Brigitta Busch works as a senior research fellow at the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Vienna University, Austria. She studied Slavistics and Communication at Klagenfurt University. She also worked from 1992? "2002 as an expert for the Council of Europe's Confidence Building Measures Programme in South-Eastern Europe. Her main research interests cover sociolinguistics (multilingualism in media and education), discourse analysis and intercultural communication.