To join the network, email Sofia and Jakob with a brief indication of focus areas and special interests (see examples below) and your affiliation.
Freie Universität Berlin
Focus areas: South Korea, Taiwan, East Asia
Special interests: corpus creation, digital media, morpho-syntax, discourse-pragmatic phenomena
University of Regensburg
Focus areas: Taiwan, East Asia
Special interests: linguistic landscapes, language planning and policy, digital media
Mohammad A. N. Alenezi
Kuwait University
Focus area: Kuwait, Gulf region
Special interests: morphosyntax, quantitative linguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse-pragmatic features
University of Manchester
Focus areas: China, Korea
Special interests: language and identity, linguistic prejudice, assessment, linguistic rights
Sohar University
Focus areas: Oman, GCC Countries
Special interests: sociolinguistics, World Englishes, Philippine English, English education
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Focus areas: Japan
Special interests: sociolinguistics, World Englishes, language landscapes, corpus creation, Japanese English, intercultural communication, English education
University of Ljubljana
Focus areas: Europe, Mauritius, Japan, El Salvador, Uzbekistan, Malaysia
Special interests: (contemporary and historical) sociolinguistics, corpus compilation, morphosyntax
University of Würzburg
Focus area: megacities
Special interests: Geolingual studies, pragmatics and discourse, (urban) sociolinguistics, digital media, compilation of historical corpora
University of Münster
Focus areas: Brazil, South America, Germany
Special interests: corpus compilation, phonetics, sociolinguistics
Chisato Oda
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies & University of Hamburg
Focus Area: Japan, East Asia
Special interests: morpho-syntax, discourse and pragmatics, corpus compilation, sociolinguistics
Radboud University
Focus areas: Netherlands, Germany
Special interests: corpus creation, morpho-syntactic and discourse-pragmatic features, popular culture (esp. music)
Heidelberg University
Focus areas: Eastern Europe
Special interests: English as a Lingua Franca, morpho-syntax, lexical features