Juliane House is Professor Emerita at University of Hamburg, Germany, Distinguished Professor at Hellenic American University Nashua, USA, and Visiting Professor at Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics, Dalian University and Beijing University of Science and Technology. She received Honorary Doctorates from Jyväskylä, Finland and Jaume I, Castello, Spain. Her research interests include cross-cultural pragmatics, discourse analysis, politeness research, translation theory and the study of English as a lingua franca.