Lisa Lehnen

Lisa Lehnen is a Research Fellow at the Chair of English Linguistics, University of Würzburg, Germany, specializing in pragmatic variation in World Englishes. She holds a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics from the University of Bonn (2016) and a Bachelor of Arts in Anglophone Studies and Spanish Language & Culture from the University of Duisburg-Essen (2013).

• Research Focus: Pragmatic variation, intercultural communication, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics in World Englishes contexts, particularly Hong Kong English.
• Key Projects: Diachronic analysis of genre conventions in Hong Kong business correspondence; pragmatic competence in EFL teaching; identity constructions in Hong Kong news discourse.

Her publications and conference presentations highlight intersections of corpus-based and interactional approaches to pragmatic phenomena, such as disagreements, discourse particles, and modal expressions in postcolonial English varieties. She collaborates with researchers like Carolin Biewer and Ninja Schulz on comparative studies of language use in megacities.