A. Current Contacts
e-mail beaugrande@beaugrande.com
website www.beaugrande.com updated November 2007
MA in German and English Language and Literature, Free University of Berlin, 1971
PhD in Comparative Literature and Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, 1976
fluent speaking (lecturing) and reading: English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
reading: Latin, Old English, Middle English, Old High German, Middle High German
D. Languages of publication
English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic
E. Areas of specialisation, research, and publication
general linguistics
applied linguistics
text linguistics
discourse analysis
critical discourse analysis
corpus linguistics
English grammar
language for special purposes
language planning
language pedagogy and teaching methods
language and literature programme development
English as a Foreign Language
English as a Second Language
technical English
business English
rhetoric and composition
translation
reading and reader response
comparative literature
literary theory
F. Courses taught
Introduction to Linguistics
Introduction to Linguistic Theory
English Grammar
Applied
Linguistics
Text Linguistics
Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis
Translation
Composition
Technical English
Business English
Introduction to Poetry
Literary Theory: Aesthetics, Formalism, Historicism, Feminism, Freudianism, Marxism, Post-Modernism, Deconstruction
G. Member of editorial boards (past and present)
Discourse Processes
Discourse Studies
Discurso y Sociedad
Empirical Studies of the Arts
English for Special Purposes
Functions of Language
POETICS
Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada
Text
Revista Brasileira de Lingüística Aplicada
H. Grant recipient
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1984-85
Ohio State University Publication Awards Program, 1977
Office of Instructional Resources Small Grants, 1982 and 1983
American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant, 1985
International Research Exchange Travel Grant, 1987
Council for the International Exchange of Scholars Grant (Fulbright-Hays), National University of Singapore, 1988-89
USIS Visiting Academic Specialist Grant, Yarmouk University, Jordan, 1992
I. Academic posts
Professor of English, University of Florida 1978-91
Professor of English, University of Vienna, 1991-97
Professor of English, University of Botswana at Gaborone,1997-99
Professor of English, University of the United Arab Emirates, Al Ain, UAE 1999-2001
Visiting Professor of English, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 2001-02
J. Guest professorships
Universität Bielefeld, Germany, 1979
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1984
Honorary Research Fellow, University College London, 1985
Summer Institute of Semiotics, Bloomington, 1985
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, 1985 and 1993
Crump Institute for Medical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 1986
National University of Singapore 1988-89
University of the Philippines, Diliman, 1989
Universität Leipzig, 1990
Universiti Sains Malaysia, 1990
University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1993
University of Abuja, Nigeria, 1993
University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1999
Universitat Pompeu Fabri, Barcelona, 1999
K. Invited lectures, seminars, and workshops
Institutes and Academies of Science
Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, la Habana
Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Berlin
Centre d’Études de Psychologie Cognitive, Orsay
Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, Paris
Centro Comasco di Semiotica, Varenna
Československá Akademie Vêd, Praha
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kuala Lumpur
European University Institute, Firenze
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California
Institute of Education, Singapore
Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim
Institut für Deutsch als Fremdsprache, München
Internationales Institut für Terminologieforschung, Wien
Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Budapest
Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Pécs
Maritime Academy of Alexandria
Porter Institute of Semiotics, Tel Aviv
Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig
Slovenská Akadémia Vied, Bratislava
Stanford Research Institute International, Menlo Park
Southwest Research Laboratories, Los Alamitos. LOrganizations (* = plenary speaker):
American Association of Applied Linguistics
American Educational Research Association
Associação Brasileira de Lingüística Aplicada
Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée
Association for Literary Semantics*
Cognitive Science Society
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Conference on Language and Public Policy*
Conference on Language for Special Purposes*
Conference on Reading for Special Purposes*
International Reading Association
International Semiotic Society
International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature*
International Systemic Functional Congress*
International Terminological Congress*
Language for Special Purposes*
Latvian Terminological Congress*
Linguistic Association of South Africa*
Moravian and Silesian Teachers of English*
