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540 Contributors

Celia Roberts
is Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London. Her research interests are
institutional discourse, medical communication, second language socialisation
and linguistic ethnographic methodology. Her publications include Language
and Discrimination, Talk Work and Institutional Order and Language Learners
as Ethnographers.

Martina Rost-Roth
is a reader in Linguistics/German at the Free University Berlin, has been a
Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley (Department of Anthropology/Gumperz)
and has held an acting professorship of intercultural communication at Chem-
nitz Technical University, among other positions. Her work focuses on con-
versational analysis, second language acquisition and intercultural communi-
cation.

Albert Scherr
is Professor of sociology at the University of Education Freiburg/Germany. His
main fields of interest include sociology of education, intercultural and anti-
racist education, theory of social work.

Helen Spencer-Oatey
is Director of the Centre for English Language Teacher Education at the Univer-
sity of Warwick. She is interested in the impact of culture on language and
interaction, especially in relation to the management of rapport. Previously she
was manager of the MA Intercultural Communication degree at the University
of Bedfordshire. Her publications include Culturally Speaking (Continuum) and
Intercultural Interaction (Palgrave, forthcoming).

Janet Spreckels
is Junior Professor at the German Department of Freiburg University of Edu-
cation, Germany. She received her PhD from Heidelberg University with a so-
ciolinguistic study on communication among adolescent girls.

Winfried Thielmann
is a lecturer/researcher at the Institute of German as a Foreign Language of the
Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Previously he taught German and
German linguistics at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Nathalie van Meurs
is a research fellow at the Open University, U.K., investigating national and or-
ganizational culture. Previously she lectured in cross-cultural psychology and
empirical methods at Oxford Brookes University.