Draft:Christian Mair

Christian Mair (* February 3 1958 in Innsbruck) is a German linguist of Austrian origin. Since 1990, he has been a professor of English linguistics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg.

Background

After receiving his doctorate sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae (1985) and his habilitation (1990) at the University of Innsbruck, Mair became professor of English Linguistics in Freiburg in 1990. In 2005, he was appointed an honorary doctor of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași. In 2006, he became a part of the German Science and Humanities Council .[1] In 2013, Christian Mair was accepted as a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.[2] Since 2014, he has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities .[3]

Research Focal Points

  • Sociolinguistics of English
  • Language change in today’s English
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Grammar of Modern English

Publications

  • 1990: Infinitival Clauses in English, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 1995: Englisch für Anglisten: Eine Einführung in die englische Sprache [English for English studies: An Introduction to the English Language], Tübingen Stauffenberg.
  • 1995: English in the World Today: A Survey of Varieties of English around the World, Iași: Ars Nova.
  • 1997: Einführung in die anglistische Sprachwissenschaft [Introduction to English Linguistics], Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
  • 1999 (with Ernst Leisi): Das heutige Englisch: Wesenszüge und Probleme [Today’s English: Characteristics and Challenges] , 8th edition., Heidelberg: Winter.
  • 2006: Twentieth-Century English: History, Variation and Standardization, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2008: English Linguistics, Tübingen: Narr.

Mair is also co-editor of the journal Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik [Works in English and American Studies].

Further Reading

References

  1. ^ Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrtenkalender, s. v. Mair, Christian
  2. ^ "Korrespondierende Mitglieder der ÖAW: Christian Mair". Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  3. ^ "Mitglieder der HAdW seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1909" (Christian Mair). Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 2016-06-20.

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