GeWiss is a research project in spoken academic language. It provides a multilingual (German/English/Polish/Italian) corpus of audio recordings and transcriptions of academic communications, as an empirical foundation for comparative research.

To this end, the GeWiss corpus focusses on two main genres of spoken adademic language:

• talks including discussions, and
• oral exams,

and it explicitly distinguishes between L1 and L2 subcorpora. The corpus is enlarged and developed continuously.