Prof. Dr. Günter Radden

Professor of Linguistics

retired

Address

University of Hamburg

Faculty of Humanities

Department of Language, Literature, and Media II

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #23

20146 Hamburg

Office hours

by arrangement (e-mail)

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-2567

Email: raddeng"AT"yahoo.com

Academic Background

1967 MA at Hamburg in English, General Linguistics and Education
1967 Assistant at Hamburg University
1968-69 Lector at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1969-70 Scholarship at Indiana University
1970-81 Assistant at Trier University
1981-82 Deputy professor at Siegen University
1982-99 Professor at Hamburg University

Visiting Scholar and guest professor

1985, University of California, Berkeley
1989-90, University of California, San Diego
1995, University of California, San Diego
1999, 2008 Osaka City University
2000, Guest professor Jagiellonian University in Krakow
2001, 2003, 2004 University of Bergen
2002, 2006, 2012 Guest professor University of Debrecen
2003-04 Guest professor University of Warsaw

Talks within the past 5 years

2020	UKCLC, Birmingham: “Meaningful grammar: aspect, tense, modality”
2019	Pomeranian University Słupsk, 50th anniversary: “Ubiquity of metonymy“ “Our understanding of time” “Meaningful grammar: English aspect” “Meaningful grammar: English tense” Birmingham University: “Motivation in language”
2018	AELCO, Cordoba: “Motivation of metonymy” FTL 4, Braga: The metonymic hit the Ntype -construction”
2017	2017 ICLC 14, Tartu: “Meaningful English grammar” FTL 3, Osijek: “Metonymy”
2016	Southwest University, Chongqing: “Motivation in language” “Meaningful grammar” “Metonymy” “Generic reference” “Metaphorical time” DGKL, Essen: “Meaningful English grammar: Aspect” Cognitive Linguistics Symposium, Zagreb: “Metonymy”
2015	FTL 2, Pavia: “Speaker-centered perspective of metonymy” ICLC 13, Newcastle: “Event Metonymies”

International affairs and Memberships

Since 1993 Exchange program with Warsaw University
International Cognitive Linguistics Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik
Member of the editorial board of Cognitive Linguistics, Review of Cognitive Linguistics, International Journal of English Studies (Murcia University), Jezikoslovlje (Osijek University), Studies in Linguistics (Debrecen University).
Editor of the Series Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, Benjamins Amsterdam

Research

Main fields of research

Cognitive Linguistics, particularly Cognitive Grammar
prepositions
metonymy
metaphor
motivation in language

Current Projects

Book: Meaningful Grammar: Aspect, Tense, Modality
motivation in language

Publications

Date: February 2022

Books

Edited books

Articles

2022 Metonymic hitting
2020 Iconicity. In Xu Wen and John Taylor, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. Routledge. 268-296.
2020 Der verkannte e-Dativ im heutigen Deutsch: im Kreise meiner Lieben und am Rande des Abgrunds. In Anja Binanzer, Jana Gamper und Verena Wecker, Hrsg., Prototypen – Schemata – Konstruktionen: Untersuchungen zur deutschen Morphologie und Syntax, 41-54. Berlin: de Gruyter.
2018 Molly married money: Reflections on conceptual metonymy. In Olga Blanco-Carrión, Antonio Barcelona, and Rossella Pannain, eds., Conceptual Metonymy. Methodological, Theoretical, and Descriptive Issues, 161-182. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: Benjamins.
2018 Meaningful grammar. Costellazioni 6: 131-155.
2016 Obituary: In Memoriam René Dirven (1932-2016). Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14(2): v-vii
2015 “Cognitive Linguistics is fun”: An Interview with Günter Radden conducted by Réka Benczes. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13: 479-506.
2015 Vergangene, letzte oder vorige Woche? Puzzles zur Zeitmetaphork. In Constanze Spieß und Klaus-Michael Köpcke, Hrsg., Metaphern und Metonymie: Theoretische, methodische und empirische Zugänge, 177-201. Berlin, München, Boston: de Gruyter.
2014 Pučki model jezika. In Mateusz-Milan Stanojevič, ed. Metafore koje istražujemo: Suvremeni uvidi u konceptualnu metaforu, 47-61. Zagreb: Srednja Europa.
2014 Making sense of negated modals in English, with a glimpse at other Germanic languages. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 12: 471-491.
2014 Making sense of negated modals. Argumentum 10: 519-532.
2012. Alltagsmodel der Sprache. In: Magdalena Olpińska, Sambor Grucza, Zofia Berdychowska and Jerzy Żmudzki, eds., Der Mensch und seine Sprachen: Festschrift für Professor Franciszek Grucza, 487-499. Frankfurt/Main et al.: Peter Lang.
2011 Spatial time in the West and the East
2009 Generic reference in English: A metonymic and conceptual blending analysis.
2009 Affirmative and negated modality
2007 Interaction of modality and negation.
2006 Where time meets space.
2005 (with Klaus-Uwe Panther) Metonymy. In: Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman, eds., Handbook of Pragmatics, 1-14. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.
2005 The ubiquity of metonymy.
2004 The metonymic folk model of language.
2003 (with Ken-ichi Seto) Metonymic construals of shopping requests in have- and be-languages. In Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda Thornburg (eds.), Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing, 223-239. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.
2002 How metonymic are metaphors?
2002 (with Elizabeth Matthis) Why similar to, but different from? In Günter Radden and Hubert Cuyckens (eds), Perspectives on Prepositions, 231-255. Tübingen: Niemeyer
1999 (with Zoltán Kövecses) Towards a theory of metonymy.
1998 (with Zoltán Kövecses) Metonymy: Developing a cognitive linguistic view.
1996 Motion metaphorized: The case of coming and going.

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