Geolingual Studies team at IAWE26

Geolingual Studies team at IAWE26

July 29, 2025

Geolingual Studies were represented with two talks at this year’s conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE26) which took place in Gießen (Germany) on 25-27 July 2025 and was themed “World Englishes through Space and Time”. Carolin Biewer represented the GLS team with a talk entitled “Around the World on New Year’s Eve in 2021: Urban Discourses on Twitter (X)”. Ninja Schulz and Lisa Lehnen presented a paper “Exploring Local Themes and Global Connectedness in Social Media Discourse from London and Edinburgh”. Both talks included findings about the role of English in online communication from and about multilingual and highly complex urban spaces integrating remote sensing, NLP, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis in world Englishes frameworks.

 

 

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