User:Sinatra

Joachim Grzega
www.grzega.de

born on 9 September 1971 in Weißenburg (Germany), raised in Treuchtlingen

Associate Professor at the University of Eichstätt (Germany) and Project Coordinator at Volkshochschule Donauwörth (Germany)


 * 1991-1998 studies at the universities of Eichstätt, Salt Lake City, Paris-Sorbonne, Graz
 * 2000 Dr.phil. (Ph.D.) in Romance, English and German Linguistics
 * 2004 habil.diss. in English and General Linguistics
 * interim professorships at the universities of Münster, Bayreuth, Eichstätt, Erfurt, and Freiburg

Author of over 20 books and several dozen articles

Editor of the Journal for EuroLinguistiX

Founder of the Academy for Socioeconomic Linguistics (ASEcoLi)

Important Internet Publications and Projects

 * EuroLinguistiX (ELiX) - platform with discussion forum, materials, academic journal and project wiki
 * Basic Global English (BGE), a concept for teaching English as a lingua franca to beginners, with school project
 * Onomasiology Online (OnOn)
 * Sprachwissenschaft für die Öffentlichkeit - collection og predominantly student papers for interested laypersons and teachers
 * the didactic model LdL at universities
 * the book English and General Historical Lexicology: Materials for Onomasiology Seminars (with Marion Schöner)
 * my German Wikiversity user page
 * my English Wikiversity user page

Research Interests

 * the connection between language, thought and action
 * eurolinguistics
 * onomasiology
 * public-oriented linguistics/practical linguistics, linguistics for the public
 * intelligible linguistics
 * linguistic economics/socioeconomic linguistics, linguistics and knowledge society (basic article)
 * Austrian German
 * language contacts
 * intercultural communication
 * teaching English as an international language (Basic Global English)
 * didactic issues at university (especially Learning by teaching (LdL) -- cf. my English article)

WP Articles that I've co-authored
Austrian German, Wolfgang Butzkamm (first author), componential analysis (first author), cross-cultural communication, direct method (first author), error analysis, Eurolinguistics (first author), European languages (first author), onomasiology, English as an additional language, English language, English language learning and teaching, Gricean maxims, Edward T. Hall, Dell Hymes, Hans Kurath (first author), Dean Martin, historical pragmatics (first author), homonym, intercultural communication (first author), international auxiliary language, International English, language change, language education, lexical field theory (first author), linguistic atlas, loanword, metaphor, metonymy, Leonard Orban, phatic, semantic change, semasiology, small talk (phatic communication) (first author), sociolinguistics, sociohistorical linguistics (first author), speech act, Standard Average European, teaching English as a foreign language, T-V distinction

WP Articles that I'm trying to improve in a comprehensive way
articles on Intercultural Communication

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