Gerhard Leitner
Biographic Data
| ID | 104306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerhard Leitner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerhard |
| FAMILY NAME | Leitner |
| SIGNATURE | LEITNER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3084-0727 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
World Englishes and second language acquisition
Arabic in contact with English in Asia
Arabic has a long history of contact with languages outside the Middle East (Lapidus, 2015; Beg, 1979). In Asia, the spread of Arabic began with the trade network that connected the Middle East with South Asia, South-East, East Asia and East Africa from the fifth century. It intensified with the rise of Islam from the seventh century onwards (Morgan & Reid, 2010; Azirah & Leitner, 2016). In this paper we investigate the impact of Arabic on today'…
Transforming Southeast Asian language habitats
Southeast Asia is marked by high levels of diversity that carry over into its linguistic habitats. Located at sea routes that connect East Asia, East Africa, the Middle East and Europe, it was a part of major trade network between the 7th and 17th centuries and a geo‐political hub that enabled the exchange of political systems and power, goods and services, cultures and religions, languages and people. Its language habitats were marked by high le…
Contact expressions in contemporary Malaysian English
Language contact touches on theoretical, descriptive and applied linguistics. Typically research into lexical contact outcomes tended to be accumulative, collecting contact effects, whether old or recent, on the assumption that they are all relevant today. Their currency or demise or, in the case of recent formations, their increasing currency and spread are under-researched. Such themes are crucial in multilingual, multi-cultural and multi-relig…
Die Aborigines Australiens
Auf der Grundlage der neuesten Forschung vermittelt dieses Buch einen Überblick über die Geschichte der Aborigines von der Urzeit bis heute. Im Mittelpunkt stehen zwei Bereiche: zum einen die materielle, geistige, künstlerische und religiöse Kultur vor und seit der Kolonisation, zum anderen politische Themen, die sich durch die Kolonisation und besonders in den letzten Jahrzehnten ergeben haben. Das Buch ist kein Archiv der Vergangenheit, sondern…
The Aboriginal contribution to Australia’s language habitat
The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages
The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian languages and the social contexts in which they are used. There is, however, no integrative reader that is easily accessible to the non-specialist in a…
Beyond Mitchell's Views on the History of Australian English
Research on Australian English, as on new varieties of English generally, has been concerned with these questions: (i) where did the input come from, especially from which region in Great Britain and Ireland; (ii) when did the English transplanted acquire distinct features; and (iii) what was the formative role of social or other layers of the population in stratifying the new variety? However, research assumes without much discussion that new va…
Australia's Many Voices, Teil 2, Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and Migrant Languages
Australia's Englishes, its indigenous, migrant and contact languages and wide-ranging language policies are well-known. Based on extensive research, Census and other data, this book develops a comprehensive and integrative approach to Australia's language habitat and the transformation of the indigenous habitats since colonization. Linking social history, linguistic development and political and educational perspectives of language policy and pla…
Lexical Frequencies in a 300 Million Word Corpus of Australian Newspapers. Analysis and Interpretation
Corpus linguistics, descriptive, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics use corpora and generalise their findings beyond the samples contained in them. That raises the problem of the representativity of the data base and of the application of methods for the presentation of findings. Although this paper originated in the context of the pluricentricity of English in the lexis of mainstream Australian English (mAusE), it was inspired by the curren…
Aboriginal words and concepts in Australian English
Pluricentric English is caught between the two complementary processes of nativization and homogenization. The former favours the adoption of local expressions and norms, the latter the maintenance of features from the old heritage or from other dominant varieties. The process of the nativization of English may originate in and be enhanced by contact with other languages, resulting in a specific variety which serves to express and to constitute a…
What do you do with a ball in soccer?’– medium, mode, and pluricentricity in succer reporting 1
Variation studies on Englishes are slowly shifting towards the investigation of contextual parameters as avenues of pluricentric development. The role of media languages, in particular across media types and outlets, is often overlooked. This paper combines contextual parameters with media language studies. The focus is on only one segment: the sports domain, in the print and broadcast media in British, Indian and Ghanaian English. Exploiting ICE…
Jean Harkins, Bridging Two Worlds. Aboriginal English and Crosscultural Understanding
