Anatol Stefanowitsch is Professor of English Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on the quantitative, corpus-based analysis of English and other languages from a cognitive-linguistic perspective. His main interest is the interaction of lexis with grammatical constructions, linguistic and conceptual metaphors, and text. He is also a well-known public educator about language, writing and speaking about topics like linguistic purism, linguistic discrimination and language ideologies.