This volume contains a selection of ten papers based on lectures which have been given in the Language & Linguistics section of the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (CAGCR) at Queen Mary, University of London, since autumn 2006. The first paper discusses the position of Linguistics in British German Studies; subsequent papers discuss not only the influence of English on Swiss German, Austrian German, and German in Germany, but also the German influence on English. Other papers deal with the integration of anglicisms in the German language, problems of the grammatical gender of anglicisms, their position in Aus dem Inhalt/Contents: Falco Pfalzgraf: Vorwort - Sylvia Jaworska: Where Have All the Linguists Gone? The Position of Linguistics in British German Studies from the mid-19th Century until 2000 - Anthony Stanforth: The Influence of High German on the English Language - Alexander Onysko: Divergence with a Cause? The Systemic Integration of Anglicisms in German as an Indication of the Intensity of Language Contact - David Yeandle: English Loan Words and their Gender in German. An Etymological Perspective - Kerstin Paul/Eva Wittenberg: "Askim, Baby, Schatz...". Anglizismen in einer multiethnischen Jugendsprache - Rudolf Muhr: Anglizismen und Pseudoanglizismen im Österreichischen Deutsch: 1945-2008. Ein Bericht - Felicity Rash: "Englisch ist cool": The Influence of English on Swiss German - Gerald Newton: The English Influence on Luxembourgish - Falco Pfalzgraf: Sprachpurismus und Globalisierung - Melani Schröter: Der Thatcher-Merkel-Vergleich in der britischen und deutschen Presse 2005.