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New Directions in English Language Corpora
Europe 1992
Europa 1992: eine sprachliche Perspektive Die Europaische Gemeinschaft praktiziert seit ihrer Griindung im Jahre 1952 eine föderalistische Sprachformel. Der Druck hin zu einer (mehr) zentralistischen, hegemonialen Praxis ist allerdings sehr stark. Abgesehen von den enormen Kosten, die die fôderalistische Formel nach sich zieht, ist sie nicht voll im Einklang mit den Erziehungssystemen, d.h. Mitgliedstaaten, den Einstellungen der öffentlichkeit un…
Reference Grammars and Modern Linguistic Theory
Towards a History of English Studies in Europe
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Australian English or English in Australia — Linguistic Identity or Dependence in Broadcast Language
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Indian English
Aboriginal words and concepts in Australian English
Pluricentric English is caught between the two complementary processes of nativization and homogenization. The former favours the adoption of local expressions and norms, the latter the maintenance of features from the old heritage or from other dominant varieties. The process of the nativization of English may originate in and be enhanced by contact with other languages, resulting in a specific variety which serves to express and to constitute a…
The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages
The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian languages and the social contexts in which they are used. There is, however, no integrative reader that is easily accessible to the non-specialist in a…
Europe 1992
Europa 1992: eine sprachliche Perspektive Die Europaische Gemeinschaft praktiziert seit ihrer Griindung im Jahre 1952 eine föderalistische Sprachformel. Der Druck hin zu einer (mehr) zentralistischen, hegemonialen Praxis ist allerdings sehr stark. Abgesehen von den enormen Kosten, die die fôderalistische Formel nach sich zieht, ist sie nicht voll im Einklang mit den Erziehungssystemen, d.h. Mitgliedstaaten, den Einstellungen der öffentlichkeit un…
Contact expressions in contemporary Malaysian English
Language contact touches on theoretical, descriptive and applied linguistics. Typically research into lexical contact outcomes tended to be accumulative, collecting contact effects, whether old or recent, on the assumption that they are all relevant today. Their currency or demise or, in the case of recent formations, their increasing currency and spread are under-researched. Such themes are crucial in multilingual, multi-cultural and multi-relig…
Lexical Frequencies in a 300 Million Word Corpus of Australian Newspapers. Analysis and Interpretation
Corpus linguistics, descriptive, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics use corpora and generalise their findings beyond the samples contained in them. That raises the problem of the representativity of the data base and of the application of methods for the presentation of findings. Although this paper originated in the context of the pluricentricity of English in the lexis of mainstream Australian English (mAusE), it was inspired by the curren…
Beyond Mitchell's Views on the History of Australian English
Research on Australian English, as on new varieties of English generally, has been concerned with these questions: (i) where did the input come from, especially from which region in Great Britain and Ireland; (ii) when did the English transplanted acquire distinct features; and (iii) what was the formative role of social or other layers of the population in stratifying the new variety? However, research assumes without much discussion that new va…
Australia's Many Voices, Teil 2, Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and Migrant Languages
Australia's Englishes, its indigenous, migrant and contact languages and wide-ranging language policies are well-known. Based on extensive research, Census and other data, this book develops a comprehensive and integrative approach to Australia's language habitat and the transformation of the indigenous habitats since colonization. Linking social history, linguistic development and political and educational perspectives of language policy and pla…
Indian English
Australian English or English in Australia — Linguistic Identity or Dependence in Broadcast Language
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Towards a History of English Studies in Europe
Preview this article: Towards a History of English Studies in Europe: Proceedings of the Wildsteig-Symposium, April 30- May 3, 1982. Ed. By Thomas Finkenstaedt and Gertrud Scholtes, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/hl.12.3.09lei-1.gif
Reference Grammars and Modern Linguistic Theory
Europe 1992
Europa 1992: eine sprachliche Perspektive Die Europaische Gemeinschaft praktiziert seit ihrer Griindung im Jahre 1952 eine föderalistische Sprachformel. Der Druck hin zu einer (mehr) zentralistischen, hegemonialen Praxis ist allerdings sehr stark. Abgesehen von den enormen Kosten, die die fôderalistische Formel nach sich zieht, ist sie nicht voll im Einklang mit den Erziehungssystemen, d.h. Mitgliedstaaten, den Einstellungen der öffentlichkeit un…
New Directions in English Language Corpora
What do you do with a ball in soccer?’– medium, mode, and pluricentricity in succer reporting 1
