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Richard Alexander

Professor Alexander has been Full Professor of English for economics and business at our Institute since 1994. He was born in Leicester, England, and has an MA in modern languages and linguistics from Cambridge University as well as a degree in economics from the University of London. He also has qualifications in English as a Foreign Language from the Institute of Education, London University. He has taught and researched English as a foreign language, business English and linguistics for over forty years at several colleges and universities around Europe, first in Valkeakoski, Finland, then Milan, Italy. He has held academic appointments at German universities and colleges in Aachen, Bremen, Oldenburg, Marburg, Osnabrück and Trier. In the 1980s he worked at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published widely in European journals on lexis, phraseology, verbal humour, business English, language and ecology and applied linguistics.

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