PUBLIKATIONEN
I. MONOGRAPHS/COLLECTIVE VOLUMES
1987 Kommunikation im anglo-karibischen Gottesdienstritual. Eine ethno-semiotische Perspektive. Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIV. Angelsächsische Sprache und Literatur. Band 171. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
1989 (and René Dirven, eds). Wheels within Wheels. Papers of the Duisburg Symposium on Pidgin and Creole Languages. Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture. Vol. 5. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
1992 (ed.). Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution. Studies in Honour of René Dirven on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday. Philadelphia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
1994 Sprachökologie und Sprachwechsel: Die deutsch-australische Sprechgemein-schaft in Canberra. Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft (DASK). Band 19. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
1994 (ed.). Language Contact and Language Conflict. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
1995 (ed.). Discrimination through Language in Africa? Perspectives on the Namibian experience. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 69. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
1996 (and René Dirven, eds). The Construal of Space in Language and Thought. Cognitive Linguistics Research 8. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
1997 (ed.) Language Choices: Conditions, constraints, and consequences. IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society, Vol. 1. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
1997 (ed.) The Cultural Context in Foreign Language Teaching. Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture. Vol. 32. Frankfurt: Lang.
2000 (and Marjolijn Verspoor, eds). Explorations in Linguistic Relativity. Series IV- Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Vol. 199. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2001 (with Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven, eds). Applied Cognitive Linguistics I: Theory and Language Acquisition. Cognitive Linguistics Research 19.1. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2001 (with Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven, eds). Applied Cognitive Linguistics II: Language Pedagogy. Cognitive Linguistics Research 19.2. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2003 (with René Dirven and Roslyn M. Frank, eds). Cognitive Models in Language and Thought: Ideology, Metaphors and Meanings. Cognitive Linguistics Research 24. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2004 (with JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer and Teun A. van Dijk, eds). Communicating Ideologies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Discourse, and Social Practice. Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture. Vol. 53. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
2006 (and Nancy Hornberger, eds). Language Loyalty, Language Planning and Language Revitalization: Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman. Festschrift for Joshua A. Fishman on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday. Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 59. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
2006 (with Joshua A. Fishman and JoAnne Neff – van Aertselaer, eds). ‘Along the Routes to Power’. Explorations of Empowerment through Language. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 92. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2008 (and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer, eds). Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Studies on Language Acquisition 31 (SOLA). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
2010 (and Laura Sicola, eds). Cognitive Processing in Second Language Acquisition: Inside the learner's mind. Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research. Vol. 13. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2012 (with Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif, eds). Cognitve Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use. Special Issue. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10-2. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2013 (with Monika Reif and Justyna A. Robinson, eds). Variation in Language and Language Use: Linguistic, socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives. Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture. Vol. 96. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
2014 (with Justyna A. Robinson and Monika Reif, eds). Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and cultural variation in cognition and language use. Benjamins Current Topics 59. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2014 (and Luna Filipović, eds). Multilingual Cognition and Language Use. Processing and typological perspectives. Human Cognitive Processing (HCP). Vol. 44. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2016 (and Neele Mundt, eds). Vanishing Languages in Context. Ideological, Attitudinal and Social Identity Perspectives. Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture, Vol. 114. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
2016 (and Luna Filipović, eds). Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger. Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights. IMPACT Studies in Language and Society 42. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2019 (and Neele Mundt, eds). Expanding the Linguistic Landscape. Linguistic diversity, multimodality and the use of space as a semiotic resource. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
II. Articles IN JOURNALS/COLLECTIVE VOLUMES
1987 ‘And they began to speak with other tongues’. Das Phänomen der Glossolalie aus ethnosemiotischer Sicht. Duisburg: Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg. Series B, No. 178: 1-34.
1987 British Jamaican English: Beschreibung und Analyse im situationsspezifischen Kontext. Duisburg: Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg. Series B, No. 179: 1-62.
1988 Dekreolisierungsphänomene im Jamaican Creole. In: Spillner, Bernd (Hrsg.) Angewandte Linguistik und Computer. Kongressbeiträge zur 18. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL). Tübingen: Narr, 179-182.
1989 (and René Dirven). Introduction. Pidgins and creoles as 'Wheels within Wheels'. In: Pütz, Martin and René Dirven (eds). Wheels within Wheels. Papers of the Duisburg Symposium on Pidgin and Creole Languages. Frankfurt: Lang, 1-9.
