For Episode 2, I have another great linguist, Prof Dr Daniel Schreier, from the University of Zurich!

Daniel Schreier is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich. He has taught and researched in the United States, New Zealand and Germany, and held an Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand).

Listen to our fascinating discussion regarding his research interests, which include varieties of English around the world, language variation and change, contact linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as English dialectology and varieties of English around the world, better- and lesser-known.

He is author of several books on English in the South Atlantic, editor of books on language change in English, including written sources, has published some eighty articles, co-edited the journal English World-Wide (from 2013-2019) and is Co-Editor of the Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes. He has been Head of the English Department at UZH (2009-13, 2017-21) , Member of the Faculty's Research Committee (2007-2019) and Laufbahn Committee (2017-), Member of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Ambizione program; 2008-2019), and 2002/3: Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Postdoctoral Fellow.

He is currently the President Senior:innenuniversity UZH3, for senior citizens who wish to study and research.

He has also served/is serving on the editorial boards: English World-Wide: A Journal of Varieties of English, Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, Atlantis (Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies).

And I am extremely fortunate to have him as my PhD supervisor!

Enjoy Episode 2!