international law from Heidelberg University, Germany, her B.Ed., M.A. and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Toronto, Canada, and honorary doctorates from the Universities Jyväskylä, Finland and Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. She is Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at Hamburg University and a founding member of the German Science Foundation’s Research Centre on Multilingualism, where she was Principal Investigator of several projects on translation and multilingual business communication. She also directed a project on multilingualism and multiculturalism in German universities funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, and she is a former President of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS). She is an Ordinary Member of Academia Europaea, MAE and belongs to the 2% most widely quoted scholars according to the Stanford Index. At present, she is Director of the Doctoral program at Hellenic American University. Her research interests include contrastive pragmatics, discourse analysis, politeness, English as a lingua franca, intercultural communication, and translation. She published widely in all these areas. Her recent books include Cross-Cultural Pragmatics. (with D. Kadar, Cambridge University Press, 2021). Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse. (with W. Edmondson, D. Kadar, Cambridge University Press, 2023), Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Foreign Language Learning (with D. Kadar, Edinburgh University Press, 2024), Translation. The basics. 2d.ed. Routledge, 2024), Linguistics for Translators (with A. Almanna, Routledge, 2024), Language and Politics (with D. Kadar, Cambridge University Press, 2025).
