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Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider                                                    

 

CONFERENCE LECTURES

 

Invited Keynote / Plenary Lectures at International Conferences

Dec. 2021             AsiaTEFL conference, Delhi, India (Invited Plenary Speaker) (online)

March 2019      Symposium "Contact Englishes", Fukuoka, Japan (Invited Plenary Speaker)

March 2019       LSPIC (Linguistic Society of the Philippines) International Conference - 50th Anniversary, Manila, The Philippines (Invited Keynote Speaker)

Feb. 2019         International Conference on Pluricentricity vs. Pluriareality, Münster (Invited Plenary Speaker & Round Table Panelist)

July 2018          ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English) conference, University of London (Presidential Plenary Address)

August 2017     ICHL (International Conference on Historical Linguistics), San Antonio, Texas, USA; Invited Panel Speaker at a panel on “The Ecology of African American English”

Juni 2017          SHEL10 (Studies in the History of the English Language) conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (Invited Plenary Speaker)

Nov. 2016         Distinguished Lecture: 31st SAAL (Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics) Lecture, National University of Singapore

Juli 2016           Symposium "English and Spanish in Interaction", Universität Zürich (Invited Speaker)

Mai 2016           ICAME 37 conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Invited Plenary Lecture)

Juni 2015          International Conference "Changing English", Helsinki, Finland (Invited Plenary Speaker)

März 2015         Interntional Conference on Bilingualism, Valetta, Malta (Invited Plenary Speaker)

Dec. 2013         Conference of the Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics (KASELL), Cheonan, Korea (Invited Plenary Speaker)

October 2013    "Englishes Today" conference, Vigo, Spain (Invited Plenary Speaker)

July 2013          19e Congrès International des Linguistes, Genf (Session Manager)

Feb. 2013         Wilson Center Distinguished Lecturer, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Dec. 2012         International Association for World Englishes (IAWE), Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China (Invited Plenary Speaker)

July 2012          Second International Conference on Nondominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages, University of Salamanca, Spain (Invited Speaker)

Oct 2010          Free Linguistics Conference, University of Sydney, Australia (Invited Plenary Speaker)

Sep 2010          International Conference "Pluricentric Languages", Catholic University of Portugal,  Braga (Invited Plenary Speaker)

June 2010         International Conference "Echoes of Albion: English-American Speech Relations", University of Groningen, The Netherlands (Invited Speaker)

June 2010         International Conference "English as a Contact Language", Zurich, Switzerland  (Invited Speaker)

May 2010         ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) Conference,  Giessen (Invited Plenary Speaker)

May 2010         3rd International Conference on English as a Lingua Franca, Vienna, Austria (Invited  Plenary Speaker)

May 2009         Workshop "Linguistic complexity in interlanguage varieties, L2 varieties, and contact languages", FRIAS, Freiburg (Invited Speaker)

April 2008         RELC (Regional English Language Conference), Singapore (Invited Speaker)

Oct 2006          International Association of World Englishes, Chukyo / Nagoya, Japan (Invited Plenary  Speaker)

May 2006         Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies", Yaounde, Cameroon  (Invited Plenary Speaker)

Apr 2004          Language Variation in the South III, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Invited Speaker)

June 2001         The Major Varieties of English 3, Freiburg i. Br.(Invited Plenary Speaker)

April 2001         Australian Style Council Conference, Sydney (Invited Keynote Speaker)

July 1999          6th IAWE (International Association of World Englishes) Conference, Tsukuba, Japan (Invited Focus Speaker)

Dec 1997          4th IAWE (International Association of World Englishes) Conference, Singapore (Invited Focus Speaker)

April 1993         Language Variation in the South II, Auburn, Alabama (Invited Speaker)

Feb 1988          Round Table on Africanisms in Afro-American Language Varieties, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., USA (Invited Speaker)

 

Lectures at International Conferences

Feb. 2022         MasterVision student conference, University of Bremen (Invited Keynote Speaker) (online)

Aug. 2021         ICAME 42 conference, TU Dortmund

Juni 2021          ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English) conference, Univ. of Eastern Finland Joensuu (online)

Feb. 2021         6th NWAV-AP (New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific) conference, National University of Singapore (online)

Juni 2019          International Association for World Englishes, Limerick, Irland

July 2018           International Congress of Linguists (ICL 20), Cape Town, South Africa (workshop co-convener)

Mai/Juni 2018    International Association for World Englishes, Manila, Philippinen

Feb. 2017         International Conference of “Varieties of English in the Indo-Pacific” project, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australien

Sep.-Oct. 2016  Free Linguistics Conference, Padang, Indonesien

Sep. 2016         ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English), Poznan, Polen

April 2016         4th NWAV-AP (New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific) conference, National Cheung Chung University, ChiaYi, Taiwan

Oct. 2015          International Association of World Englishes, Istanbul, Turkey

Dec. 2014         International Association for World Englishes, Delhi, Indien

April-Mai 2014   ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) Conference, Nottingham, UK

May 2012         "English in Asia's Language Habitats" conference, Freie Universität Berlin

May 2012         Fifth "English as a Lingua Franca" conference, Istanbul

May 2012         "English in Asia's Language Habitats" conference, Freie Universität Berlin

August 2011     Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Accra, Ghana

