Research areas at the chair

Prof. Dr. Lange's research interests

• Varieties of English, especially Postcolonial Englishes
• Language ideology and the politics of language in South and Southeast Asia
• Language contact
• Standardization
• Discourse pragmatics
• Grammaticalization
   

Dr. Sven Leuckert's research interests

• Varieties of English, with a focus on South and Southeast Asian Englishes and English in Madeira

• Multilingualism, language contact, and language typology

• 'Mountaineering English' as a specialised register

• Non-canonical syntax and syntactic change

• Communities (of Practice) on Reddit

• English as a Lingua Franca

• Language and horror