Biography - Lakić Igor

Dr Igor Lakić is a Full Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Montenegro. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, at the Department of English Language and Literature. He took his MA and PhD degrees at the same institution. He had speicalisations at the University of Cambridge and the Caledonian University in Glasgow. His research interests include discourse analysis, genre analysis, English syntax, sociolinguistics and ELT. He has published two monographs: Genre Analysis: ESP Discourse and Discourse, Media, War, both published by the University of Montenegro, as well as chapters in several international and national monographs. Igor Lakić is also one of the co-editors of the monograph Academic Discourse Across Cultures published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing and the author of one chapter in the monograph. He has also published the textbook English Phonetics and Phonology. He has editied a number of monographs and conference proceedings. He has published numerous papers in national and international journals and presented at more than 80 international and national conferences. He is a supervisor for MA and PhD theses. He is active in the field of consecutive and simultaneous interpreting. He was the Dean of the Institute of Foreign Languages (now Faculty of Philology) of the University of Montenegro from 2004 to 2012 and founder of the translation and interpreting study programme at the Institute. He is dean of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Montenegro. He was a member of the Council for General Education of Montenegro and a member of the Council for Codification of the Montenegrin Language. He is the President of the Society of Applied Linguistics of Montenegro and the Association of Conference Interpreters of Montenegro. He is also a member of the Committee of Experts for Regional or Minority Languages in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.