Past guest lectures
Dr. Alexandra Gomes
Kuwaitscapes: Mapping and games as tools for communicating urban research
02.07.2025
Ariana Acosta
Alignment and Divergence in Humour Processing between Neural Responses and Language Model Metrics
30.04.2026
Prof. Dr. Magnus Huber
Extreme Languages: Pidgins & Creoles
20.05.2025
Prof. Dr. Raymond Hickey
Using early audio records to track language change
30.04.2025
Prof. Dr. Svenja Kranich
Democratization and the changing English language
12.12.2023
Prof. Dr. Alexander Bergs
Historical sociolinguistics: Limits, risks, and chances
27.07.2023
Prof. Dr. Dominic Watt
From Tweed to Tees: Using the Geographical Association Test (GAT) to test sociophonetic sensitivity among listeners from north-east England
27.07.2023
Prof. Dr. Anita Fetzer
"It's a very good thing to bring democracy erm directly to everybody at home": The strategic use of 'doing ordinariness' in mediated political discourse
06.12.2022
Prof. Dr. Raymond Hickey
Examining ‘Bad Data’: Ego Documents in the History of English
21.06.2022
Dr. Tobias Bernaisch
Random Forests in R: A Practical Introduction
20.05.2022
Dr. Alena Soloshenko and Dr. Fabio Carrella
English Linguistics Thesis Talks
17.05.2022
Dr. Tobias Bernaisch
The Structure of Sri Lankan English: Empirical Perspectives
02.02.2021
Assoc. Prof. Susanne Mohr and Katrin Renkwitz, M.A.
Irish Sign Language (ISL)
08.12.20
Prof. Dr. Magnus Huber
The "Old Bailey Corpus" and its potential for the study of Late Modern English
22.01.2020
Prof. Dr. Anita Fetzer
"The question people are asking is this" – The strategic use of references to ordinariness in political discourse
20.11.2018
Prof. Dr. Markus Bieswanger
Applied Linguistics: State of the Art and Concrete Applications
18.06.2018
Prof. Dr. Lawrence Solan
Corpus Linguistics as a Tool in Legal Interpretation
28.11.2017
Gaby Axer, M.A.
Forensic linguistics – Opportunities and challenges
16.11.2017
Prof. Dr. Kate Burridge
"Frequent coarse language" – Swearing and taboo language downunder
27.10.2017
Prof. Dr. Pam Peters
An Antipodean standard – How similar are Australian and New Zealand English in their grammar and style?
29.05.2017
Prof. Dr. Kristin Hanson
"To th' course of alt'ring things"
Formal Innovation and the Meter of Shakespeare's Sonnets
23.05.2017