1989 British Jamaican English: The impact of ideology. In: Pütz, Martin and René Dirven (eds). Wheels within Wheels. Papers of the Duisburg Symposium on Pidgin and Creole Languages. Frankfurt: Lang, 179-206.
1990 Bibliography of Australian English. Duisburg: Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg, Series B: Applied Linguistics, No. 282.
1990 Die soziale Bedeutung des Schweigens oder Nicht-Schweigens im anglo-karibischen Gottesdienstritual. In: Schmitz, Ulrich (Hrsg.). Schweigen. Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie 42. Hannover: OBST, 102-115.
1990 Code-switching im Sprachgebrauch deutscher Einwanderer in Canberra. In: Spillner, Bernd (Hrsg.). Interkulturelle Kommunikation. Kongressbeiträge zur 20. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL). Tübingen: Narr, 162-163.
1991 Convergence and code-switching in Canberra. In: Network on Code-switching and Language Contact. Papers for the Symposium on Code-switching in Bilingual Studies: Theory, Significance and Perspectives, Barcelona, 21-23 March 1991. Strasbourg: European Science Foundation, 553-557.
1991 ‘Südwesterdeutsch’ in Namibia: Sprachpolitik, Sprachplanung und Spracherhalt. Linguistische Berichte 136: 455-476.
1992 Language maintenance and language shift in the speech behaviour of German-Australian migrants in Canberra. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. Vol. 12-5: 1-16.
1992 The present and future maintenance of German in the context of Namibia's official language policy. Multilingua. Vol. 11-3: 293-323.
1992 Introduction. In: Pütz, Martin (ed.). Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, xxxviii-lvii.
1993 The phenomenon of glossolalia seen from an ethnosemiotic point of view. In: Dutton, Thomas; Ross, Malcolm and Darrell Tryon (eds). The Language Game. Canberra: The Australian National University. Pacific Linguistics, Series C-110, 345-352.
1993 (and René Dirven). Sprachkonflikte: Versuch einer Typologie. Duisburg: Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg, Series B 242, 1-20.
1993 (and René Dirven). Intercultural communication. State-of-the-art article. Language Teaching. The international abstracting journal for language teachers and applied linguists 26: 144-156.
1993 Bilinguale Sprecherstrategien: Code-switching, Integration und ad-hoc Entlehnungen. In: Eichinger, Ludwig und Joachim Raith (Hrsg.). Sprachkontakte. Konstanten und Variablen. Essen: Brockmeyer, 181-195.
1994 Intercultural communication. State-of-the-art article. In: Pürschel, Heiner et al. (eds). Intercultural Communication. Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft (DASK), Vol. 20. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1-32.
1994 Introduction. In: Pütz, Martin (ed.). Language Contact and Language Conflict. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, xi-xv.
1995 Language and colonialism in Africa: An introduction. In: Pütz, Martin (ed.). Discrimination through Language in Africa? Perspectives on the Namibian Experience. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1-8.
1995 Official monolingualism in Africa: A sociolinguistic assessment of linguistic and cultural pluralism in Namibia. In: Pütz, Martin (ed.). Discrimination through Language in Africa? Perspectives on the Namibian Experience. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 155-175.
1995 Attitudes and language: An empirical investigation into the status and use of English in Namibia. In: Pütz, Martin (ed.). Discrimination through Language in Africa? Perspectives on the Namibian experience. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 245-285.
1996 Einleitung: Authentizität und technologischer Fortschritt: Die Integrationsfunktion von Sprache und Literatur. In: Meyns, Peter (Hrsg.). Staat und Gesellschaft in Afrika. Erosions- und Reformprozesse. Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 206-208.
1996 (and René Dirven). Sprachkonflikt. In: Goebl, Hans; Peter H. Nelde; Zdenek Stary & Wolfgang Wölck (Hrsg.). Kontaktlinguistik, Contact Linguistics, Linguistique de Contact. Internationales Handbuch zeitgenössischer Forschung, International Handbook of Contemporary Research. Manuel international des recherches contemporaires. 1. Halbband/Volume 1/Tome 1. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 684-691.
1996 Introduction: Language and the cognitive construal of space. In: Pütz, Martin and René Dirven (eds). The Construal of Space in Language and Thought. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, xi-xxiii.
