Joybrato Mukherjee holds the Chair of English linguistics at Justus Liebig University Giessen (Germany). His research interests include applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, intonation, stylistics and syntax. He is the author of "Form and Function of Parasyntactic Presentation Structures: A Corpus-based Study of Talk Units in Spoken English" (Rodopi, 2001) and "Korpuslinguistik und Englischunterricht: Eine Einfuhrung" ( Corpus Linguistics and English Language Teaching: An Introduction; Peter Lang, 2002)."