2011 Issue 1 Article Einleitung zum Themenschwerpunkt: Alltagssprache und Deutsch als Fremdsprache By Melani Schröter (Reading) & Nils Langer (Bristol) Article ‘Aapkatt, Ramfotzn, Zierlabbe.’ What does the Schimpfwörterbuch tell us about the role of swearing in modern German? By Geraldine Horan (London) Article ‘Wotcher, Mate! Wie geht’s, Liebchen?’ Terms of greeting in English and German By John Partridge (Canterbury) Article Everyday Language in the Spotlight: The Decline of the Genitive Case By Alan K. Scott (Nottingham) Article Demonstrative vs. personal and zero pronouns in spoken German By Regina Weinert (Sheffield) Article Everyday academic language in German historiography By Peter Skrandies (London) Article Der öffentliche Diskurs der Wirtschaftkrise in Zeitungstexten By Petra Storjohann (Mannheim)