Prof. Dr. Klaus-Uwe Panther
Professor for Linguistics
retired
Address
Universität Hamburg
Faculty of Humanities
Department of Language, Literature, and Media II
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #23
20146 Hamburg
Curriculum Vitae
Studies
- 1976: Ph.D. in English Linguistics at Hamburg University, Germany
- 1961-67: Study of English Literature and Linguistics, French Literature, Italian, Philosophy and Education at the University of Hamburg
Professional and University Career
- April 2007: Retirement
- 1990-99: Member of the Graduate Center for Cognitive Science at Hamburg University
- Since 1982: Professor of English Linguistics in the Department of English and American Studies at Hamburg University
- 1970-82: Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics in the Department of English and American Studies at Hamburg University
Administrative Positions
- 1988-89: Vice-Dean of Faculty of Modern Languages at Hamburg University
- 1985-88: Dean of Faculty of Modern Languages (“Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaften”) at Hamburg University
Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar
- 2002-03: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Department of Linguistics (Sabbatical)
- 1992-93: Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux, Department of English and American Studies
- 1980-81: Indiana University Bloomington, Department of English and Department of Linguistics
- Winter 1985: University of California at Berkeley, Department of Linguistics
Activities in the Field of International Academic Relations
- 1999-2007: Responsible for the Socrates Program of the European Union, a program to promote student mobility in the EU
- 1993-99: Responsible for the exchange program with the Department of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Functions in Linguistic Associations
- President
- 2005-2007: International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA)
- 2004-2008: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik/ German Cognitive Linguistics Association (DGKL/ GCLA)
- Board Member
- 2003-2005: International Cognitive Linguistics Association
- 2007-2009: International Cognitive Linguistics Association
- 2008-2010: German Cognitive Linguistics Association
Honorary Professorship
- May 21, 2007: International Studies University Xi'an, China
Distinguished Visiting Professor
- 2012–2014: School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
Publications
Complete List of Publications (PDF)
Monographs
- 1973: Generative Linguistik: Ergebnisse moderner Sprachforschung. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer. [coauthor: Christoph Gutknecht]
- 1977: Studien zur semantischen Struktur englischer Quantoren unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Präsuppositionsproblems. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
- 1978: Lingüística generativa: Moderna investigación del lenguaje. Madrid: Oriens. [coauthor: Christoph Gutknecht]
- 1994: Kontrollphänomene im Englischen und Deutschen aus semantisch-pragmatischer Perspektive (Studien zur englischen Grammatik 5). Tübingen: Gunter Narr.
Edited Books
- 1999: Metonymy in Language and Thought (Human Cognitive Processing 4). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. [coeditor: Günter Radden]
- 2003: Motivation in Language: Studies in Honour of Günter Radden. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. [coeditors: Hubert Cuyckens, Thomas Berg, René Dirven]
- 2003: Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. [coeditor: Linda L. Thornburg]
- 2004: Studies in Linguistic Motivation (Cognitive Linguistic Research 28). Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. [coeditor: Günter Radden]
- 2009: Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar (Human Cognitive Processing 25). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. [coeditors: Linda L. Thornburg and Antonio Barcelona]
- 2011: Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon (Human Cognitive Processing 27). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. [coeditor: Günter Radden]
Book Chapters and Articles
- 1998: A cognitive approach to inferencing in conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 30/6: 755–769. [coauthor: Linda L. Thornburg]
- 2002: The roles of metaphor and metonymy in Englisch -er nominals. In: Dirven, René & Ralf Pörings, eds. Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast (Cognitive Linguistics Research 20). Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 279–319. [coauthor: Linda L. Thornburg]
- 2004: Introduction: Reflections on motivation. In: Radden, Günter & Klaus-Uwe Panther, eds. Studies in Linguistic Motivation (Cognitive Linguistics Research 28). Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1–46. [coauthor: Günter Radden].
- 2007: Metonymy. In: Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens, eds., Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 236–263. [coauthor: Linda L. Thornburg]
- 2009: From syntactic coordination to conceptual modification: The case of the nice and Adj construction. Constructions and Frames 1: 56–86. [coauthor: Linda L. Thornburg]
- 2011: Taking stock of figurative language and grammar: Results and prospects. metaphorik.de 21: 21–45.
- 2011: Emotion and Desire in independent complement clauses: A case study from German. In: Mario Brdar, Milena Žic Fuchs & Stefan T. Gries, eds. Converging and Diverging Tendencies in Cognitive Linguistics. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 87–114. [coauthor: Linda L. Thornburg]