Anna Havinga Editor

Anna Havinga is a doctoral student in historical sociolinguistics at the University of Bristol. Her PhD thesis investigates the standardisation process of German in eighteenth-century Austria, with a particular focus on the role of education. Further research interests include folk linguistics, language attitudes and language contact phenomena.
Nils Langer is Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of Bristol. Born and raised in Schleswig-Holstein, he studied German and English linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he completed his PhD on the effectiveness of seventeenth-century German grammarians. He researches a broad range of topics in historical sociolinguistics and currently works on language contact phenomena and language politics in the German–Danish borderlands.