| Lingua Franca English : The Role of Simplification and Transfer Yvonne Dröschel is a doctoral assistant at the University of Freiburg, Switzerland. Before taking up her current position, she was a research and teaching assistant with Professor Peter Trudgill and carried out research for the Swiss National Science Foundation project Language Contact and Focusing: The Linguistics of English in Switzerland . Her main interests lie in the field of sociolinguistics and language acquisition, and her articles include Queering language: a love that dare not speak its name comes out of the closet . |