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Besondere Forschungsgebiete: German language; Sociolinguistics (esp. of German); Language and politics

Monographien: (with J.S. Barbour) Variation in German. A critical approach to German sociolinguistics (1990). German version: Soziolinguistische Variation im deutschsprachigen Raum (1997*). The German-speaking World. A practical introduction to current sociolinguistic issues (1997).

Aufsätze und Beiträge: Political culture and intergroup relations in plurilingual Switzerland (Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1990). (with C. Mar-Molinero) Language, geography and politics: the territorial imperative debate (Language Problems and Language Planning, 1991). The German language and the construction of national identities, in 'Das unsichtbare Band der Sprache' (ed. J.L. Flood et al.) (1993). Gegenwartsbewältigung: coming to terms with the present in Germany (Multilingua, 1995). Syntactic variation and change in contemporary German, in Sociolinguistics, Language and Society (ed. M. Verma et al.) (1997*). The dynamics of linguistic and cultural identification on the central margins of Europe (Sociolinguistica, 1997*).

Übersetzungen: The German Language and the Real World: sociolinguistic, pragmatic and cultural perspectives on contemporary German (1995).

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen: BA (Oxon), PGCE (Sussex), MA (Reading)