National Reading Association
NATO Conference on Discourse*
Pacific Reading Association
Reunião Ciencia e Qualidade da Vida
Persatuan Penterjemahan Malaysia*
Sangguniang Pangwika sa Edukasyon ng Pilipinas*
Sydney Linguistic Circle
Semiotic Society of America
South African Association of Applied Linguistics*
Southeast Asian Regional Conference on Language Planning*
Southeast Conference on Linguistics*
TESOL Convention
Ukrainian Terminological Congress**
UNESCO Conference on Interdisciplinary Science
Wiener Sprachgesellschaft*
World Transdisciplinarity Congress
Universities:
Argentina
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Australia
La Trobe University
Macquarie University
University of Melbourne
Monash University, Clayton
Murdoch University
University of Western Australia, Perth
Austria
Universität Wien
Universität Salzburg
Bahrain
Belgium
Universiteit Ghent
Brazil
Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus
Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza
Universidade Federal de Pará, Belém
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis
Universidade Federal, Rio de Janeiro
Brunei
Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria
Canada
McGill University, Montreal
China
Colombia
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá
Universidad de Cartagena
Universidad de Medellín
Centro Universitario de Leticia
Croatia
Sveučilište u Zagrebu
Cuba
Universidad de la Habana
Czech Republic
Masarykovy Univerzity, Brno
Ostrava Univerzity
Univerzity Karlovy, Praha
Egypt
Al-Azhar University, Cairo
American University of Cairo
University of Alexandria
University of Cairo
Finland
Universiti Vaasa
France
Université de Paris (Sud)
Germany (Democratic Republic)
Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena
Karl Marx Universität, Leipzig
Humboldt Universität, Berlin
Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg
Wilhelm Pieck Universität, Rostock
Pädagogische Hochschule Erich Weinert, Madgeburg
Pädagogische Hochschule Friedrich Karl Wander, Dresden
Pädagogische Hochschule Karl Liebknecht, Potsdam
Pädagogische Hochschule Clara Zetkin, Leipzig
Pädagogische Hochschule Ernst Schneller, Zwickau
Germany (Federal Republic)
Technische Universität Berlin
Technische Universität Hildesheim
Universität Bielefeld
Universität Bochum
Universität Hamburg
Universität Göttingen
Universität Mainz
Universität München
Universität des Saarlandes
Universität Siegen
Universität Trier
Universität Tübingen
Hong Kong
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Lingnan College
Hungary
Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Budapest
Israel
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
Haifa University
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Tel Aviv University
Italy
Universitá degli Studii di Pisa
Jamaica
University of the West Indies, Mona
Japan
Jordan
Jordan University, Amman
Yarmouk University, Irbid
Mu'hta University, Kerek
Malaysia
Institut Teknologi Mara
Universiti Penagn Malaysia Sains, Tanjung
Morocco
Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Tanger
Netherlands
Universiteit Amsterdam
Technische Hogeschool Eindhoven
Nigeria
University of Abuja, Gwagwalada
University of Lagos, Akoka
Philippines
De la Salle University, Manila
Philippine Normal College, Manila
University of the Philippines, Baguio
University of the Philippines, Diliman
Poland
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewiscza, Poznán
Uniwersytet Lódzki, Lódz
Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika, Torun
Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro
Universidade de Oporto
Puerto Rico
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Colegio Technológico, Bayamón
Colegio Technológico Regional, Ponce
Russia
Slovakia
Univerzity Komenského, Bratislava
Slovenia
Univerza v Ljubljani
South Africa
Rhodes University, Grahamstown
University of Cape Town
University of Natal, Durban
University of the North, Pietersburg
University of Port Elizabeth
University of Potchefstroom
University of South Africa at Pretoria
University of the Western Cape
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
University of Zululand
Spain
Universidad de Alicante
Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Universidad de Granada
Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife
Universidad de las Palmas, Gran Canaria
Universidad de Salamanca
Ukraine
United Kingdom
University College, London
University of Canterbury, Kent
United States
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Carnegie-Mellon University
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond
Indiana University, Bloomington
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Memphis State University
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Stanford University
State University of New York at Buffalo
University of Arizona, Tucson
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Riverside
University of Hawaii, Manoa
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Louisville
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
University of South Florida, Tampa
University of Tampa
University of Texas, Austin
Yale University
Venezuela
Universidad Central de Venezuela
Universidad de Mérida
Publications
(23) A Friendly Grammar of English. Published on the Internet at www.beaugrande.com, April 2007.