1996 Adjectives, relative clauses and of-constructions: A cognitive perspective. Series A: General & Theoretical. Paper No. 399. Duisburg: Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg, 1-32.
1997 Language choices: Contact and conflict? Introduction. In: Pütz, Martin (ed.). Language Choices: Conditions, Constraints, and Consequences. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, ix-xx.
1997 Kognitive Linguistik und Fremdsprachenerwerb: Kategorisierung, Ikonismus und Komplementsätze im Englischen. Series B: Applied & Interdisciplinary Papers. Paper No. 280. Duisburg: Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg, 1-29.
1997 Englisch in Afrika: Eine kritische Betrachtung der sprachpolitischen Situation. In: Moelleken, Wolfgang W. & Peter J. Weber (eds). Neue Forschungsarbeiten zur Kontaktlinguistik. Bonn: Dümmler, 418-427.
1997 The notion of function in a cognitive approach to English grammar. In: Smieja, Birgit and Meike Tasch (eds). Human Contact through Language and Linguistics. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 127-146.
1997 Teaching sociolinguistics: Language and some socio-cognitive processes at work. In: Pütz, Martin (ed.). The Cultural Context in Foreign Language Teaching. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 157-183.
1998 Komplementsätze im Englischen aus Sicht der kognitiven Grammatik. Series A: General & Theoretical Papers. Paper No. 419. Duisburg: Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg, 1-30.
2000 (and Marjolijn Verspoor). Introduction. In: Pütz, Martin and Marjolijn Verspoor (eds). Explorations in Linguistic Relativity. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, ix-xvi.
2000 Language, ideology and cognitive structures: The linguistic heritage of Namibia. In: Manczak-Wohlfeld, Elzbieta (ed.). Tradition and Postmodernity. English and American Studies and the Challenge of the Future. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 69-75.
2001 (with René Dirven and Susanne Niemeier). Introduction. In: Applied Cognitive Linguistics. Vol. 1: Theory and Language Acquisition. Cognitive Linguistics Research 19.1. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, xiii-xxiv.
2001 (with Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven, eds.). Introduction. In: Applied Cognitive Linguistics. Vol. 2: Language Pedagogy. Cognitive Linguistics Research 19.2. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, xiii-xxv.
2002 Bedeutungskonstruktion und fremdsprachendidaktische Implikationen der kognitiven Linguistik. In: Pohl, Inge (Hrsg). Prozesse der Bedeutungskonstruktion. Sprache. System und Tätigkeit. Band 40. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 375-394.
2003 (with René Dirven and Roslyn M. Frank). Introduction: Categories, cognitive models, and ideologies. In: Dirven, René; Frank, Roslyn and Martin Pütz (eds.). Cognitive Models in Language and Thought: Ideologies, Metaphors, and Meanings. Cognitive Linguistics Research 24. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1-20.
2004 (with Teun van Dijk and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer). Introduction: Language, discourse and ideology. In: Pütz, Martin; Neff–van Aertselaer, JoAnne and Teun A. van Dijk (eds). Communicating Ideologies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Discourse and Social Practice. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, xiii-xxxi.
2004 Can a ‚foreign‘ language be a national medium of education? Linguistic ecology and equality in Namibia. In: Bromber, Katrin and Birgit Smieja (eds).Globalisation and African Languages. Risks and Benefits. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 65-84.
2004 (and René Dirven). Der übergeordnete ideologische Rahmen der Sprachkonflikte weltweit. In: Bromber, Katrin and Birgit Smieja (eds). Globalisation and African Languages. Risks and Benefits. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 9-30.
2004 Sprachrepertoire / Linguistic repertoire. In: Ammon, Ulrich; Dittmar, Norbert; Mattheier, Klaus J. and Peter Trudgill (eds). Sociolinguistics /Soziolinguistik. An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. Ein internationales Handbuch zur Wissenschaft von Sprache und Gesellschaft. Volume 1/1. Teilband. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 226-232.
2005 Cognitive linguistics and language teaching/learning: Theory and applications. In: Oh, Junil (ed.). ELT at the Crossroads: 40 Years of Research, Teaching, andService. Seoul: Korea University Press, 66-73.
2005 Diskurs, Ideologie und Metaphern. Aspekte einer Kritischen Kognitiven Linguistik. In: Merten, Stephan und Inge Pohl (Hrsg). Texte, Spielräume interpretativer Näherung. Landau: Knecht, 147-170.
