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.
Contribution to the Science Slam at GAIA exhibition in Mainz
Under the theme – HOSTING THE EARTH AT THE CHRISTUSKIRCHE IN MAINZ https://www.gaia-mainz.de/ – the world-famous installation GAIA by the British artist Luke Jerram is on display from 13 September to 4 October 2026. Seven meters in size, the Earth hovers...
