Hartmut Haberland (born 3 February 1948 [1] in Hanover, Germany [2] ) is a German-Danish linguist and professor emeritus at Roskilde University in Denmark. [3]
In 1977, he founded the Journal of Pragmatics together with Jacob Mey. Currently, he is a co-editor of Pragmatics and Society, [4] and an editor of Acta Linguistica Hafniensia , the journal of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen. [5]
In 2005, Haberland became a Danish citizen. [6]
Haberland's textbook Soziologie + Linguistik. Die schlechte Aufhebung sozialer Ungleichheit durch Sprache from 1973 was used in Europe as his first work with widespread recognition. [6]
The launch of Journal of Pragmatics (with co-editor Jacob L. Mey) went against the Chomskyan perspectives on linguistics at the time. [7] This was part of the establishment of an interdisciplinary linguistics. [6]
Haberland has also done important work in the area of language contact and the domains of certain languages. In particular, he created attention to the influence of English on the Danish language in terms of power and ideology, through concepts on hegemony and globalization. [6]
Haberland studied German, linguistics and philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and University of Stuttgart. [2] He graduated with an MA from Freie Universität Berlin in 1971. [6] After teaching at Freie Universität Berlin he took a job at Roskilde University in 1974, first as an associate professor. [2] In 2012, he become professor of German language and the sociolinguistics of globalisation. [8] He retired in 2018. [9]
He has been a guest professor, researcher or summer school professor in Athens (1993), Soka (Japan) (1995), Beijing (1996), Guangzhou (2006), Osaka (2009) and Hong Kong (2010). [6]
In 2011, a festschrift was published with contributions based on a symposium held at his 60th birthday in 2008. [10]
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Roskilde University is a Danish public university founded in 1972 and located in Trekroner in the Eastern part of Roskilde. The university awards bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and PhD degrees in a wide variety of subjects within social sciences, the humanities, and natural sciences.
Louis Trolle Hjelmslev was a Danish linguist whose ideas formed the basis of the Copenhagen School of linguistics. Born into an academic family, Hjelmslev studied comparative linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris. In 1931, he founded the Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague. Together with Hans Jørgen Uldall he developed a structuralist theory of language which he called glossematics, which further developed the semiotic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure. Glossematics as a theory of language is characterized by a high degree of formalism. It is interested in describing the formal and semantic characteristics of language in separation from sociology, psychology or neurobiology, and has a high degree of logical rigour. Hjelmslev regarded linguistics – or glossematics – as a formal science. He was the inventor of formal linguistics. Hjelmslev's theory became widely influential in structural and functional grammar, and in semiotics.
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"As a rough approximation, we can say that the reduplicated modifier singles out a member or subset of the extension of the noun that represents a true, real, default, or prototype instance."
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The Copenhagen School is a group of scholars dedicated to the study of linguistics, centered around Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) and the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen, founded by him and Viggo Brøndal (1887–1942). In the mid twentieth century the Copenhagen school was one of the most important centres of linguistic structuralism together with the Geneva School and the Prague School. In the late 20th and early 21st century the Copenhagen school has turned from a purely structural approach to linguistics to a functionalist one, Danish functional linguistics, which nonetheless incorporates many insights from the founders of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen.
The Journal of Pragmatics is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the linguistic subfield of pragmatics. It was established in 1977 by Jacob L. Mey and Hartmut Haberland. The current editors-in-chief are Anne Bezuidenhout and Andreas H. Jucker. Previous editors-in-chief include Marina Terkourafi, Michael Haugh, Neal R. Norrick and Jonathan Culpeper. According to Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 1.86.
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Alessandro Capone is an Italian linguist. He is full professor of linguistics at the University of Messina
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Felix Ameka is a linguist working on the intersection of grammar, meaning and culture. His empirical specialisation is on West-African languages. He is currently professor of Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Vitality at Leiden University and teaches in the departments of Linguistics, African Languages and cultures, and African Studies. In recognition of his pioneering work on cross-cultural semantics and his long-standing research ties with Australian universities, he was elected as a Corresponding Fellow to the Australian Academy of Humanities in 2019.
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