em.o.Univ.Prof. Dr. Richard John Alexander

Activities

Activities per year 1976 1983 1988 1989 1990 1992 1993 1995 1997 1998 2001 2002 2003 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010

• 106 Science to science
• 4 Membership in Association/Society/Network
• 2 Organisation of conference/workshop/congress
• 1 Journal article peer-review
• 1 More
  • 1 University self-administration, Cooperation manager

Activities per year

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• Framing Discourse on the Environment. A Critical Discourse Approach

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  6 May 2010 → 8 May 2010

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Content Matters in ESP

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Nov 2009

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• On the effects of global languages of science on local practices of ‘doing science’

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Nov 2009

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• ‘If money isn’t loosened up, this sucker could go down.’ How people in high places talk about financial crises

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Nov 2009

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• 7. Workshop 'Interkulturelle Kommunikation und Interkulturelles Lernen', 12.-14.6.2009, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

  Alexander, R. J. (Organiser)

  2009

  Activity: Event participation/organisation › Organisation of conference/workshop/congress

• Second WU Symposium on International Business Communication. Linguistic Approaches to Intercultural Business Communication, 11-12/6/2009, Vienna University of Economics and Business

  Alexander, R. J. (Organiser)

  2009

  Activity: Event participation/organisation › Organisation of conference/workshop/congress

• The case for English as a lingua franca in academia: Agentive or Instrumental?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Nov 2008

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Globalization, Englishization in Europe, English in Academia: the end of cultural, scholarly and linguistic diversity?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Nov 2008

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Some phraseological issues in teaching English for business purposes in the German-speaking world

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2007

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• When LSP met CEF

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2007

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• A phraseological take on ‘freedom’ in a globalizing world

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2007

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Does englishization (aka ‘internationalization’) spell the end of European linguistic diversity in research and teaching at universities?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2007

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Is the use of English in science and scholarship a way of interpreting the world or is it contributing to changing the world?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  24 Nov 2006

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• The Council of Europe’s Framework of Reference for Languages and higher education language syllabuses

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Nov 2006

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• ‘International’ programmes in the German-speaking world and englishization: A critical analysis

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Nov 2006

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Language and content integration in European HE: Can documents like the Common European Framework of Reference help?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Nov 2006

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Can Can-Dos do anything to improve tertiary level ESP curricula?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2005

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• 'Mortgage repayments' is more than a phrase: the cultural content of Business English phraseology

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2005

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Parallels and paradoxes in the englishized 'construction' of contemporary globalizing environmental discourse

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2005

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Language and content integration in ESP tests and examinations: dilemmas or solutions?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2005

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Does global communication inevitably imply 'englishization'?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2005

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Vienna University of Economics and Business (Organisational unit)

  Alexander, R. J. (Member)

  2004 → 2005

  Activity: Membership/function › University self-administration, Cooperation manager

• Englishization in Europe in teh (dis-)service of people or profit?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2004

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Is englishization reconfiguring or disfiguring the linguistic landscape of Europe?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2004

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Environmental Issues, Third World Agriculture and Multinationals: Who Pays the Price?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2003

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Teaching and learning via or through the medium of a foreign language: Can it be said to inhibit or enhance learning?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2003

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Wirtschaftliche Kurrikula und der gemeinsame europäische Referenzrahmen

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2003

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• How effectively and operationally proficient are your students of business English at tertiary level?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2003

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Procedures of, and future prospects for, teaching assessment at one Austrian university

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2002

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Wording the world: The 2000 BBC Reith Lectures as an index of ecological progress or regression?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2002

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Shaping environmental discourse: The example of the 2000 BBC Reith Lectures

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2002

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• How 'worldly' can and should oral proficiency assessment in tertiary level Business English get?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2002

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Benchmarks for oral assessment of tertiary level content-based business English?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Jul 2001

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Concordancing and the Teaching of Vocabulary and Phraseology of Business English

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2001

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• G.lobal L.anguages O.ppress B.ut A.re L.iberating, too: the Dialectics of English

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2001

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Getting to there from here: What is the place of oral proficiency in tertiary level business English?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2001

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Four parameters or limiting factors in teaching English for occupational purposes

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2001

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Everyone is talking about 'sustainable development'. Can they all mean the same thing? Computer discourse analysis of ecological texts

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2000

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Business-rich business English programmes for business studies students?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  2000

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• An English professor’s perspective on the business of verbal humour and the humour of business

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Jul 1999

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Caught in a global English trap, or liberated by a lingua franca? Unravelling some aims, claims and dilemmas of the English teaching profession

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Jul 1998

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Ecological commitment in business: a computer-corpus-based critical discourse analysis

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Jul 1998

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Fixed expressions in learners’ dictionaries of English: spoilt for choice?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Jul 1998

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• International Society for Humor Studies (External organisation)

  Alexander, R. J. (Member)

  1998 → 2010

  Activity: Membership/function › Membership in Association/Society/Network

• Phraseology as a Frame for English Learning and Teaching

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Jul 1997

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Wahl und Zwang: Computer, Übersetzung und der/die Angewandte Sprachwissenschaftler/in

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Jul 1997

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Practice and principles of business English at tertiary level; or, doing the business without (much) experience?

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Jul 1997

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• The framing of ecology: some remarks on the relation between language and economics

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Jul 1997

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Content-based Business English Curricula: Retrospective reflections, current considerations and prospective proposals on English for business and academic purposes in European higher education

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Jul 1996

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science

• Introduction to the Symposium “Language and Ecology”: Past, Present and Future

  Alexander, R. J. (Speaker)

  1 Jul 1996

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Science to science