Collaborated in the HUMORACTION and GENHUMID projects
Jef Verschueren is head of linguistics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and a member of CeMIS (Centrum voor Migratie en Interculturele Studies/Centre for Migration in Intercultural Studies) and the Institute for Urban Studies. He is founder and general secretary of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) and director of the IPrA Research Center. His main interests are semantics, pragmatics, intercultural communication and the reflexive use of language in the public arena. His most outstanding works have been Understanding Pragmatics (1999) and Handbook of Pragmatics (1995).
