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Prof. Dr. Christiane Meierkord – Publications

Monographs

Meierkord, Christiane (2012). Interactions across Englishes. Linguistic Choices in Local and International Contact Situations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Meierkord, Christiane (1996). Englisch als Medium der interkulturellen Kommunikation. Untersuchungen zum non-native-/ non-native speaker Diskurs. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang. (PhD Dissertation. University of Düsseldorf).

Meierkord, Christiane (1989). Untersuchungen zur sprachlichen Variation auf Guernsey. Unpublished Masters Thesis. University of Düsseldorf.

Edited volumes

Meierkord, Christiane & Schneider, Edgar W. (eds.) (2021). World Englishes at the Grassroots. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Meierkord, Christiane; Isingoma, Bebwa; Namyalo, Saudah (eds.) (2016). Ugandan English. Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalising Post-Protectorate. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Jungbluth, Konstanze & Meierkord, Christiane (eds.) (2007). Identities in Migration Contexts. Tübingen: Narr.

Meierkord, Christiane (ed.) (2006). The Sociolinguistics of Lingua Franca Communication - Standardisation and Self-Regulation. (#177 of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language).

Knapp, Karlfried & Meierkord, Christiane (eds.) (2002a). Lingua Franca Communication. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang.

Fetzer, Anita & Meierkord, Christiane (eds.) (2002b). Rethinking Sequentiality. Linguistics meets Social Interaction. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Papers in scientific journals and edited volumes

Meierkord, Christiane; Isingoma, Bebwa; Kagwesage, Anne Marie (2024, fc.). English in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. In: Hickey, Raymond (ed.). The New Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume VI: Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Meierkord, Christiane (2023). Society, culture and the speech act of praise - Observations from Ugandan English vis-à-vis British English. Contrastive Pragmatics.

Meierkord, Christiane (2023, fc.). World Englishes at the grassroots. In: Chapelle, Carol A. (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. 2nd. Ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Meierkord, Christiane (2022). Post-protectorate Uganda and current models of influence across Englishes. World Englishes, 41(3). 429-445

Meierkord, Christiane & Isingoma, Bebwa (2022). Between first language influence, exonormative orientation and migration: Future time expressions in post-protectorate Ugandan English. English World-Wide,
43(2). 220–248.

Isingoma, Bebwa & Meierkord, Christiane (2022). Between exonormative traditions and local acceptance: A corpus-linguistic study of modals of obligation and spatial prepositions in spoken Ugandan English. Open Linguistics, 8(1). 87-107.

Meierkord, Christiane (2021). Extending the scope of world Englishes: Interactions across Englishes in post-protectorates and at the grassroots. In: Onysko, Alexander (ed.). Research Developments in World Englishes. London: Bloomsbury. 47-71.

Meierkord, Christiane (2021). Access to English and the Englishes of the disadvantaged: Examples from Uganda and South Africa. In: Meierkord, Christiane & Schneider, Edgar W. (eds). World Englishes at the Grassroots. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 91-114.

Meierkord, Christiane & Schneider, Edgar W. (2021) Introduction: English spreading at the grassroots. In: Meierkord, Christiane & Schneider, Edgar W. (eds.). World Englishes at the Grassroots. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 1-22.

Meierkord, Christiane & Isingoma, Bebwa (2021). Lexico-pragmatics between cultural heritage and exonormative second language acquisition: address terms, greetings & discourse markers in Ugandan English. In: Peters, Pam & Burridge, Kay (eds.) Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Meierkord, Christiane (2020). Spread of English at the grassroots? Sociolinguistic evidence from two post-protectorates: Maldives and Uganda. In: Kirkpatrick, Andy (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes. London: Routledge. 233-249.

Meierkord, Christiane (2020). The global growth of English at the grassroots. In: Schreier, Daniel; Hundt, Marianne; Schneider, Edgar W. (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 311-338.

Meierkord, Christiane (2020). Indian English in lesser-known ecologies: Afghanistan, Maldives and Uganda. In: Giri, Ram A.; Sharma, A.; D’Angelo, James (eds.). Functional Variations in English. Theoretical Considerations and Practical Challenges. Cham: Springer. 113-125.

Meierkord, Christiane (2020). Interactions across Englishes in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Singapore. In: Klöter, Henning & Söderblom Saarela, Mårten (eds.). Language Diversity in the Sinophone World: Historical Trajectories, Language Planning, and Multilingual Practices. London: Routledge. 80-98.

