Günter Radden

Günter Radden (born July 11, 1934 ) is a German Anglist.

Life

In 1967 he obtained his Magister Artium in Hamburg in English, general linguistics and education . In 1967 he became a research assistant at the University of Hamburg. From 1968 to 1969 he was a lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne . From 1969 to 1970 he had a scholarship at Indiana University . From 1970 to 1981 he was a research assistant at the University of Trier . From 1981 to 1982 he was a professor at the University of Siegen . From 1982 to 1999 he taught as a professor at the University of Hamburg . In 1985 he taught as visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley . From 1989 to 1990 he was visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego . Since 1993 he initiated an exchange with partner University of Warsaw . In 1995 he was visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego. In 1999 and 2008 he taught as visiting professor at Osaka Municipal University . In 2000 he was visiting professor at the Jagiellonian University . In 2001, 2003, and 2004 he was visiting professor at the University of Bergen . In 2002, 2006, 2012 he was visiting professor at the University of Debrecen . From 2003 to 2004 he was visiting professor at the University of Warsaw.

His focus is on cognitive linguistics, especially cognitive grammar, prepositions, metonymy, metaphor and motivation in language.

with René Dirven: Semantic Syntax of English . Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-7997-0661-5 .
A profile of sociolinguistic variation in a small American town . Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-8204-6371-2 .
with René Dirven: Cognitive English Grammar . Amsterdam 2007, ISBN 978-1-55619-664-5 .
as editor with Klaus-Uwe Panther: Motivation in grammar and the lexicon . Amsterdam 2011, ISBN 90-272-2381-5 .

Klaus-Uwe Panther , Hubert Cuyckens , Thomas Berg and René Dirven as editors: Motivation in Language. Studies in Honor of Günter Radden . Amsterdam 2003, ISBN 90-272-4755-2 .