Edgar W. Schneider

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Edgar W. Schneider (born 30 May 1954) is a German linguist of Austrian origin. He is emeritus professor of English linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where he held the chair of English linguistics from 1993 to 2020. From 2021 to 2023 he was a visiting senior fellow at the National University of Singapore for one semester each year. He is known in World Englishes research mainly as the originator of the Dynamic Model of the evolution of Postcolonial Englishes. [1] [2]

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Education and career

Schneider was born in Kirchdorf an der Krems, Austria. He studied at University of Graz between 1972 and 1978. Later, he completed his PhD in 1981 and his habilitation in 1987 at the University of Bamberg, Germany. In 1988 he was an interim professor at the University of Trier, and in 1988/1989 an adjunct associate professor at the University of Georgia, US. In 1989 he became a full professor at the Free University of Berlin. In 1993 he took over the chair at Regensburg. [3] In Regensburg he founded the Research Center for World Englishes. Schneider was dean of studies at the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies of the University of Regensburg (2007–2009) and dean of the faculty from 2009 to 2011.

Schneider was the president of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) in 2016–2018. He edited the scholarly journal English World-Wide (Amsterdam: Benjamins) from 1997 to 2013 and its associated book series Varieties of English Around the World from 1997 to 2011. He was a co-editor of the voluminous Handbook of Varieties of English (2004) [4] and also of the Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes (2020), [5] and is the author of an introductory textbook, English Around the World (2011, 2nd ed. 2020). [6] He edits a series of short monographs for Cambridge University Press, called Elements: World Englishes.

Bibliography

Schneider's book publications include the following:

1988. Variabilität, Polysemie und Unschärfe der Wortbedeutung. Vol. 1: Theoretische und methodische Grundlagen. Vol. 2: Studien zur lexikalischen Semantik der mentalen Verben des Englischen. Tübingen: Niemeyer.

1989. American Earlier Black English. Morphological and Syntactic Variables. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press.

1996. Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data: An Atlas by the Numbers. (with W.A. Kretzschmar) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

1996. Focus on the USA. (ed.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.

1997. Englishes Around the World. Vol. 1: General Studies - British Isles - North America. Vol. 2: Caribbean - Africa - Asia - Australasia. Studies in Honour of Manfred Görlach. (ed.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.

2000. Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages. (ed., with I. Neumann-Holzschuh). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

2004. A Handbook of Varieties of English. A Multimedia Reference Tool. Vol. 1: Phonology. Vol. 2: Morphology and Syntax. (ed., with B. Kortmann, C. Upton, R. Mesthrie and K. Burridge). Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

2007. Postcolonial English: Varieties Around the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2010. TheLesser-Known Varieties of English. An Introduction. (ed., with D. Schreier, P. Trudgill, and J. Williams). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2011. English Around the World: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2nd edition 2020.

2015. Further Studies in theLesser-Known Varieties of English. (with J. Williams, D. Schreier, and P. Trudgill). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2020. The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes. (with D. Schreier and M. Hundt). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2021. World Englishes at the Grassroots. (with Ch. Meierkord) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

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References

  1. ↑ Schneider, Edgar W. (Edgar Werner) (2003). "The Dynamics of New Englishes: From Identity Construction to Dialect Birth". Language. 79 (2): 233–281. doi:10.1353/lan.2003.0136. ISSN   1535-0665. S2CID   59498182.
  2. ↑ Schneider, Edgar W. (2007). Postcolonial English: varieties around the world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-511-28593-6. OCLC   271790271.
  3. ↑ "Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider - Universität Regensburg". www.uni-regensburg.de. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  4. ↑ Edgar W. Schneider; Bernd Kortmann, eds. (2004). A handbook of varieties of English: a multimedia reference tool. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN   3-11-017532-0. OCLC   56880203.
  5. ↑ Daniel Schreier; Marianne Hundt; Edgar W. Schneider, eds. (2020). The Cambridge handbook of world Englishes. Cambridge. ISBN   978-1-108-34940-6. OCLC   1120906904.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ↑ Schneider, Edgar W. (2020). English around the world: an introduction (Second ed.). Cambridge. ISBN   978-1-108-44226-8. OCLC   1193301209.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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