This volume represents the breadth and depth of current linguistic research of predominantly young linguists. It contains papers from systemic linguistics, text linguistics, sociolinguistics and the didactics of language.

Contents: Marco Benincasa: On the Evaluation of Morphological Form of the German Universal Quantifier – Tobias Gärtner: Amplifiers in Native and Non-Native Speaker Language Performance – Bjarne Ørsnes: The Faces of the German Adverb – Meike Pentrel: Usage, Status, and Function of Stand-Alone – Alexander Brock: On the Corruption of Text Types. The Cases of Comedy and Readers’ Commentaries in Online Newspapers – Fabian Gohl/Caroline Schilling: «What’s on Your Mind?» and Who Do You Want to Tell? Negotiating Collapsed Contexts and Multiple Audiences in Facebook Status Updates – Claudia Lehmann: On Irony-in-Interaction – Helge Missal: Die Textsorte aus systemtheoretischer Perspektive – Peter Schildhauer: The Textual Functions of Personal Weblogs. Stability, Diversity, and Change – Monika David/Justyna Maslach: Umgang mit lernungewohnten Teilnehmern mit z.T. fossilisierten Sprachbeständen auf niedrigem Niveau. Portfolioarbeit in Förderkursen – Cordula Neis: Fictional Orality as a Challenge for the Translator – Hagen Peukert: The Toolset. Handling the Diversity of English Historical Texts – Jana Pflaeging: Promoting the Visualisation of Linguistic Theories – Anne Ammermann: Revisiting Spanglish – Ulrich Busse: Was uns Begriffe wie etc. über Lehnbeziehungen und die Einstellungen der Sprachteilhaber verraten – Michael M. Kretzer: The Importance of Language Attitudes Regarding First-Language-Based Education in South Africa. Case Study in Gauteng and Northwest Province – Matthias Wolny: Communicative Space and Language Use in the Age of Globalized Migration.