Hartmut Haberland
2020
Haberland, Hartmut
Who Profits From Global English? Reply to Hultgren Journal Article
In: Nordic Journal of English Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, 2020.
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In my reply to Hultgren, I suggest introducing further aspects into the discussion of ‘global English’, like the question not only of ownership of a language but also of ownership and control of the communication channels, the problematic status of metaphors like ‘market’, the connection between global English and the narrowing of the base of available knowledge, the importance of a shared language, and the relevance of the ideology of globalism for discourses of global English.
Haberland, Hartmut
Jan Blommaert. Durkheim and the Internet: On Sociolinguistics and the Sociological Imagination Journal Article
In: Internet Pragmatics 3(1): DOI:, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 133-138, 2020.
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Haberland, Hartmut; Nash, Joshua; Bakker, Peter; Bøegh, Kristoffer Friis; Daval-Markussen, Aymeric; Kedwards, Dale; Ladhams, John; Levisen, Carsten; Markússon, Jón Símon; Robbe, Joost; Willemsen, Jeroen
On languages on islands Journal Article
In: Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 1-36, 2020.
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Islands as specific research sites in their own right have been given little direct attention by linguists. The physical segregation, distinctness, and isolation of islands from mainland and continental environments may provide scholars of language with distinct and robust sets of singular and combined case studies for examining the role of islandness in any appreciation of language. Whether distinct and particular sociolinguistic and typological phenomena can be attributable to islands and their islandness and vice versa remains unexplored. This position article considers the possibility of there being anything particular and peculiar about languages spoken on islands as compared to languages spoken on mainlands and continents. It arose out of a workshop titled ‘Exploring island languages’ held at Aarhus University, Denmark on 30 April 2018. The main question posed was: Is there anything special socially, linguistically, grammatically, and typologically about the languages of islands? If so, is it possible to talk about such a thing as an island language?
2019
Haberland, Hartmut
Review of Danesi, Marcel (2017) The Semiotics of Emoji: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet Journal Article
In: Internet Pragmatics, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 167-172, 2019.
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Haberland, Hartmut
On the limits of etymology Journal Article
In: Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 90-103, 2019.
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Using the classical example of -ize versus -ise in English as a case study, this article argues that insight into etymology, contrary to an assumption implicit in some dictionaries, cannot be of much help in guiding spelling, nor can arguments concerning spelling be meaningfully substantiated on the basis of knowledge of etymology. In building this argument, I compare the original Greek senses of -ίζω -izɔ· to the usage of this suffix when borrowed into Latin, showing how Latin language users have made creative use of elements taken from Greek, integrating them into the language-specific structure of Latin. English speakers have reinterpreted and integrated the suffix -ize/-ise in language usage and structure in similar creative ways by drawing on Greek, Latin and French, meaning that a modern English verb spelled with -ize or -ise can neither be identified as ‘Greek’, ‘Latin’ or ‘French’ by the ordinary language user. Hence, a reference to a word’s origin is not a safe guideline for deciding how it should be spelled.
Haberland, Hartmut
English as a world language in Scandinavia and elsewhere (Part 2) Journal Article
In: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, vol. 136, no. 1, pp. 25-36, 2019.
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This is the second part of a paper dealing with the concept of English as a “world” or “global language”. Here, results from two research projects conducted in Denmark are presented. They investigated the role of languages in academia and in businesses with a global perspective. Data are taken from Denmark and in part Japan. Two different narratives of English as a world language emerge.
2018
Haberland, Hartmut; Obe, Rie
Naomi Ogi, Involvement and Attitude in Japanese Discourse: Interactive Markers. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2017. Pp. xii + 232. Journal Article
In: Nordic Journal of Linguistics, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 117-128, 2018.
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English as a world language in Scandinavia and elsewhere Journal Article
In: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 135(34): DOI:, vol. 135, no. 34, pp. 253-260, 2018.
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2017
Haberland, Hartmut
Review of Ammon, Ulrich (2015) The position of the German language in the world Journal Article
In: Language Problems & Language Planning, vol. 41, no. 3, 2017.
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Haberland, Hartmut; Lønsmann, Dorte; Hazel, Spencer
Introduction to Special Issue on Transience: Emerging Norms of Language Use Journal Article
In: Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 264-270, 2017.