2006 (with Joshua A. Fishman and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer). Introduction: Along the routes to power. In: Pütz, Martin; Fishman, Joshua A. and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer (eds). ‘Along the Routes to Power’: Explorations of Empowerment through Language. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 92. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, xiii-xxi.
2006 Introduction. In: Hornberger, Nancy and Martin Pütz (eds). Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization: Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman. Festschrift for Joshua A. Fishman on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, xii-xiii.
2006 (and Nancy Hornberger). An interview with Joshua A. Fishman. In: Hornberger, Nancy and Martin Pütz (eds). Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization: Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman. Festschrift for Joshua A. Fishman on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1-25.
2007 The dynamics of language policy in Namibia: A view from cognitive sociolinguistics. In: van der Walt, Christa (ed.). Living Through Languages: An African Tribute to René Dirven. Stellenbosch: SUN Press, 91-113.
2007 Cognitive linguistics and applied linguistics. In: Geeraerts, Dirk and Hubert Cuyckens (eds). Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1139-1159.
2007 (and René Dirven). Language conflict seen from the perspective of the rationalist and romantic models: New developments. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 25(3): 303-317.
2008 (and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer, eds). Introduction: Developing contrastive pragmatics. In: Pütz, Martin and JoAnne Neff-van Aertselaer (eds). Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Studies on Language Acquisition 31 (SOLA). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, ix-xviii.
2008 (and René Dirven). Language conflict seen from the viewpoint of the rationalist and romantic models. In: Simo Bobda, Augustin (ed.). Explorations into Language Use in Africa. Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture. Vol. 70. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 11-28.
2008 (and Herbert Igboanusi). The future of French in Nigeria’s language policies. Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development. 29: 3, 235-259.
2009 Kognitive Soziolinguistik: Sprache, Kognition und soziale Wirklichkeit. In: Bachmann-Stein, Andrea; Merten, Stephan und Christine Roth (Hrgs.). Perspektiven aus Wort, Satz und Text. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 181-192.
2010 (and Laura Sicola). Introduction: Cognitive processing in second language acquisition. In: Pütz, Martin and Laura Sicola (eds). Cognitive Processing in Second Language Acquisition. Inside the learner's mind. Amsterdam/Phila-delphia: Benjamins, 1-6.
2012 (with Justyna Robinson and Monika Reif). The emergence of Cognitive Sociolinguistics: An introduction. In: Pütz, Martin; Robinson, Justyna and Monika Reif (eds). Cognitve Sociolinguistics: Social and Cultural Variation in Cognition and Language Use. Special Issue Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10-2, 241-263.
2013 (with Monika Reif and Justyna Robinson). Introduction. In: Reif, Monika; Robinson, Justyna and Martin Pütz (eds.).Variation in Language and Language Use: Linguistic, Socio-cultural and Cognitive Perspectives. Frankfurt/M.: Lang, 1-11.
2013 Die linguistische Agentur LAUD. Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Perspektiven. In: Cölfen, Hermann und Patrick Voßkamp (Hrsg.). Unterwegs mit Sprache. Beiträge zur gesellschaftlichen und wissenschaftlichen Relevanz der Linguistik. Ulrich Schmitz zum 65. Geburtstag. Duisburg: Universitätsverlag Rhein-Ruhr, 107-124.
2013 (und René Dirven). Globalisierung und Sprachplanungsmodelle aus Sicht der Kognitiven Soziolinguistik: Fallstudie Namibia. In: Schneider-Wiejowski, Karina; Kellermeier-Rehbein, Birte und Jakob Haselhuber (Hrsg.). Vielfalt, Variation und Stellung der deutschen Sprache. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 325-348.
2014 (and Luna Filipović). Foreword. Multilingual cognition and language use. In: Filipović, Luna & Martin Pütz (eds). Multilingual Cognition and Language Use. Processing and Typological Perspectives. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, ix-x.
2014 (and Luna Filipović). Understanding multilingualism: Interdisciplinary trends – past, present, and future. In: Filipović, Luna & Martin Pütz (eds). Multilingual Cognition and Language Use. Processing and Typological Perspectives. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1-16.
2014 Peter Wagner-Appreciating a scholar, colleague and friend. In: Müller, Anja; Hescher, Achim and Anke Uebel (eds). Representing Restoration, Enlightenment and Romanticism. Festschrift for Peter Wagner. Trier: WTV, ix-xiv.
