| English As a Lingua Franca in Cross-Cultural Immigration Domains The Author: Maria Grazia Guido is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the University of Salento, Italy, where she is also Director of the Master's Course in 'Cross-cultural Language Mediation in Immigration and Asylum Contexts'. She holds a Ph.D. in English Applied Linguistics from the University of London, Institute of Education. Her research interests are in cognitive-functional linguistics applied to intercultural communication and specialized discourse analysis. Her monographs include The Acting Reader (1999), The Imaging Reader (2005), Mediating Cultures (2004) and Register and Dialect in an Integrated Model of European English (1999). |