Meierkord, Christiane (2019). Attitudes towards exogenous and endogenous uses of English: Ugandans’ judgements of English structures in varieties of English. International Journal of English Linguistics, 10(1). 1-14.

Isingoma, Bebwa & Meierkord, Christiane (2019). Capturing the lexicon of Ugandan English: ICE-Uganda and its effective complements. In: Esimaje, A.U.; Gut, U.; Antia, B.E. (eds.). Corpus linguistics and African Englishes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 294-328.

Meierkord, Christiane (2018). English in paradise: the Maldives. English Today, 34(1). 1-10.

Isingoma, Bebwa & Meierkord, Christiane (2016). Ugandan English - challenges to, and input for, current theories. In Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma & Saudah Namyalo (eds.), Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalising Post-protectorate, 1-15. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Namyalo, Saudah; Isingoma, Bebwa; Meierkord, Christiane (2016). Towards assessing the space of English in Uganda’s linguistic ecology: facts and issues. In Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma & Saudah Namyalo (eds.), Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalising Post-protectorate, 19-49. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Meierkord, Christiane (2016). A social history of English(es) in Uganda. In Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma & Saudah Namyalo (eds.), Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalising Post-protectorate, 51-71. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Meierkord, Christiane (2016). Diphthongs in Ugandan English: Evidence for and against variety status and Interactions across Englishes. In Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma & Saudah Namyalo (eds.), Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalising Post-protectorate, 121-147. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Ssempuuma, Jude; Isingoma, Bebwa; Meierkord, Christiane (2016). The use of the progressive in Ugandan English. In Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma & Saudah Namyalo (eds.), Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalising Post-protectorate, 173-199. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Meierkord, Christiane (2016).Speech acts in Ugandan English social letters: Investigating the influence of socio-cultural context.In Christiane Meierkord, Bebwa Isingoma & Saudah Namyalo (eds.), Ugandan English: Its Sociolinguistics, Structure and Uses in a Globalising Post-protectorate, 227-248. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Meierkord, Christiane (2016). Review of 'The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and Beyond', edited by Sarah Buschfeld, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber & Alexander Kautzsch, 2014. English World-Wide, 37(3). 354-364.

Meierkord, Christiane; Fonkeu, Bridget; Zumhasch, Eva (2015). Diasporic second language Englishes in the African communities of Germany’s Ruhr Area. International Journal of English Linguistics, 5. 1-15.

Bolton, Kingsley & Meierkord, Christiane (2013). English in contemporary Sweden. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 17. 93-117.

Meierkord, Christiane & Fonkeu, Bridget (2013). Of birds and the human species. In: Johannesson, Nils-Lennart; Melchers, Gunnel; Björkmann, Beyza (eds.). Of Butterflies and Birds, of Dialects and Genres : Essays in Honour of Philip Shaw. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. 271-287.

Meierkord, Christiane (2012). Review of 'Dreams and Realities: Developing Countries and the English Language', edited by Hywel Coleman. World Englishes, 31(3). 411-414.

Meierkord, Christiane (2012). English as Lingua Franca. In: Chapelle, Carol A. (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Boton, Kingsley; Graddol, David; Meierkord, Christiane (2011). Towards Developmental World Englishes. World Englishes, 30(4). 459-480.

Meierkord, Chrisiane (2011). 'U r ma treasure bila measure.' Identity construction in Kenya's multilingual spaces. In: Anchimbe, Eric A. & Mforteh, Steven A. (eds.). Postcolonial Linguistic Voices: Identity Choices and Representations. Berlin: De Gruyter. 25-50.

Meierkord, Christiane (2011). Englisch in Schwedens Sprachökologien - universitäre und alltägliche Kontexte." In: Fiedler, Sabine & Busch-Lauer, Ines (eds.). Sprachraum Europa – Alles English oder...?. Berlin: Frank & Timme. 59-76.

Meierkord, Christiane (2009). It's kuulo tu. Recent developments in Kenya's Englishes. English Today, 25(1). 3-11.

Meierkord, Christiane & Dresemann, Bettina (2009). Lingua-Franca- Kommunikation in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Trainingsmodul zur Vorbereitung von Fachkräften in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Bad Honnef: InWEnt.

Meierkord, Christiane (2008). Comment 6: English used as a lingua franca - one form or Interactions across Englishes? – A reply to Philipson. World Englishes, 27(2). 278-279.

Meierkord, Christiane (2007). Coherence devices in the Englishes of speakers in the expanding circle. In: Geluykens, Ronald and Kraft, Bettina (eds.). Cross-Cultural Pragmatics and Interlanguage English. München: Lincom. 201-219.

