Academic Service

Co-editor, book series Language and Social Life (DeGruyter, since 2014)

Editorial Board, Language in Society (Cambridge, since 2017)

Editorial Board, Text&Talk (De Gruyter, since 2022)

Editorial Board, Critical Discourse Studies (Taylor & Francis, since 2013)

Editorial Board, Visual Communication (Sage, since 2018)

Editorial Board, Discourse, Context and Media (Elsevier, since 2011)

Editorial Board, Linguistic Landscape (John Benjamins, since 2018)

Editorial Board, Language and Sexuality (John Benjamins, since 2017)

Editorial board, Sociolinguistic Studies (Equinox, since 2015)

Editorial Board, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (Taylor & Francis, since 2007)

Editorial Board, Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture (University of Latvia, since 2021)

Editorial Board, Language@Internet (Independent, since 2008)

Editorial Board RASAL Lingüística (Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Lingüísticos, since 2017)

International Advisory Board, Language and Intercultural Communication (Taylor & Francis, since 2010)

Scientific Committee, Language et société (Cairn.info, since 2021)

Scientific Committee, Revista Estudios del Discurso Digital (Universidad de Valladolid, since 2017)

 

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS

Advisory Board, Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden

 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING

Co-organizer, Listening to Africa: Englishes in the Global South, conference of the Swiss Association of University Teachers of English (SAUTE), University of Bern, 06-07 June, 2025.

Convenor, Language Work in the Movies, University of Bern, 09-10 November, 2023.

Convenor, The Art of Language round table, University of Bern, 06-09 July, 2022.

Convenor, 10th Linguistic Landscape Workshop conference, University of Bern, 02-04 May, 2018.

Co-convenor and co-host, Visualizing (in) the New Media conference, University of Neuchâtel, 08-10 November, 2017.

Convenor, Elite Discourse: Language, Class and the Politics of “Studying Up” symposium,  University of Bern, 06-07 April, 2016.

Convenor, Wordsmiths – Take 2 symposium, University of Bern, 18-19 January, 2016.

Convenor, 3rd Language in the Media conference, University of Washington, 03-06 September, 2009.

Co-organizer, 3rd Conference of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication, Johannes Kepler University, Austria, 06-08 December, 2002.

Co-organizer, 7th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Cardiff University, UK, 30 June-04 July, 2000.