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In this introduction to the special issue, the concept of transience is introduced as a theoretical perspective and as an object of research. The perspective of transience foregrounds the temporality of norm formation, located within the practices of people on the move. The introduction suggests that it is beneficial to apply the concept of transience in order to understand processes of norm development, including those pertaining to language choice and language socialization. Working from an understanding that communities form and dissolve, we claim that it is useful to look at these processes, as it is in the process of communities coming into being that norms emerge. Transience, in spite of being ubiquitous, is not always salient for members or analysts, but to identify, fixate and theorize it as an object of study in linguistic anthropology invites new ways of conceptualizing the interdependence of language and social structure.
2016
Haberland, Hartmut; Fabricius, Anne H; Mortensen, Janus
The lure of internationalization: paradoxical discourses of transnational student mobility, linguistic diversity and cross-cultural exchange Journal Article
In: Higher Education, pp. 577–595, 2016.
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This paper scrutinizes a set of paradoxes arising from a mismatch between contemporary discourses that praise and promote mobility in and internationalization of higher education, and the everyday effects of mobility and internationalization on university teaching and learning practice. We begin with a general characterization of the discourse of mobility and internationalization in a European context and then turn to Denmark as a specific case in which we unfold and discuss three paradoxes in turn: internationalization and linguistic pluralism, internationalization and intercultural understanding and, finally, internationalization and competitiveness. We then link our deconstruction of the three paradoxes to a critique of the concept of “parallel language policy,” widely promoted in the Nordic context, and show how it potentially undermines the ideals of internationalization.
Haberland, Hartmut; Mortensen, Janus
Transcription as Second-Order Entextualization: The Challenge of Heteroglossia Book Chapter
In: pp. 581-600, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-12615-9.
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2015
Haberland, Hartmut
Jan Leon Katlev (†2013) Journal Article
In: Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 1-3, 2015.
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abstract = {“expressing with words”, ie squeezing words out of the mouth with help of the respiratory air. exp-in Latin words can both become esp-and sp-. eg expropriare “to expropriate” becomes both espropriare and spropriare; and experimentare “to experiment, to experience” to either esperimentare or sperimentare; forms with sp-are considered more vernacular and those with esp-more latinate. With some verbs there is a certain nuance in meaning between esp-and sp-. Thus Latin expandere becomes both espandere “to expand” and spandere “to scatter, to spread”. explantare becomes both espiantare “to cultivate tissue externally” and spiantare “to uproot”. Explicare becomes both esplicare and spiegare which both mean “to explain”, but esplicare also “to perform” and spiegare also “to unfold”.},
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“expressing with words”, ie squeezing words out of the mouth with help of the respiratory air. exp-in Latin words can both become esp-and sp-. eg expropriare “to expropriate” becomes both espropriare and spropriare; and experimentare “to experiment, to experience” to either esperimentare or sperimentare; forms with sp-are considered more vernacular and those with esp-more latinate. With some verbs there is a certain nuance in meaning between esp-and sp-. Thus Latin expandere becomes both espandere “to expand” and spandere “to scatter, to spread”. explantare becomes both espiantare “to cultivate tissue externally” and spiantare “to uproot”. Explicare becomes both esplicare and spiegare which both mean “to explain”, but esplicare also “to perform” and spiegare also “to unfold”.
Haberland, Hartmut
Womit identisch? Journal Article
In: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, vol. 1, 2015.
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It is not only socially oriented linguists who regard identity as a useful umbrella term for what they teach and what they research. I myself work at an institute for culture and identity, which has given itself this name when philosophy, history, cultural studies as well as linguistics and literary studies were combined in one institute in 2006 through a university-political and administrative measure.},
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Identity is one of those terms that is so easy to put on your mouth; everyone seems to understand something by it and whoever uses it is rarely challenged to define it. We already know what we're talking about. In sociolinguistics, or to use a term developed by Bucholtz and Hall, socio-cultural language studies (2005: 586), people have become accustomed to ascribing an important role in the exploration of identity to the study of language since the 1980s. But what is identity anyway and how does language relate to it?
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It is not only socially oriented linguists who regard identity as a useful umbrella term for what they teach and what they research. I myself work at an institute for culture and identity, which has given itself this name when philosophy, history, cultural studies as well as linguistics and literary studies were combined in one institute in 2006 through a university-political and administrative measure.
2014
Haberland, Hartmut; Preisler, Bent
The position of danish, English and other languages at danish universities in the context of danish society Book Chapter
In: pp. 15-42, Multilingual Matters , 2014, ISBN: 9781783092765.
