Anne Barron is Professor of English Linguistics at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. In her research, she focuses on written and spoken communication across languages and cultures and on the acquisition of intercultural competences by second and foreign language learners in various contexts of use (stay abroad, telecollaboration). Her main research interests lie in the areas of pragmatics (interlanguage pragmatics, variational pragmatics, intercultural pragmatics, corpus pragmatics), corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics (region, gender, Irish English, Nigerian English) and discourse analysis (contrastive genre analysis, corpus discourse analysis, public information campaigns).
