Previous Guest Lectures

Prof. Dr. Rolf Kreyer (Marburg University)

• "The Power of Language" (4 December 2025)

Aishath Suad (Maldives National University)

• English in the Maldives (16 & 17 July 2025)

Dr. Thorsten Brato (Regensburg University)

• "Sociophonetics" (19 November 2025)

Dr. Philipp Meer (Münster University)

• "English in Trinidad" (11 June 2024)

Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs (University of Hamburg)

• "Spreading like a Virus - COVID discourses in the UK and Germany" (11 May 2023)

Prof. Dr. Carolin Biewer (Julius Maximilians University Würzburg)

• "South Pacific Englishes from a diachronic perspective – their evolution, their dynamics, their future" (2 February 2023)

Dr. Louisa Buckingham (University of Auckland)

• "Extreme parallels: a corpus-driven analysis of ISIS and far-right discourse" (29 January 2020)

Dr. Sven Leuckert (TU Dresden)

• "Caught in a Sprachbund? South-Asian Englishes from a typological perspective" (28 January 2020)

Dr. Werner Botha (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

• "Language in the social networks of students in Singapore" (26 June 2019)

Prof. Dr. Sylviane Granger (Université catholique de Louvain)

• "Learner corpora in foreign language learning and teaching" (18 June 2019)

Prof. Dr. Robert McColl Millar (University of Aberdeen)

• "Scots as a sociolinguistic entity" (28 May 2018)

Dr. Christine Günther (Heinrich Heine University)

• "Particle placement from an experimental perspective" (03 May 2018)

Prof. Terttu Nevalainen (University of Helsinki)

• "Historical sociolinguistics - the case of verbal -s" (25 January 2018)

Prof. Dr. Daniel Schreier (University of Zurich)

• "Lesser-known varieties of English as a repository for archaic dialect features: new evidence of colonial lag?" (18 January 2018)

Prof. Kate Burridge (Monash University)

• "The Obelisk (†) and the Asterisk (*): What early dictionaries of Modern English tell us about verbal hygiene" (11 January 2018)

Dr. des. Danae Perez (University of Zurich)

• "Qui laya pue? Challenges and Benefits of Documenting and Analyzing Afro-Yungueño Spanish" (04 December 2017)

Prof. Dr. Martin Hilpert (Université de Neuchâtel)

• "A Construction Grammar perspective on productivity" (26 June 2017)

Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider (University of Regensburg)

• "And what is English? Native, second or foreign language, lingua franca, instrumental code, or what?" (18 May 2017)

Dr. Freek Van de Velde (KU Leuven, Belgium)

• "Individual-level and community-level grammaticalisation of 'be going to' in Early Modern English" (19 January 2017)

Dr. Natalia Levshina (University of Leipzig)

• "Duzen or Siezen? What permutation and recursive partitioning can tell us about politeness in European languages" (18 January 2017)

Prof. Dr. Lieselotte Anderwald (Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel)

• "How successful was 19th-century prescriptivism?" (16 January 2017)

Prof. Assoc. Dr. Lindita Tahiri (University of Prishtina)

• "Language as ideological construction: fiction, media and history" (19 December 2016)
• "Discourse and context: Internet activism and literature" (20 December 2016)
• "Language as ideological construction: fiction, media and history" (22 December 2016)
• "Language as ideological construction: fiction, media and history" (22 December 2016)

Dr. Elisabet Tiselius (Stockholm University)

• "Teaching Immigrant Children in Sweden" (21 June 2016)

Dr. Gladys Ansah (University of Ghana)

• "Culture in embodied cognition: metaphorical/metonymic conceptualisations of FEAR/ANGER in Akan and English" (08 June 2016) 
• "Motivation and L2-learning" (10 June 2016)
• "Motivation and L2-learning" (13 June 2016)
• "Cultural conceptualisations of democracy and political discourse in Ghana" (15 June 2016)
• "Language in education policies in Africa (focus on Ghana)" (24 June 2016)

Dr. Monika Bednarek (University of Sydney)

• "'Wicked' women in contemporary pop culture: 'bad' language and gender in Weeds, Nurse Jackie, and Saving Grace" (09 June 2016)

Bruce Eunson

• “Dis Quiet–A Film in Shetland dialect: Reflections on the use of an endangered variety” (06 June 2016)

