At this year’s Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (isLE8), which took place in Santiago de Compostela from 1-4 September 2025, the GLS-team (represented by Lisa Lehnen and Ninja Schulz) participated in a pre-conference workshop dedicated to Expanding Circle Englishes. In their talk entitled “Expanding beyond variety? Challenges of categorising and structurally describing English(es) in geolocated social media data”, they presented data from 29 cities around the world asking whether the use of English and local languages differs across cities and to what extent these patterns align with world Englishes models.
Invited evening lecture
The Scientific Catholic Student Association Unitas-Hetania in Würzburg has invited Hannes Taubenböck to give an evening lecture in their seminar series on the 22nd of October 2025. He presented a lecture titled "Diagnose »homo sapiens« – Was sehen...
