English for Specific Purposes and Humour

Shaeda Isani works in English for specific purposes (ESP) teaching and research. She created the first research centre in France devoted to multilingual studies in the language, discourse and culture of specialised communities. Her main research interest lies in English for legal purposes, and, in 2011, she contributed a chapter in this field to the edited volume Researching Specialized Languages, which was awarded the triannual Enrique Alcaraz Prize for best publication in the field of ESP in English, German, Spanish, French or Portuguese. She has also published in the areas of the specialised languages of oenology, journalism and the “sin industries”.Michel Van der Yeught is currently Professor Emeritus at Aix-Marseille University, France. He works in English for specific purposes (ESP) teaching and research, and his main scientific interests focus on financial English and on theorising the study of specialised languages. He has published widely on the English of the stock market, writing the first history of Wall Street in French (Une histoire de Wall Street, 2009). From 2013 to 2019, he was president of GERAS, the leading learned society for ESP in France.