Prof. Dr. Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université catholique de Louvain)

• "Postcolonial and Learner Englishes: Not so different, say corpora" (26 April 2016)
• “Corpora & applied linguistics: From the classroom to the courtroom and beyond” (28 April 2016)

Prof. Dr. Christiane Brand (FH Köln)

• "Linguistics in Practice: The art(s) of translating" (21 January 2016)

Dr. Valentin Werner (Universität Bamberg)

• "The language of pop music lyrics" (17 December 2015)

Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange (TU Dresden)

• "Indian English" (09 December 2015)

Prof. Dr. Beatrix Busse (University of Heidelberg)

• "Urban Discursive Place-Making" (15 January 2015)

Prof. Dr. Marcus Callies (University of Bremen)

• "High-frequency nouns and their verbal collocates in academic learner writing" (13 January 2015)

Prof. Dr. Marcus Callies (University of Bremen)

• "High-frequency nouns and their verbal collocates in academic learner writing" (13 January 2015)

Prof. Kingsley Bolton (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

• "English in China" (21 May 2014)

Dr. Tomàs Gráf (Charles University, Prague)

• "Teaching Pronunciation to EFL Learners" (20 May 2014)

Prof. Dr. Marcus Callies (University of Bremen)

• "Lexico-grammatical variation in advanced learner varieities" (26 January 2012)

Prof. Dr. Raymond Hickey (Universität Duisburg-Essen)

• "Areal Features of the Anglophone World" (23 November 2011)

Nicole Baumgarten (University of Southern Denmark)

• "English as a Lingua Franca - where does it exist?" (03 February 2011)

Prof. Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster)

• "Change in 20^th century English - with focus on grammar" (22 June 2010)

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hoffmann (Universität Trier)

• "Corpus Linguistics: some further methodological issues" (25 January 2010)

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Esser (Universität Bonn)

• "The Description of Rhythm in Prose and Poetry" (21 January 2010)

Dr. Rolf Kreyer (Universität Bonn)

• "Network models in the description of grammar" (25 June 2009)

Dr. Jan Tent (Macquarie University)

• "Indigenous loanwords in three varieties of Pacific English: An analysisof borrowing patterns and attitudes" (02 June 2009)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stefan Th. Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara)

• "Bottom-up approaches in corpus linguistics: exploring temporal, geographic, register and grammatical variation" (25 May 2009)

Dr. Encarnación Hidalgo Tenoria (Universidad de Granada)

• "Language and gender: performing and constructing differences" (04 June 2008)

Dr. Michaela Mahlberg (University of Liverpool)

• "Corpus stylistics: taking a corpus approach to the analysis of style in literary texts" (14 January 2008)

Prof. Dr. Bas Aarts (University College London)

• "'There's guy works down the chip shop thinks he's Elvis': Syntactic mixing in the grammar of English speech act representation in EFL textbooks: An interlanguage pragmatic appraisal" (04 December 2007)

Prof. Dr. Rajend Mesthrie (University of Cape Town)

• "Sociolinguistic Variation in South African English: Characterising Social Change" (07 July 2007)

Dr. Sebastian Hoffmann (Leicester University)

• "Corpus Linguistics and the World-Wide Web" (02 July 2007)

Prof. Dr. Josef Schmidt (TU Chemnitz)

• "Real language data and style models: Is there an African style in Academic English?" (12 June 2007)

Prof. Dr. Günter Rohdenburg (Universität Paderborn)

• "The effect of complement negation on the choice between more or less explicit sentential structures in English" (12 June 2007)

Prof. Dr. Marianne Hundt (Universität Heidelberg)

• "The Dynamics of Inner and Outer Circle Varieties" (04 June 2007)

Dr. Anne Barron (Universität Bonn)

• "'Can you play a new CD, please?' - Speech act realisations in EFL textbooks: An interlanguage pragmatic appraisal" (08 May 2007)

Prof. Dr. Klaus P. Schneider (Universität Bonn)

• "Variational Pragmatics: An Emerging Discipline" (15 May 2006)

Prof. Dr. Roberta Facchinetti (Verona University)

• "Corpora and Journalistic Writing" (02 February 2006)

Dr. Sebastian Hoffmann (University of Zurich)

• "Investigating Language Change: Grammaticalization and Corpus Data" (02 February 2005)