Neal R. Norrick
Neal R. Norrick (born August 13, 1948 ) is an American linguist . He was a professor at the Saarland University .
Career
From 1997 to his retirement in 2013, Norrick held the chair for English linguistics at Saarland University. He studied at Lehigh University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before starting his academic career in 1978 at the University of Regensburg with a doctorate in general linguistics . From 1972 to 1984 he worked at the Universities of Regensburg, Würzburg , Hamburg and Kassel , where he also completed his habilitation in 1984 with his work on English proverbs. Norrick was a professor at Northern Illinois University from 1985 to 1997 . In 1994 he was the professor for English linguistics at the Technical University of Braunschweig .
research
In his scientific work, Norrick first dealt with systems linguistics in the areas of syntax , semantics and pragmatics of the English language , later also with other topics such as technical language, poetics and metaphor . Since 1985 he has devoted himself increasingly to researching the structure and dynamics of spoken language. His main focus here is on conversational humor and everyday stories. In 1993 he published his monograph Conversational Joking: Humor in Everyday Talk , a study on humor in everyday communication. His investigations into storytelling in conversation culminated in the book Conversational Narrative: Storytelling in Everyday Talk , published in 2000 . Another research interest is phraseology . He dealt with it in his habilitation thesis How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proverbs and is co-editor of the 2007 International Handbook of Phraseology. In addition, from 2009 to 2017 Norrick was Co-Editor in Chief of the scientific journal Journal of Pragmatics and sits on the scientific advisory board of the journals Text & Talk , Humor: International Journal of Humor Research , Discourse Processes , International Review of Pragmatics; Lodz Papers in Pragmatics and Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict .
Saarbrücken Corpus of Spoken English (SCoSE)
Norrick put together a corpus of spoken English in Saarbrücken . This freely accessible data collection consists, among other things, of transcriptions of everyday conversations and narratives, sociolinguistic interviews, joke communication and teaching sequences. The SCoSE is continuously expanded and serves as the basis for a wide range of linguistic research work.
Fonts (selection)
As an author:
- How Proverbs Mean: Semantic Studies in English Proberbs. Mouton, Berlin and New York 1985.
- Conversational Joking: Humor in Everyday Talk. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1993.
- Conversational Narrative: Storytelling in Everyday Talk. Benjamin, Amsterdam 2000 (new edition 2010).
- "Negation in narrative: Why say what didn't happen?" Narrative Inquiry 28.2 (2018): 373-395.
As editor
- With Harald Burger , Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij, Peter Kühn : Phraseology: An international handbook of contemporary research. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2007.
- With Delia Chiaro : Humor in interaction. Benjamin, Amsterdam 2009 (2nd edition 2011).
- With Cornelia Ilie. Pragmatics and its interfaces. Amsterdam 2018.
Web links
- Literature by and about Neal R. Norrick in the catalog of the German National Library
- Saarbrücken Corpus of Spoken English (SCoSE) website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Norrick, Neal R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1948 |