Lingua Francas as Second Languages
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Christiane Meierkord is a senior lecturer in English and Applied Linguistics at the University of Erfurt in Germany. She was awarded a Ph.D. in English Linguistics from the University of Düsseldorf in 1996 for a dissertation on non-native/non-native communication in English. Since then, she has extensively published on English as an international lingua franca, addressing the topic both from a descriptive and an applied perspective. Meierkord is co-editor of Lingua Franca Communication and of Rethinking Sequentiality, which she edited together with Anita Fetzer. She has also researched discourse organization from a psycholinguistic point of view. In this context, she is completing a book project that brings together linguistic, social, and cognitive aspects of the negotiation of conventions for recurrent discourse strategies. Meierkord coordinates a research project founded by the VolkswagenStiftung, which investigates the uses of English as a lingua franca in South Africa. The project describes the different forms which the language assumes and links these to issues of identity construction in contemporary South African society.