2016 (and Neele Mundt). Introduction: Vanishing languages in context. In: Pütz, Martin and Neele Mundt (eds). Vanishing Languages in Context. Ideological, Attitudinal and Social Identity Perspectives. Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture. Vol. 114. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 9-17.
2016 (and Luna Filipović). Introduction: Endangered languages and languages in danger. In: Filipović, Luna & Martin Pütz (eds). Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger. Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1-24.
2016 (and Lillian Tokula). Emotion concepts in Igala language (Nigeria): A view from NSM theory. In: Atindogbé, Gratien & Evelyn Chibaka Fogwe (eds). Proceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012. Vol. 2. Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG, 948-976.
2019 (and Neele Mundt). Multilingualism, multimodality and methodology: Linguistic Landscape research in the context of assemblages, ideologies and (in)visibility: An introduction. In: Pütz, Martin & Neele Mundt (eds). Expanding the Linguistic Landscape. Linguistic Diversity, Multimodality and the Use of Space as a Semiotic Resource. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 1-22.
2020 Exploring the linguistic landscape of Cameroon: Reflections on language policy and ideology. Guest Editors Magdalena Bilá and Svetlana C. Ivanova (eds). Special Issue Language, Culture and Ideology in Discursive Practices. In: Russian Journal of Linguistics. Vol. 24(2): 294-324.
III. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS AND ADVISORY FUNCTIONS
1989-2020: Co-editor (with UlrichAmmon and René Dirven) of book series Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
1998 – 2014. Member of the Board of Consulting Editors and Review Editor of the journal Cognitive Linguistics (Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter)
since 1999. Member of the Advisory Board of book series Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins)
2000 – 2014. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board and Review Editor of the journal Current Issues in Language Planning (London/New York: Routledge)
since 2004. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (Clevedon: Multilingual Matters)
since 2006. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Intercultural Pragmatics (Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter)
since 2007. Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Languages in Nigeria (Ibadan: University of Ibadan Publishing Press)
since 2012. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Cognitive Linguistic Studies. (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins)
since 2014. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Russian Journal of Linguistics (Moscow: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia)
since 2017. Member of the Editorial Board of the journal LINGUA: An International Review of General Linguistics (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Elsevier)
1974-1981 Studied English, French, Spanish and Education at University of Trier
1978/79 Assistant Teacher of German at CES Rabelais Tours ( France)
1978/79 Studied French linguistics at Université de Tours ( France)
1980 Research stay at University of Reading ( England)
1981 First State Examination (Teacher’s certificate) English and French, University of Trier
1982 Part-time lectureship, University of Trier
1982 Master of Arts (MA) in English, French and Spanish Linguistics, University of Trier
1982/83 Graduate studies (University grant) at University of Oxford, Jesus College (GB)
1983/84 Graduate studies (DAAD grant) at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA)
1984 Research stay (library) at University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston ( Jamaica)
1984/85 Research assistant (Media Studies), University of Trier
1985-1987 PhD grant by “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”
1987 PhD (Dr. phil.) in English linguistics, University of Duisburg
1987-1997 Assistant Professor (non-tenured), University of Duisburg
1987-1993: Hochschulassistent
1993-1997: Oberassistent
1988/89 Postdoctoral Research Grant by German Research Foundation (DFG), Australian National University (Canberra)
1990 Postdoctoral Research Grant by German Research Foundation (DFG), University of Namibia (Windhoek)
1991 Postdoctoral Research Grant by Heinrich-Hertz-Stiftung (Northrhine-Westfalia), Australian National University (Canberra)
1992 Bennigsen-Foerder Prize by Ministry of Education and Culture (Northrhine-Westfalia)
1993 Postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) and Venia Legendi (Dr. habil.) in English linguistics
1993/94 Associate Professor (non-tenured), University of Düsseldorf
1995-1997 Full Professor (non-tenured), University of Greifswald
1997 Full Professor (non-tenured), University of Duisburg
1997/98 Universitair Docent, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
