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Prof. Dr. Neal R. Norrick

Chair of Department

Neal R. Norrick holds the chair of English Philology (Linguistics) at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. He came to Saarbrücken from Northern Illinois University, where he was Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English. He has taught English Linguistics at the Universities of Würzburg, Kassel, Hamburg, Braunschweig and Regensburg, where he received his doctorate in General Linguistics in 1978. His research specializations in linguistics include conversation, narrative and pragmatics. In recent years, Professor Norrick has focused his research on spoken language, with a particular attention to storytelling in everyday talk and verbal humor.

Professor Norrick is Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Pragmatics and serves on the Consultation Board of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA). He is on the editorial boards of the journals: Text & Talk; Humor: International Journal of Humor Research; International Review of Pragmatics; Discourse Processes; Lodz Papers in Pragmatics; and Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict.

Courses offered during the summer semester 2013

SS 2013

This lecture offers a general overview of research in Discourse Analysis from its origins up to current trends and schools. Topics include context, coherence, presupposition, inference, spoken versus written discourse, narrative, frame theory, Conversation Analysis, Interactional Sociolinguistics, and Critical Discourse Analysis.

The tutorial with Ian Schwarz offers students an opportunity to further discuss issues raised in the lecture and to develop skills in comparing linguistic theories and analyzing discourse from various theoretical perspectives. In order to obtain course credit, a student must pass a test at the end of the semester.

Please check the English Linguistics homepage regularly for up-to-date information regarding deadlines and room changes.

SS 2013

In this seminar, we will review current research on speaking and listening versus writing and reading, on orality and methods of representing speech. We will investigate both speech and written varieties with speech-like features in mediated communication contexts such as television, film, e-mail, text messaging, facebook and blogs.

In order to obtain course credit, a student must pass a short quiz in the third week of the tutorial, give two oral presentations in class and write a 12-15 page term paper. The first presentation is a reading report on a book or a few articles, and the second is on work in progress leading to the term paper. More information will be available on the English Linguistics homepage.

The tutorial with Selina Schmidt offers students an opportunity to explore methods of analyzing literary style and describing rhetorical effects in written texts generally as well as to gain practice in academic writing and oral presentation. Students who would like to participate in the seminar should contact: hsl[DELETE_ME]ingu[DELETE_ME]isti[DELETE_ME]cs@gma[DELETE_ME]il.co[DELETE_ME]m

SS 2013

This seminar will investigate variation in English over time, by area and social group, by discourse type, context and medium. We will explore issues in diachronic and areal ling (dialectology) along with questions of register, sociolect and style.

In order to obtain course credit, a student must pass a short quiz in the third week of the tutorial, give two oral presentations in class and write a 12-15 page term paper. The first presentation is a reading report on a book or a few articles, and the second is on work in progress leading to the term paper. More information will be available on the English Linguistics homepage.

The tutorial with Steffen Witt offers students an opportunity to explore current descriptions of language development and theories of second language acquisition as well as to gain practice in academic writing and oral presentation. Students who would like to participate in the seminar should contact: stw[DELETE_ME]i500[DELETE_ME]2@stud[DELETE_ME].uni-sa[DELETE_ME]arlan[DELETE_ME]d.de.

SS 2013

The colloquium offers writers of theses and dissertations a forum for presentation of their work-in-progress. Special contact hours and sessions for oral-exam candidates will be held during the colloquium as well. All exam candidates are encouraged to attend regularly.

Selected publications

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Work in progress

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