Variation studies on Englishes are slowly shifting towards the investigation of contextual parameters as avenues of pluricentric development. The role of media languages, in particular across media types and outlets, is often overlooked. This paper combines contextual parameters with media language studies. The focus is on only one segment: the sports domain, in the print and broadcast media in British, Indian and Ghanaian English. Exploiting ICE…
Jean Harkins, Bridging Two Worlds. Aboriginal English and Crosscultural Understanding
Preview this article: Jean Harkins, Bridging Two Worlds. Aboriginal English and Crosscultural Understanding, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/eww.17.1.10lei-1.gif
Aboriginal words and concepts in Australian English
Pluricentric English is caught between the two complementary processes of nativization and homogenization. The former favours the adoption of local expressions and norms, the latter the maintenance of features from the old heritage or from other dominant varieties. The process of the nativization of English may originate in and be enhanced by contact with other languages, resulting in a specific variety which serves to express and to constitute a…
Lexical Frequencies in a 300 Million Word Corpus of Australian Newspapers. Analysis and Interpretation
Corpus linguistics, descriptive, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics use corpora and generalise their findings beyond the samples contained in them. That raises the problem of the representativity of the data base and of the application of methods for the presentation of findings. Although this paper originated in the context of the pluricentricity of English in the lexis of mainstream Australian English (mAusE), it was inspired by the curren…
Beyond Mitchell's Views on the History of Australian English
Research on Australian English, as on new varieties of English generally, has been concerned with these questions: (i) where did the input come from, especially from which region in Great Britain and Ireland; (ii) when did the English transplanted acquire distinct features; and (iii) what was the formative role of social or other layers of the population in stratifying the new variety? However, research assumes without much discussion that new va…
Australia's Many Voices, Teil 2, Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and Migrant Languages
Australia's Englishes, its indigenous, migrant and contact languages and wide-ranging language policies are well-known. Based on extensive research, Census and other data, this book develops a comprehensive and integrative approach to Australia's language habitat and the transformation of the indigenous habitats since colonization. Linking social history, linguistic development and political and educational perspectives of language policy and pla…
The Aboriginal contribution to Australia’s language habitat
The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languages
The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian languages and the social contexts in which they are used. There is, however, no integrative reader that is easily accessible to the non-specialist in a…
Die Aborigines Australiens
Auf der Grundlage der neuesten Forschung vermittelt dieses Buch einen Überblick über die Geschichte der Aborigines von der Urzeit bis heute. Im Mittelpunkt stehen zwei Bereiche: zum einen die materielle, geistige, künstlerische und religiöse Kultur vor und seit der Kolonisation, zum anderen politische Themen, die sich durch die Kolonisation und besonders in den letzten Jahrzehnten ergeben haben. Das Buch ist kein Archiv der Vergangenheit, sondern…
Contact expressions in contemporary Malaysian English
Language contact touches on theoretical, descriptive and applied linguistics. Typically research into lexical contact outcomes tended to be accumulative, collecting contact effects, whether old or recent, on the assumption that they are all relevant today. Their currency or demise or, in the case of recent formations, their increasing currency and spread are under-researched. Such themes are crucial in multilingual, multi-cultural and multi-relig…
Transforming Southeast Asian language habitats
Southeast Asia is marked by high levels of diversity that carry over into its linguistic habitats. Located at sea routes that connect East Asia, East Africa, the Middle East and Europe, it was a part of major trade network between the 7th and 17th centuries and a geo‐political hub that enabled the exchange of political systems and power, goods and services, cultures and religions, languages and people. Its language habitats were marked by high le…
Arabic in contact with English in Asia
Arabic has a long history of contact with languages outside the Middle East (Lapidus, 2015; Beg, 1979). In Asia, the spread of Arabic began with the trade network that connected the Middle East with South Asia, South-East, East Asia and East Africa from the fifth century. It intensified with the rise of Islam from the seventh century onwards (Morgan & Reid, 2010; Azirah & Leitner, 2016). In this paper we investigate the impact of Arabic on today'…
World Englishes and second language acquisition
Linguistics (14 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · History (9 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Language contact (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works)