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2013
Haberland, Hartmut; Heltoft, Lars
Universals, explanations and pragmatics Book Chapter
In: pp. 17-26, 2013, ISBN: 9783110851656.
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Martin Joos suggested that languages differ in all conceivable ways and to all possible degrees (Philippaki-Warburton 1981: 181; Joos 1957: 96). The universaliste'claim is that they do not but rather that they vary"... only within certain, not necessarily logically determined or obvious limits"(Coulmas et al. 1983: 1235). The linguist's task then is" to state those limits"(ibid.). This is correct but it is only half the task. The other half is to explain those limits.
Haberland, Hartmut; Lønsmann, Dorte; Preisler, Bent
Language Alternation, Language Choice and Language Encounter in International Tertiary Education Book
Springer, 2013, ISBN: 9789400764750.
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Language Alternation, Language Choice and Language Encounter in International Tertiary Education Book Chapter
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Haberland, Hartmut
Reflections about minority languages in the European Community Book Chapter
In: pp. 179-194, De Gruyter Mouton, 2013, ISBN: 9783110877137.
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Haberland, Hartmut
ELF and the bigger picture Journal Article
In: Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, vol. 2, no. 1, 2013.
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If it is to make sense to talk about English in a global context, it would be English used as a lingua franca. English could not have become global in sce narios which only involve firstlanguage speakers.
If it is to make sense to talk about English in a global context, it would be English used as a lingua franca. English could not have become global in sce narios which only involve firstlanguage speakers.
Haberland, Hartmut; Preisler, Bent
The position of Danish and other languages in Denmark and at Danish universities Book Chapter
In: Vila, F. Xavier (Ed.): vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 314-320, Multilingual Matters, 2013.
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English as Language in high-tech Capitalism Journal Article
In: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, vol. 136, no. 1, pp. 25-36, 2013.
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2012
Haberland, Hartmut; Mortensen, Janus
Language variety, language hierarchy and language choice in the international university Journal Article
In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language, vol. 2012, no. 216, pp. 1-6, 2012.
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As the title of this introduction suggests, the articles contained in the present issue deal with various aspects of language variety, language hierarchy and language choice in the international university. The term “international university” requires—perhaps—a discussion. What we refer to as “international university” is the university as we experience it today with increased—and in some cases drastically increased—transnational student and staff mobility.
Mortensen, Janus; Haberland, Hartmut
English - The new Latin of academia? Danish universities as a case Journal Article
In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language, vol. 2012, no. 216, 2012.
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2011
Haberland, Hartmut; Heltoft, Lars
Die schwache Adjektivflexion im Dänischen und Deutschen. Eine Fingerübung in diachronischer Typologie Journal Article
In: Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 23-43, 2011.
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Haberland, Hartmut
Reported speech in Danish Book Chapter
In: pp. 219-254, De Gruyter Mouton, 2011, ISBN: 9783110871968.
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Reporting another utterance (either one's own or another person's) must come close to a universal of linguistic action. It requires quite an effort to imagine a language where this would not be possible. To begin with, we cannot exclude repetition of that other utterance (which in the following I shall call the model or model utterance), and repeating the model utterance would be a way of reporting it. One would only have to make sure that in repeating the utterance one did not repeat the original speech act (with all that this would entail), but rather that one displayed it. Still, there would be the problem of identifying that repetition: as of what it is a repetition of-whose utterance, made when, where and directed to whom. If a language has grammatical devices for those two functions, we would say that it was equipped for reporting speech.
Haberland, Hartmut
Ownership and maintenance of a language in transnational use: Should we leave our lingua franca alone? Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 937-949, 2011.
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2010
Haberland, Hartmut
Mood in Greek Book Chapter
In: pp. 473-491, John Benjamins, 2010.
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Greek is an Indo-European language spoken by some 12 million people in Greece (9.9 million) and Cyprus (0.6 million), and by significant linguistic minorities in Albania, Egypt and Italy as well as smaller ones in the Ukraine, Romania, and Turkey. It is also used by a significant number of diaspora speakers, eg in the USA (400,000), Germany (300,000), Canada (140,000), Australia (100,000) and Sweden (50,000), although for most of those speakers it is a second language. It is an official and working language of the European Union.
Greek has of all European languages the longest recorded history. The oldest written records date from the 2nd millennium BC, and the oldest literary products go back to the beginning of the Ist millenium BC, although they were written down later.