since 1998 Full Professor (tenured) of English Linguistics, University of Koblenz-Landau (Landau Campus)
2004-2007 External Examiner, University of Hong Kong
2009, 2011, 2012 Visiting Professor University of Hong Kong
2009, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2019 Visiting Professor University of Botswana (DAAD)
2013 Visiting Professor University of Buea, Cameroon (DAAD)
2016 Visiting Professor University of Yaoundé, Cameroon
04/2021: Retired from Chair
Major administrative functions (Landau Campus)
Since 1999: Chair Ständiger Prüfungsausschuss MA studies
2003-2008 and 2011-2014: Elected Council Member, Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences
2009 - 2015: Director of Language Laboratory
2000 - 2003 / 2008 - 2011 / 2014 - 2016 / 2018 - 2020: Head of the English Department
Editorial Board Memberships
1998 - 2014: Board of Consulting Editors and Review Editor of the journal Cognitive Linguistics (Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/ New York)
since 1999: Advisory Board of Book Series Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research (John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia)
2000 - 2014: Editorial Advisory Board and Review Editor of the journal Current Issues in Language Planning (Routledge: London/New York)
since 2004: Editorial Board of the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (Multilingual Matters: Clevedon)
since 2006: Editorial Board of the journal Intercultural Pragmatics (Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin/ New York)
since 2007: Advisory Board of the journal Languages in Nigeria (University of Ibadan Publishing Press)
since 2012: Cognitive Linguistic Studies. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins
since 2014: Editorial Board of Russian Journal of Linguistics (Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia: Moscow)
since 2017: Editorial Board of the journal LINGUA: An International Review of General Linguistics (Amsterdam: Elsevier)
Student and Faculty Exchange Programs (initiated and signed)
2000 St. Francis Xavier University of Antigonish (Canada)
2001 University of Kemerovo (Russia)
2002 University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
2002 University of Gdansk (Poland)
2002 Jagiellonian University of Kraków (Poland)
2005 University of Czestochowa (Poland)
2005 University of Arizona (Tucson, USA); faculty exchange only
2005 University of Botswana (Gaborone), sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2006 University of Hong Kong, sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2013 Education University of Hong Kong (China)
International LAUD Symposia organized: (until 1998 jointly with René Dirven)
LAUD = Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg
http://www.uni-landau.de/anglistik/LAUD/proceedings.htm
1987
16th LAUD Symposium (Duisburg)
“Pidgin and Creole Languages”
1988
17th LAUD Symposium (Duisburg)
“Linguistic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence”
1989
18th LAUD-Symposium (Duisburg)
“Cognitive Linguistics”
1990
19th LAUD-Symposium (Duisburg)
“Diachrony within Synchrony: Historical Linguistics”
1991
20th LAUD-Symposium (Duisburg)
“Reference in Language”
1992
21st LAUD-Symposium (Duisburg)
“Intercultural Communication”
1993
22nd LAUD-Symposium (Duisburg)
“The Lexicon”
1994
23rd LAUD-Symposium (Duisburg)
“Language and Space”
1995
24th LAUD-Symposium (Duisburg)
“Language Contact and Language Conflict”
1996
25th LAUD-Symposium (Duisburg)
“The Cultural Context in Foreign Language “Teaching and Business Communication””
1997
26th LAUD-Symposium (Duisburg)
“Lover, Shepherd, Father?: Metaphor and Religion”
1998
27th LAUD Symposium (Duisburg)
“Humboldt and Whorf Revisited: Universal and Culture-Specific Conceptualizations in Grammar and Lexis”
2000
28th LAUD Symposium (Landau)
“Applied Cognitive Linguistics: Theory, Acquisition, and Language Pedagogy”
2002
29th LAUD Symposium (Landau)
“The Language of Politico-Social Ideologies”
2004
30th LAUD Symposium (Landau)
“Empowerment through Language”
2006
31st LAUD Symposium (Landau)
“Intercultural Pragmatics: Linguistic, Socio-cultural and Cognitive Perspectives”
2008
32nd LAUD Symposium (Landau)
“Cognitive Approaches to Second/Foreign Language Processing: Theory and Practice”
2010
33rd LAUD Symposium (Landau)
“Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language variation in its structural, conceptual and cultural dimensions”
2012
35th LAUD Symposium (Landau)
“Cognitive Psycholinguistics: Bilingualism, Cognition & Communication”
2014
36th LAUD Symposium (Landau)
“Endangerment of Languages across the Planet: The Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity and Globalization”
2016
37th LAUD Symposium (Landau)
“Linguistic Landscapes and Superdiversity in the City”
2018
38th LAUD Symposium (Landau)
"Cultural Linguistics: Current and emerging trends in research on language and cultural conceptualisations"