Interview with Edgar W. Schneider
Edgar W. Schneider is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany, after previous appointments in Bamberg, Athens (GA) and Berlin. He has written and edited several books, as well as published and lectured extensively on varieties of English, sociolinguistics, language variation and change, dialect geography, and the history of English. He is known especially as the author of the "Dynamic Model" of the evolution of postcolonial Englishes in the World Englishes paradigm. The following interview with Edgar W. Schneider was conducted via email by Viveka Velupillai between March and May 2016. The text of the interview has been edited only minimally from the original.