Greek has of all European languages the longest recorded history. The oldest written records date from the 2nd millennium BC, and the oldest literary products go back to the beginning of the Ist millenium BC, although they were written down later.
2009
Haberland, Hartmut
English-The Language of Globalism Journal Article
In: Healthy. International Journal of Language and Communication, pp. 17-45, 2009.
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There is considerable agreement that we live in the age of globalization. There is considerably less agreement about when this age of globalization is supposed to have begun. In his book What is globalization ?, Ulrich Beck gives several possible dates for the onset of globalization according to different theoreticians.
2008
Haberland, Hartmut; Mortensen, Janus; Fabricius, Anne; Preisler, Bent; Risager, Karen; Kjærbeck, Susanne
Higher Education in the Global Village Book
Institut for Kultur og Identitet, 2008, ISBN: 9788792024145.
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2007
Haberland, Hartmut; Lønsmann, Dorte; Hazel, Spencer
Introduction to Special Issue on Transience: Emerging Norms of Language Use Journal Article
In: Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 264-270, 2007.
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Haberland, Hartmut
Language shift in conversation as a metapragmatic comment Book Chapter
In: pp. 129 - 140, John Benjamins Publishing, 2007.
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Most of us do not just speak one language; far from being the norm, the monolingual language user is rather the exception on a global scale. Since one cannot be a speaker of more than one language without sometimes speaking in one language and sometimes in another, language alternation must be a quite common phenomenon.
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There is a vast literature about different kinds of language alternation. One strain of research has focused on language choices appropriate to a given situation. One of the points made about these language choices is that in stable multilingual communities, competent speakers usually agree which language is appropriate in a given situation. They make their choices spontaneously and without much or any negotiation. Language shift happens between speech situations and at the beginning of an encounter, and for the individual speaker, it often follows long stretches of silence. The concept of domain (Werlen 2004, but critically Haberland 2005) tries to capture the relevant conditions for this type of language choice.
2006
Haberland, Hartmut
Thetic-Categorical Distinction Journal Article
In: pp. 676 - 677, 2006.
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In the late 19th and early 20th century, there were two major attempts at overcoming the Aristotelian articulation of the clause (or 'judgment') in subject and predicate: one by Gottlob Frege, who did away with the distinction altogether, and one by Franz von Brentano and Anton Marty, who restricted the traditional subject-predicate articulation to what they called 'categorical judgments,' as opposed to 'thetic judgments,' which do not involve an act of predication about some 'psychological subject' but attribute something to a situation as a whole.
2005
Haberland, Hartmut; Preisler, Bent; Fabricius, Anne; Kjaerbeck, Susanne; Risager, Karen
The Consequences of Mobility Book
Institut for Sprog og Kultur, 2005.
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Haberland, Hartmut
Domains and domain loss Journal Article
In: The Consequences of Mobility: Linguistic and Sociocultural Contact Zones, pp. 227-237, 2005.
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2003
Haberland, Hartmut; Mey, Jacob L.
Referees 2002 Bachelor Thesis
2003.
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2002
Haberland, Hartmut; Mey, Jacob L.
Linguistics and pragmatics, 25 years after Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 34, no. 12, 2002.
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1999
Haberland, Hartmut
The Natural And The Artificial In Language And Technology11This paper is a revised version of Haberland Journal Article
In: Human Factors in Information Technology, vol. 13, pp. 81-87, 1999, ISBN: 9780444828743.
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Haberland, Hartmut
Text, discourse, discours: The latest report from the Terminology Vice Squad Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 911-918, 1999.
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1997
Haberland, Hartmut
Natural language and artificial technology-it ain't necessarily so Conference
Proceedings Second International Conference on Cognitive Technology Humanizing the Information Age, IEEE Xplore, 1997, ISBN: 0-8186-8084-9.
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1996
Haberland, Hartmut
And ye shall be as machines Or should machines be as us? On the modeling of matter and mind Journal Article
In: Advances in Psychology, vol. 113, 1996, ISBN: 9780444822758.
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Haberland, Hartmut
Cognitive Technology and Pragmatics: Analogies and (Non-)Alignments. Journal Article
In: AI & Society, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 303-308, 1996.
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Haberland, Hartmut
Communion or communication? Book Chapter
In: pp. 163-166, John Benjamins bv, 1996.