(24) Poetic Translation Revisited. Published on the Internet at www.beaugrande.com, August 2007.
B. Books (as editor or translator)
(25) European Approaches to the Study of Text and Discourse. Special issue of Discourse Processes. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex, 1980.
(26) Empirical Foundations for the Study of Literature (as editor, reviser, and translator). Hamburg: Buske, 1982.
(27) Language, Discourse, and Translation in the West and the Middle East (with Abdulla Shunnaq and Mohammed Heliel). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1994.
(28) Language Policy and Language Education in Emerging Nations: Focus on Slovenia and Croatia (with Meta Grosman and Barbara Seidlhofer). Stamford, CT: Ablex, 1998.
C.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters (book reviews and microfiches excluded)
General linguistics and theoretical linguistics
(29) Linguistics as discourse: A case study from semantics. WORD 35, 1984, 15-57.
(30) Determinacy distribution in complex systems: Science, language, linguistics, life. Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung 40, 1987, 145-188.
(31) Complexity and linguistics in the evolution of three paradigms. Theoretical Linguistics 17, 1991, 43-73.
(32) Speech and writing in theory and in data. In Svetla Čmerjkova, František Daneš, & Eva Havlová (eds.), Writing versus Speaking: Language, Text, Discourse, Communication. Tübingen: Narr, 1994, 23-46.
(33) Perspektivy postklasickej semantiky. Jazykovedny Casopis Slovenksej Akademie Vied 45/2, 1994, 81-94.
(34) The conscious and unconscious mind in the theoretical discourse of modern linguistics. In Maxim Stamenov (ed.), Language and Consciousness. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1996, 1-47.
(35) On ‘usefulness’ and ‘validity’ in the theory and practice of linguistics: A riposte to H.G. Widdowson. Functions of Language 5/1, 1998, 87-98.
(36) Sentence first, verdict afterwards: On the long career of the sentence. WORD 50, 1999, 1-31.
(37) Language, linguistics, and cognition. In Tuija Virtanen et al. (eds.) Approaches to Cognition through Text and Discourse and. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2003.
(38) ‘There is no such thing as syntax — And it’s a good thing too!’ In Josef Hladký (ed.) Language and Function: To the Memory of Jan Firbas. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2003, 23-38.
(39) Speech versus writing in the discourse of linguistics. Miscelanea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 333, 2007
Functional and systemic functional linguistics
(40) The heritage of functional sentence perspective from the standpoint of text linguistics. Linguistica Pragiensa 34/1-2, 1992,2-26 and 55-86.
(41) Functionalism versus formalism in East and West. In Svetla Čmerjková & František Šticha (eds.), The Syntax of Sentence and Text: Festschrift for František Daneš on his 75th Birthday. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1994, 29-41.
(42) Function and form in language theory and research: The tide is turning. Functions of Language 1/2, 1994, 163-200.
(43) Round table on functional linguistics (with Jan Firbas and Henry G. Widdowson). Vienna English Working Papers 3/1, 1994, 3-18.
(44) Funkce a forma v jazykove teoriii a vyzkumu: Vlna se obraci (with František Daneš). Slovo a slovesnost 57, 1996, 1-29.
(45) Linguistics — systemic and functional: Renewing the ‘warrant’. In Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Kristin Davidse, & Dirk Noël (eds.), Reconnecting Language: Morphology and Syntax in Functional Perspectives. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1997, 49-70.
(46) On history and historicity in modern linguistics: Formalism versus functionalism revisited. Functions of Language, 4/2: 1997, 169-213.
Corpus linguistics
(47) The ‘pragmatics’ of doing language science: The ‘warrant’ for large-corpus linguistics. Journal of Pragmatics 25, 1996, 503-535.
(48) Linguistics, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics: Ideal language versus real language. Journal of Sociolinguistics 3/1, 1998, 128-139.
(49) Reconnecting real language with real texts: Text linguistics and corpus linguistics. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 4/2, 1999, 234-259.
(50) Large corpora and applied linguistics in language teaching: H.G. Widdowson versus J.McH. Sinclair.. In Paz Battaner and Carmen Lopez. (eds.) Corpus lingüístics i ensenyament de llengües. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. 2000, 87-103.
