Monika Reif (PhD 2010), Neele Mundt (PhD 2021) and Frank Polzenhagen (PhD 2005, habilitation 2014) are lecturers and researchers in English linguistics at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU) in Landau, Germany. Their main research fields include Second Language Development, (Critical) Discourse Studies, Cognitive (Socio-)Linguistics and Cultural Linguistics.

• Part I Studies in cognitive grammar : Günter Radden : The story of hitting – Marjolijn Verspoor : English articles: A cognitive linguistic lesson – Susanne Niemeier : The (non- ) use of the existential there construction by German EFL learners – Part II Applied- linguistic studies: Discourse and language teaching : Iris Kleinbub : Mehrsprachigkeitsorientierter Grammatikunterricht: Schlaglichter aus Lehrer*innensicht – Philipp Maas, Selina Schleppi and Bernd Engelhart : Phonetic imaging in the English classroom: Mapping and modelling acoustic landscapes of non- native vocal tracts – Luna Filipović : Interpreting challenges in the context of police interviews and interrogations – Andreas Musolff : Culture- specific variation in conceptualisations of nations as bodies and/ or persons – Part III Linguistic- landscape studies : Ulrich Schmitz : English in the linguistic landscape of the Ruhr Metropolis – Monika Reif and Frank Polzenhagen : LLL – The linguistic landscape of Landau – Neele- Frederike Mundt : Language policy and the linguistic landscape in Yaoundé (Cameroon) – Part IV Studies on language variation and language policy : Hans- Georg Wolf : Delineating the lexicon of West African English and some thoughts on the concept of “variety” – Mompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi : Language and nationalism in Africa: The case of Setswana in Botswana – Andy Chebanne and Kemmonye Monaka : The need for preservation of a national language: A brief report on Setswana language in Botswana – Sabine Diao- Klaeger : French in Africa – Karsten Legère : Von LiCCA 1991 zu IYIL 2019 – Karen Chavira and Dennis R. Preston : Code choice in El Paso: Stable triglossia? – Part V Studies on literature and film : Lothar Bluhm and Hiroko Nishiguchi : „weil sich hier kein so naher Zusammenhang äußert“: Grimms Märchen in Japan zwischen Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit – Kathleen Starck and Stella Butter : The complexion of sympathy in William Wyler’s The Letter – Achim Hescher : History under ground: Factuality and counterfactuality in Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad and Ben Winters’ Underground Airlines – Hans- Peter Wagner : LOST: The ultimate TV show?