Brief description: Edgar W. Schneider is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Author of many books, including Postcolonial English (CUP 2007), and the developer of the 'Dynamic Model', he researches, edits and writes across topics including varieties of English, sociolinguistics, dialect geography and language contact. He has edited the journal English World-Wide for many years and was President of the International Society for the Linguistics of English.