(51) Function and form of reference works: Setting a record straight for J. McH. Sinclair and the COBUILD. Published on the Internet in 2000 at http//: www.beaugrande.com
(52) Large corpora, small corpora, and the learning of “language’. In Robert Rosebery, Alex Henry, and Mohsen Ghadsessy (eds.), Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and Practice. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2001, 3-28.
(53) ‘If I were you…’: Language standards and corpus data in EFL. Revista Brasileira de Lingüística Aplicada. 1/1, 2001, 117-154.
(54) Descriptive linguistics at the millennium: Corpus data as authentic language. Journal of Language and Linguistics 1/2. 2002. 91-131.
(55) Language, discourse, and institutions: Exploring the evidence of large corpora of English. In Sinfree Makoni and Nkonko Kamwangamalu (eds.), Language and Institutions in Africa.
(56) Twenty arguments against corpus research and why they're a right load of old codswallop. Published on the Internet at http//: www.beaugrande.com.
(57) ‘Corporate bridges’ twixt text and language. In Malcolm Coulthard (ed.), Corpora, Meaning and Context; In press.
(58) How "systemic" is a large corpus of English? In Andrea Gerbig (ed.), Language, People and Numbers: Corpora in Society -- Theoretical and Applied: Festschrift in Honour of Mike Stubbs' 60th Birthday. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008
Text linguistics
(59) Text and sentence in discourse planning. In János S. Petőfi (ed.), Text vs. Sentence: Basic Questions of Text Linguistics. Hamburg: Buske, 1979, 467-494.
(60) Text and discourse in European research. In (23), 287-300.
(61) Linguistic theory and meta-theory for a science of texts. Text 1, 1981, 113-161.
(62) Text linguistics. In Teun van Dijk (ed.), Handbook of Discourse Analysis. London: Academic, 1984, 41-70.
(63) Teoría lingüística y metateoría para una ciencia del texto. In Enrique Bernárdez (ed.), Lingüística del texto. Madrid: Arco Libros, 1988, 35-94.
(64) Connexity and coherence: Retrospects and prospects for research on English. In Michel Charolles, Janos Petöfi, and Emel Sözer (eds.), Research in Text Connexity and Text Coherence. Hamburg: Buske, 1989.
(65) Ground rules for text linguistics. In Joszef Andor (ed.), Text World, Text Perspective. Hamburg: Buske, 1990.
(66) From linguistics to text linguistics to text production: A difficult path. In Gerd Antos & Hans P. Krings (eds.), Textproduktion. Ein interdisziplinärer Forschungsüberblick: Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1989, 58-83.
(67) Text linguistics through the years. Text 10, 1990, 9-17.
(68) Text as the new foundation for linguistics. In Werner Bahner, Joachim Schildt, & Dieter Viehweger (eds.), Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Linguists. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1990, 355-388.
(69) Text linguistics and new applications. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 11, 1991, 17-41.
(70) Textsorten im Mittelpunkt zwischen Theorie und Praxis. In Roger Mackeldey (ed.), Textsorten und Textmuster in der Sprech- und Schriftkommunikation. Leipzig: Wissenschaftliche Beiträge der Universität Leipzig, 1991, 171-190.
(71) Text linguistics. In J.M.Y. Simpson (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Edinburgh: Pergamon Press.
(72) Theory and practice in the design of text production models. In Gerd Antos and Hans P. Krings (eds.), Textproduktion: Neue Wege der Forschung. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1991, 5-44.
(73) Text linguistics. In Jan Blommaert, Jef Verschueren & Jan-Ola Östmann (eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual.. Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association Research Center, 1995, 536-544
(74) Lingüística textual y análisis literário (with Carmen Acuña Partal). Philologica Canariensa 1, 1995, 455-66.
(75) Text linguistics, discourse analysis, and the discourse of dictionaries. In Ad Hermans (ed.), Les dictionnairés specialises et l’analyse de la valeur. Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters, 1997, 57-74.
(76) Textlinguistik: Zu neuen Ufern? In Gerd Antos and Heike Tietz (eds.), Die Zukunft der Textlinguistik. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1997, 1-12.
(77) Text linguistics at the millennium: Corpus data and missing links. Text 20/2, 2000, 153-197.