June 2011         International Society for the Linguistics of English, Boston, MA, USA

February 2011   New Ways of Analyzing Variation – Asia-Pacific (NWAV-AP) conference, Delhi, India

July 2010          International Association for World Englishes, Vancouver, Canada

Oct 2009          International Association for World Englishes, Cebu, The Philippines

July 2009          International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English 3, London

Dec 2008          International Association for World Englishes, Hong Kong

Oct 2008          International Society for the Linguistics of English, Freiburg

Jul 2007           International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English 2, Toulouse

Nov 2006          NWAVE35: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Columbus, Ohio

Oct 2005          SHEL4 – Studies in the History of the English Language, Flagstaff, Arizona, US

Aug 2005          12th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology. Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Jun 2005          "Creole language structure between substrates and superstrates", Max-Planck-Institut  für Evolutionäre Anthropologie, Universität Leipzig

May 2005         ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) and AAACL (American Association of Applied Corpus Linguistics) Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Dec 2003          8th English in Southeast Asia Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Aug 2003          Summer Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Honolulu, HI, USA

Oct 2003          NWAVE32: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Oct 2002          NWAVE31: New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Stanford, CA, USA

Aug 2002          Biennial Meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, St Augustin Campus, Trinidad

July/Aug 2001   IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English), Bamberg

Oct 2000          NWAVE29: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Lansing, Michigan

Oct 1999          NWAVE28: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Toronto, Canada

Aug 1999          AILA '99 World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan

Oct 1998          NWAVE27: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Athens, Georgia, USA

Jun 1998          International Symposium "Degrees of restructuring in Creole Languages / Degrés de restructuration dans les langues créoles", Regensburg

Oct 1996          NWAVE25: New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

July 1996          Ninth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Bangor, Wales, UK

Oct 1995          NWAVE24: New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Oct 1994          NWAVE23: New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Stanford, CA, USA

Sep 1994          Eighth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Edinburgh, Scotland

Aug 1992          Ninth Biennial Meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, Cave Hill, Barbados

July 1991          "Early Modern English" Conference, Tulln, Austria

June 1991         International Conference "Language Contact and Language Change", Rydzyna, Poland

July/Aug 1990   International Congress of Dialectologists, Bamberg

June 1990         11th ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern English) Conference, Berlin

May 1990         Sixth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Helsinki, Finland

March 1989       Workshop "Computer Methods in Dialectology", Athens, Ga., USA

Nov 1988          SAMLA / SECOL (South Atlantic Modern Language Association and South-Eastern  Conference on Linguistics), Washington, DC

Nov 1987          Colloquium "Problems of Lexical Semantics", Essen

Aug 1987          XIV. International Congress of Linguists, Berlin, GDR

Aug 1987          Sixth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Bangor, Wales

Aug 1983          6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Poznan, Poland

April 1982         Sociolinguistics Symposium, Sheffield, England

 

International Conferences Attended

Sept. 2019        BICLCE (8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English), Bamberg

June 2019         ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English), Neuchatel, Schweiz

April 2019         Irish Corpus Pragmatics, Dortmund

Mai 2018           Early Language Learning Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland

June 2017         Conference “The Global South on the Move”, University of Cologne

May 2013          Selection Conference of the VW-Foundation "Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa", Saly, Senegal

July 2008          Symposium "Approaches to Language Variation and Change", Bamberg

Dec 1997          Three Circles of English Conference, Singapore

Mar 1987          L.A.U.D.-Symposium "Pidgin and Creole Languages", Duisburg

Oct 1983          SAMLA / SECOL South Atlantic Modern Language Association and South-Eastern  Conference on Linguistics, Atlanta, GA, USA

 

Conferences Organized

 

Oct. 2017          Organizer of the International Summer School of ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English), University of Regensburg

July 2013          Session manager of the session "Sociolinguistics and multilingualism", 19e Congrès International des Linguistes, Geneva, Switzerland

Oct. 2007         Organizer of 13th Conference of the International Association of World Englishes   (IAWE), Regensburg: "World Englishes: Problems – Properties – Prospects"

Sep 2007          Workshop "The Sociolinguistics of Transformation", Cape Town, South Africa

July/Aug 2001   Vice-Chair of section "English in Contact: Mixed Varieties and Creoles" (with Geneviève Escure), IAUPE Jubilee Conference, Bamberg

June 1998         Organizer of International Symposium "Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages / Degrés de restructuration dans les langues créoles", Regensburg (with I. Neumann-Holzschuh)

Sep 1996          Organizer of the Linguistic Section "Approaches to Linguistic Change"; Annual Meeting of the German Anglistentag, Dresden

Sep 1996          Organizer of 2nd Regensburg Graduate Seminar in English Linguistics with Prof. Walt Wolfram (North Carolina): "The Changing Scope of American English Dialects"

Dec 1993          Organizer of Regensburg Graduate Seminar in English Linguistics with Prof. Guy Bailey (Memphis, TN, USA): "American Sociolinguistics in the 1990s: An Approach to Sociolinguistic Dialectology"

March 1989       Co-organizer of Workshop "Computer Methods in Dialectology", Athens, GA, USA

 

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  1. Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Cultures
  2. Department of English and American Studies

English Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider
Professor emeritus

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edgar.schneider@ur.de