Meierkord, Christiane & Jungbluth, Konstanze (2007). Introduction. In: Jungbluth, Konstanze and Meierkord, Christiane (eds.). Identities in Migration Contexts. Tübingen: Narr. 1-10

Meierkord, Christiane (2007). (De)constructing national identities in international student migration. In: Jungbluth, Konstanze and Meierkord, Christiane (eds.). Identities in Migration Contexts. Tübingen: Narr. 35-49.

Meierkord, Christiane (2007). Standards and norms in interactions across second language Englishes: the case of South Africa. In: Volk-Birke, Sabine (ed.). Anglistentag 2006 Halle. Proceedings. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 331-340.

Meierkord, Christiane (2007). Lingua franca communication in multiethnic contexts. In: Kotthoff, Helga and Spencer-Oatey, Helen (eds.). Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Berlin: de Gruyter. 199-218.

Meierkord, Christiane; Minow, Verena; Loch, Katrin (2007). WE Gate – Münster Gateway to World Englishes. In: Grob, Heinz Lothar & vom Brocke, Jan (eds.). E-learning Praxisberichte. Münster: Ercis – European Research Center for Information Systems.

Meierkord, Christiane (2006). Lingua franca communication past and present. In: Meierkord, Christiane (ed.). The Sociolinguistics of Lingua Franca Communication - Standardisation and Self-Regulation (International Journal of the Sociology of Language 177). 9-30.

Meierkord, Christiane (2006). Review of 'Language in Cape Town's District Six' by Kay McCormick. In: Meierkord, Christiane (ed.). The Sociolinguistics of Lingua Franca Communication - Standardisation and Self-Regulation (International Journal of the Sociology of Language 177). 184-191.

Meierkord, Christiane (2006). Lingua francas as second languages. In: Brown, Keith (ed.). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier. ms 643.

Meierkord, Christiane (2005). Interactions across Englishes and their lexicon. In: Gnutzmann, Claus and Intemann, Frauke (eds). The Globalisation of English and the English Language Classroom. Tübingen: Narr. 89-104.

Meierkord, Christiane (2005). Black South African Englishes - a variationist approach. Erfurt Electronic Studies in English (EESE) 2005.

Meierkord, Christiane (2005). International Englishes in contact. In: Moessner, Lilo (ed.). Anglistentag 2004 Aachen. Proceeding. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Meierkord, Christiane. (2004). Syntax in interactions across international Englishes. English World-Wide, 25(1). 109-132.

Meierkord, Christiane (2002). 'Language stripped bare' or 'linguistic masala'? Culture in lingua franca communication. In: Knapp, Karlfried and Meierkord, Christiane (eds.). Lingua Franca Communication. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang. 109-133.

Meierkord, Christiane & Knapp, Karlfried (2002). Approaching lingua franca communication. In: Knapp, Karlfried und Meierkord, Christiane (eds.). Lingua Franca Communication. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang. 9-33.

Meierkord, Christiane (2002). Recurrent sequences and mental processes. In: Fetzer, Anita and Meierkord, Christiane (eds.). Rethinking Sequentiality. Linguistics meets Social Interaction. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 99-119.

Meierkord, Christiane & Fetzer, Anita (2002). Introduction. Sequence, sequencing, sequential organization and sequentiality. In: Fetzer, Anita and Meierkord, Christiane (eds.). Rethinking Sequentiality. Linguistics meets Social Interaction. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1-33.

Meierkord, Christiane (2000). Routine expressions in learner language. In: Koike, Ikuo (ed.). Proceedings of the Tokyo 1999 AILA Conference. Tokyo: JACET.

Meierkord, Christiane (2000). Interpreting successful lingua franca interaction. An analysis of non-native-/ non-native small talk conversations in English. In: Pittner, Karin and Fetzer, Anita (eds.) Neuere Entwicklungen in der Gesprächsforschung. Linguistik online, 5, 1/00.

Meierkord, Christiane (1999). Raising students awareness of culture-dependence in linguistic action. On the use of educational MOOs in foreign language teaching. Intercultural Communication, 2. Boras, Sweden: Immigrant Institute.

Meierkord, Christiane (1999). Review of Anita Fetzer “Negative Interaktionen. Kommunikative Strategien im britischen Englisch und interkulturelle Inferenzen”. IRAL, 37(1). 81-84.

Meierkord, Christiane (1998). Lingua franca English. Characteristics of successful non-native-/ non-native-speaker discourse. Erfurt Electronic Studies in English (EESE) 1998.