ANGLISTIK III: ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
Prof. Dr. Dieter Stein
Contact
E-Mail: stein (at) phil.uni-duesseldorf.de
Phone: +49 211 81-12963
Fax: +49 211 81-15292
Curriculum Vitae
A native of the Saarland/Germany |
Degrees ("Staatsexamen") in English and Geography, University of Saarbrücken (1972) |
PhD in English Linguistics at University of Saarbrücken (1975) |
Habilitation at Technische Universität Aachen (1982) |
Positions held
Research Position in Sonderforschungsbereich 100 funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) "Elektronische Sprachforschung" (1972 - 1975) |
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Department of Translation and Interpretation. University of Heidelberg (1975-1982) |
Professor for English Language and Linguistics (Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics) at Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen (1982 - 1990) |
Professor for English Language and Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (1990) |
Several terms as Chairman and Dean |
Invited Scholar
Department of Linguistics, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) |
Dept. of English, University of British Columbia, Vancouver |
Teaching
Universities of Naples (European Masters Program), Milwaukee (Dept. Linguistics), Madison (Depts. of English and Linguistics), UBC Vancouver (English Dept.), Visiting Scholar UCLA (English Dept.), Heidelberg, Gießen, Düsseldorf, Alicante, International Summer School of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft at University of Göttingen.
Current Research Interests
Language and Communication in the Internet, Linguistics of Hypertext |
Professional Communication in English |
Language and Law |
Language development (change in the individual, change in the language, acquisition, attrition) |
Syntactic variation and meaning |
Editorial Activities
Member of the editorial board of "Language@Internet" (http://www.languageatinternet.de/) and "Constructions" (http://www.constructions-online.de) |
Editor-in-chief of the Linguistic Society of America's digital publication portal "eLanguage" (http://elanguage.net) |
Supervised PhDs
Conferences organized
Organization of a number of international conferences, including the 13th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Düsseldorf, 1997), the Colloquium on "Subjectivity and Subjectivisation in Language" (St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, UK, 1992), Colloquium on "Syntax and Varieties: the Syntax of Dialects and Standard Languages" (Düsseldorf, 1995), Joint Linguistic Summer School by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft and the Linguistic Society of America at Düsseldorf on "Formal and Functional Linguistics" (2002), English in the Internet: Language, text, discourse. Panel at the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE), UBC Vancouver 2004, Panel on "Language in the Internet: more spoken, more written, or a third kind?" International Conference on Pragmatics, Toronto, Canada, 2001 and an International Conference on Language and Law, together with UCLA and Duesseldorf University Law Schools (2006) at Düsseldorf. Conference director of the Berlin 6 Open Access conference (2008).
Selected Publications
Books
2010 | Text and Meaning: Literary Discourse and Beyond. (ed., together with Richard Begam). Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press. |
2010 | Towards Open Access Scholarship. Selected Papers from the Berlin 6 Conference. (ed., with Cornelius Puschmann). Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press / DUP. |
2009 | Genres in the Internet. (ed., with Janet Giltrow). John Benjamins. |
2009 | Translation Issues in Language and Law. (ed., with Frances Olsen and Alexander Lorz). Palgrave Macmillan. |
2008 | Law and Language: Theory and Society. (ed., with Frances Olsen and Alexander Lorz). Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press. |
2006 | Language@Internet Special Volume 1. (ed., with Bonnie Ben-Israel and Marsha Bensoussan), |
2000 | Pathways of Change. Grammaticalization in English. Ed., mit Olga Fischer und Anette Rosenbach. Amsterdam: Benjamins |
1998 | Historical Linguistics 1997. (ed., mit Monika Schmid und Jennifer Austin). Amsterdam: Benjamins. |
1997 | Taming the vernacular. From dialect to written standard language. (ed., mit Jennifer Cheshire). London: Longman |
1995 | Subjectivity and subjectivization. (ed. mit Susan Wright). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press |
1994 | Towards a Standard English 1600-1800. (ed., mit Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, Leiden |
1992 |
Co-operating with texts: the pragmatics and comprehension of written discourse. (ed.) Selected papers from the conference on the pragmatics and comprehension of written discourse, Gießen, Schloß Rauischholzhausen, Sept.89. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter
Internal and external factors in syntactic change. Papers from the workshop on internal and external factors in syntactic change, International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, August 1989, (ed., mit M. Gerritsen). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter |
1990 | The semantics of syntactic change. Stylistic, natural, and varietal factors in the development of English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. |
Selected Articles
2010 | "Weltsprache Englisch: Dominanz und Beherrschung. Oder: ein bisschen Englisch können viele." |
2006 | "The website as a domain-specific genre." language@internet SV1-6/2006
"Language and Internet. Email, Internet, Chatroom Talk: Pragmatics." Brown, Keith (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language And Linguistics, 2nd Edition. 116-124. |
2005 | "Distanz und Nähe in Internetkommunikation." Chat-kommunikation in Beruf, Bildung und Medien. 339-347.
"The role of language ideologies in linguistic theory, practice and folklore ideas." Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages. 188- 204. |
2004 | "Internet Chat and Conversation: a case of transmedial stability?" Linguistics 42.5. 983-1021. |
2003 | "Pronominal Usage in Shakespeare: between sociolinguistics and conversational analysis." Terms of address in Germanic Languages. 251-308. |
1999 | "On the history of inversion in English." IJGLSA 4,1. 37-60.
"Sprachveränderung durch das Internet? Die Sprache neu verstehen." Message - Fachzeitschrift für Journalismus 1/99. |
1996 | "Sprache und Subjektivität. (mit Monika S. Schmid)." Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik, 26/102. 97-113.
"Bedeutungsgleichheit (oder nicht) in der Syntax als Problem beim Übersetzen." Linguistik und Literaturübersetzen. 103-119. |
1995 | "Functional renewal in the history of English syntax (mit L. Brinton)." Historical Linguistics. 33-47. |
1989 | "Markedness and linguistic change." Markedness in Synchrony and Diachrony. 67-86. |
1988 | "On the linguistics of early Congregational Puritanism: verb morphology in the Letters from New England (1629-1638)." Papers on Language and Mediaeval Studies. 271-284.
"Semantic similarity between categories as a vehicle of linguistic change." Diachronica V:1. 1-20. |
1987 | "At the crossroads of philology, linguistics and semiotics: notes on the replacement of th by s in the third person singular in English." English Studies 68/5. 406-432. |
1985 | "Discourse Markers in Early Modern English." Internat. Conference on Engl. Hist. Linguistics. 283-302. |
Feline wellness: The cat on the cold stone table. Tom cat Willy, the sixth family member.