Book launch with chapter on Hong Kong business correspondence

On 7 March 2025, Ninja Schulz, Lisa Lehnen and Carolin Biewer attended a book launch hosted at TU Dortmund and presented their chapter “‘I shall be glad if you will note…’: Studying Early 20th-Century Business Correspondence from Hong Kong to Assess Variety-specific Genre Developments”. The event honoured Prof. Dr. Edgar Schneider’s contribution and influence on research in World Englishes and he was presented the volume World Englishes in the 21st Century. New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model (edited by Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert and Sarah Buschfeld), which is the first to appear in the series New Directions in World Englishes Research published at Edinburgh University Press. The chapter authored by the team from Würzburg provides first insights into the diachronic development of business correspondence in Hong Kong and emphasises the role of genre in studies of (postcolonial) varieties thereby offering a new perspective to World Englishes research.