MartinWeisser obtained his MA in English Linguistics, English Literature, andGalloroman Philology from the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, in 1994, andhis PhD in English Linguistics in 2001. In 2010, he completed his professorialthesis (habilitation) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

His main interests are in thecorpus-based analysis of English, with a special emphasis on pragmatics, aswell as most other aspects of spoken and written language, including thecreation of web-based teaching materials for teaching linguistics.