Acknowledgements

The project New Englishes, New Methods is the result of our long, joined engagement with variation in and across Englishes world-wide since we both met in Münster in 2010. This volume in particular is the conclusion of a series of eight workshops held from 2018 to 2022 in connection with the research network, New Englishes, New Methods, funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) (WI5235/1–1). We are particularly grateful for the DFG’s generosity in extending the duration of the funding for a further year due to limitations which arose as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

We enjoyed the four years of New Englishes, New Methods, and we would like to thank a number of people without whom all the individual workshops and the general project would not have been successful. We are grateful to Susanne Mohr and Theresa Heyd for their essential input in the early conceptualization of this project as well as Ulrike Gut for her support of the network from its inception and for her participation in all of the workshops, both online and in person. We would also like to thank the different teams for hosting individual workshop meetings: Axel Bohmann, Beke Hansen, Mirka Honkanen, Miriam Neuhausen, and Sonya Kinsey for organising the Freiburg workshop on field methods in New Englishes research; Susanne Mohr and Sandra Jansen for organising the online workshop on pragmatics in New Englishes; as well as Thorsten Brato and Theresa Neumaier for organising the Regensburg workshop on corpus linguistics (even if Covid had other plans). We are indebted to every speaker who shared their insights on New Englishes, New Methods at the different workshop meetings: Noura Abdou, Samson Ajagbe, Anne Barron, Thorsten Brato, Axel Bohmann, Julia Degenhardt, Ryan Durgasingh, Ronald Francis, Robert Fuchs, Shelome Gooden, Ulrike Gut, Beke Hansen, Theresa Heyd, Sonya Kinsey, Lisa Lehnen, Christian Mair, Philipp Meer, Susanne Mohr, Miriam Neuhausen, Theresa Neumaier, Foluke Olayinka Unuabonah, Fola Oyebola, Giuliana Regnoli, Yolandi Ribbens-Klein, Stefanie Rottschäfer, Lionel Sango, Tatjana Schnellinger, Britta Schneider, Edgar W. Schneider, Klaus P. Schneider, Muhammad Shakir, Devyani Sharma, Warsa Melles, and Frederic Zähres. We are grateful to our student assistants Anna-Lucia Bußkamp Castro, Katherine Draheim, Elena Elgina, and Mushtariy Mamadalieva for their outstanding support at the individual workshops. Thank you very much to everyone who participated in our workshops and made them a success.

We also wish to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the following people, without whom this volume would not have been possible. We would like to thank Stephanie Hackert, the editor of the Varieties of English Around the World series, for her guidance in the editing process, as well as Kees Vaes and Isja Cohen at John Benjamins for administrative and editorial support. To all the contributors: Thank you for your patience with us and with one another, and for the effort you put into ensuring that we produced a high-quality volume. We are grateful to all the reviewers of the papers in this volume: Sarah Buschfeld, Julia Davydova, Ryan Durgasingh, Ulrike Gut, Lars Hinrichs, Mirka Honkanen, Marianne Hundt, Darlene Ka Man Lau, Sven Leuckert, Christiane Meierkord, Verena Minow, Britta Schneider, Edgar Schneider, and Marion Schulte. We are also indebted to Blessing Alade for her editorial support of this volume.

Michael would like to thank Guyanne for the 12 years of cooperation as well as all the work she has put into the project and the edited volume and Karen for her continuous academic and emotional support during the long editing process of this volume. Guyanne thanks Michael for the hours of careful editing he invested in this volume. It would not have been possible without you. Thank you for the 12 years of collaboration. Last, but by no means least, Guyanne and Michael would like to thank Dagmar Deuber, our ‘Doktor-Mutter’, for her unwavering support, encouragement, and guidance throughout our academic careers.