prof. dr. klaus p. schneider, former chair
Preferred pronouns: he/him
Former chair in Applied English Linguistics, Department of English, American and Celtic Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
Studied English, Russian and Education in Marburg, Edinburgh and Moscow; teaching degree, Ph.D. and post-doctoral degree from the University of Marburg; taught at the universities of Marburg, Hamburg and Rostock and at University College Dublin
Current research interests include variational pragmatics, pragmatic competence, perceptions of (im)politeness and (in)appropriateness, metadiscourse, practices in academic communication, language and the law, and evaluative morphology
On-going research projects include The Pragmatics of Namibian English (in cooperation with Anne Schröder, University of Bielefeld), Pragmatic Profiling, Business English in International Organisations (funded by Terry Haggerty, London)
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Pragmatics; series co-editor of the Handbooks of Pragmatics for De Gruyter Mouton (Berlin and Boston); co-editor of the book series Language in Cultural Contexts for V&R unipress/Bonn University Press (Göttingen); Member of the Irish English Research Network
Major publications include the monographs Small Talk: Analysing Phatic Discourse (Marburg: Hitzroth 1988), Diminutives in English (Tübingen: Niemeyer 2003), the co-edited volumes The Pragmatics of Irish English (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter 2005), Variational Pragmatics (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins 2008), Pragmatics of Discourse (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton 2014), Methods in Pragmatics (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton 2018), The Digital Scholar (Berlin: Frank & Timme 2020), Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Mouton 2020), and the co-edited special issues Variational Pragmatics (Intercultural Pragmatics 2009), Im/politeness across Englishes (Journal of Pragmatics 2012)
Articles in e.g. Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Sociolinguistic Studies, English World-Wide, Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistica, Anglia, edited volumes published by e.g. Benjamins, Cambridge University Press, De Gruyter Mouton, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, Springer, and Wiley
Reviewer for the journals Journal of Pragmatics, Intercultural Pragmatics, Pragmatics, Pragmatics and Society, Language in Society, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, Journal of Sociolinguistics, English World-Wide, English Language and Linguistics, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Journal of Linguistics, Morphology, and for monographs and book series by John Benjamins, Palgrave Macmillan, Wiley-Blackwell
