Jan Engberg

Jan Engberg (* 1962 ) is a Danish linguist . He teaches at the University of Aarhus belonging Aarhus School of Business and Social Science Department of Business Communication in the fields of translation , cognitive linguistics and communication . As a specialist translator and editor , his research focuses on the relationship between language and meaning in legal language .

biography

As a student at the Aarhus School of Business, Engberg received an MA in German Studies in 1990 and a Ph.D. in linguistics. Engberg has worked as a visiting professor and researcher at many European universities, including the University of Hamburg , the University of Leipzig , the University of Graz and the Brooklyn Law School in New York . In the 1990s, Engberg was a member of the advisory board of the Society for Applied Linguistics e. V. (GAL). He is a member of the editorial board of FACHSPRACHE - International Journal of Specialized Communication, which appears twice a year with articles in English, German, French and Spanish. He is also co-editor of Hermes and LSP Journal.

research

The research focus of Engberg's lies in research on text types and genres in the scientific field. This includes both cognitive aspects of discourse in various areas of knowledge and the relationship between specialist knowledge and text formulation as well as basic research in technical language communication . His research is particularly focused on communication and translation in the field of legal language . There are also other scientific areas such as communication in the research field of climate change . Engberg is also a leader in research into multimodality and the dissemination of academic knowledge.

Engberg is co-initiator of the network RELINE - Legal Linguistics Network at the University of Copenhagen , which focuses on the interaction between law and language and strives to network all areas involved.

Current research project: “Multilingualism and academic writing skills . Developments of measures to promote and empirically test academic literacy ”under the direction of Carmen Heine ( Aarhus ) and Dagmar Knorr ( Hamburg ).

Publications (selection)

• CD Maier, Jan Engberg: The Multimodal Evolution of Narrator's Types and Roles in Research Genres . June 27, 2012.
• Peter Lang: Current Trends in LSP Research: Aims and Methods . Ed .: Margarethe Petersen, Jan Engberg (=  Linguistic Insights . Volume 144 ). Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-0343-1054-3 (English, online [accessed on July 6, 2017]).
• Vijay K. Bhatia, Christopher N. Candlin, Jan Engberg (Eds.): Legal Discourse across Cultures and Systems . Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong 2008, ISBN 962-209-852-5 ( online [accessed July 6, 2017]).
• Jan Engberg: Languages ​​for Specific Purposes . In: K. Brown (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics . 2nd Edition. Pergamon Press, Oxford 2006 (English).
• How to make jam from eggs: from translation studies to transfer studies . In: Susanne Göpferich , Jan Engberg (Hrsg.): Quality of technical language communication (=  forum for technical language research ). tape 66 . Gunter Narr, 2004, ISSN  0939-8945 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jan Engberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jan Engberg - Publications. School of Communication and Culture, accessed July 6, 2017 . 
• Jan Engberg - project developer. School of Communication and Culture, accessed July 6, 2017 . 
• Jan Engberg. RELINE Legal Linguistics Network, accessed July 6, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jan Engberg: Jan Engberg - CV. (No longer available online.) School of Communication and Culture, archived from the original on May 13, 2016 ; accessed on July 6, 2017 (dk). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Editorial Board ( English ) technical language. Retrieved May 17, 2019.
3. ↑ International Collaborator, Dr Jan Engberg. (No longer available online.) City University of Hong Kong - Mediation, Litigation, Arbitration, archived from the original on December 20, 2015 ; accessed on July 6, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Keynote Speakers. European Symposium on LSP, accessed on July 6, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Cooperation with Aarhus University: Project “Multilingualism and Academic Text Competence. Development of measures for the promotion and empirical testing of academic writing skills ”. University of Hamburg, 2017, accessed on July 6, 2017 .