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Bronisław Malinowski, the Polish born anthropologist who came to London in 1910 and spent two years during the First World War doing fieldwork among the Trobriand islanders in what today is Papua New Guinea, has left his mark on a number of areas of scholarship. Psychoanalysts will remember his critique of the assumption of the universality of the Oedipus complex (Malinowski 1924). Anthropology is indebted to him for his study of the kula, the exchange system of two articles" of high value, but of no real use"(Malinowski 1920: 97) among the Islanders off the South Eastern tip of New Guinea. And linguists have been influenced by his insistence on the original (or'primitive') function of language as a" mode of action" and its" essentially pragmatic character"(Malinowski 1923: 316, 1972: 152). In 1923," actuated by the demon of terminological invention", he coined the term phatic communion," a type of speech in which ties of union are created by a mere exchange of words"(1923: 315, 1972: 151). Probably helped by Roman Jakobson's suggestion of a" phatic function" of language (1960: 355), the term has grown in popularity among sociolinguistically and pragmatically oriented linguists; an overview of the state of the discussion has been recently given by Pavlidou (in press). But there also seems to be a tendency to ascribe to Malinowski a term he never used, that of" phatic communication".
1994
Haberland, Hartmut; Preisler, Bent
Politeness phenomena in England and Greece: A cross-cultural perspective: Maria Sifianou, Oxford: Clarendon Press Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 227–232, 1994.
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Haberland, Hartmut; Preisler, Bent
Maria Sifianou, Politeness phenomena in England and Greece Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 22, pp. 219-237, 1994.
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1993
Haberland, Hartmut
Book notice Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 397–398, 1993.
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Haberland, Hartmut; Mey, Jacob L; Janney, Richard W
Formal pragmatics in Kobe Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. 5-7, 1993.
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“For many linguists, the term ‘pragmatics’ is chiefly associated with the discipline of formal pragmatics(mostly in the Montague tradition). Although we agree that the study of linguistic pragmatics has gained valuable insights from this work, it is not unfair to raise the question whether this approach represents an extremely sophisticated way of doing semantics, or if it constitutes a pragmatics in our definition.
“For many linguists, the term ‘pragmatics’ is chiefly associated with the discipline of formal pragmatics(mostly in the Montague tradition). Although we agree that the study of linguistic pragmatics has gained valuable insights from this work, it is not unfair to raise the question whether this approach represents an extremely sophisticated way of doing semantics, or if it constitutes a pragmatics in our definition.
1992
Haberland, Hartmut; Mey, Jacob L.; Janney, RW
Focus-on Issue - Gender Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. R5-R5, 1992.
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1991
Haberland, Hartmut; Thomsen, Ole Nedergaard
The long and winding road towards a theory of grammatical relations Journal Article
In: Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 179–206, 1991.
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The book under review (carefully edited by Frans Plank and handsomely produced by Academic Press) is all about Objects, but as its subtitle suggests, it also is about Grammatical Relations. Its publication was part of a period of extensive research and publication on typology of grammatical relations, witness to which are also two other books edited by the same scholar. 1 This period started with the publication of Dixon’s analysis of Dyirbal, an Ergative language (1972), and Klimov’s early work (in Russian) on Relational Typology. After the seminal papers by Keenan (1976) and by Li and Thompson (1976) on Subjects it was only fair that the focus for once was Subject’s opposite number.
Haberland, Hartmut; Henriksen, Carol
Dänisch eine kleine Sprache in der EG Journal Article
In: Sociolinguistica, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 85-98, 1991.
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abstract = {Korzen and Schwartz are primarily concerned with another issue, the voice of immigrant workers in Denmark, but what they say has implications for Denmark's position in the EC. Even if the designer Piet Hein, who is world-famous not only in Denmark, inventor of the super-ellipse and the Grukc, has succeeded in developing a globe on which Denmark takes its due place - larger than life - most Danes feel themselves despite all self-irony painfully and proudly aware of the fact that Denmark is a small country after all, and Danish a ^ lean * and, difficult4 language.},
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Korzen and Schwartz are primarily concerned with another issue, the voice of immigrant workers in Denmark, but what they say has implications for Denmark's position in the EC. Even if the designer Piet Hein, who is world-famous not only in Denmark, inventor of the super-ellipse and the Grukc, has succeeded in developing a globe on which Denmark takes its due place - larger than life - most Danes feel themselves despite all self-irony painfully and proudly aware of the fact that Denmark is a small country after all, and Danish a ^ lean * and, difficult4 language.