Edgar W. Schneider (born 30 May 1954) is a German linguist of Austrian origin. He is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where he held the Chair of English Linguistics from 1993 to 2020. In 2021 and 2022 he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore. He is known in World Englishes research mainly as the originator of the

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of the evolution of Postcolonial Englishes.

Education and career

Schneider was born in

Kirchdorf an der Krems Kirchdorf an der Krems is a town in the Austrian state of Upper Austria on the river Krems, in the district of Kirchdorf an der Krems. Apparently settled by the year 903, it has 4,104 inhabitants in a relatively small area of 3 km. Population ...

, Austria. He studied at University of Graz between 1972 and 1978. Later, he completed his PhD in 1981 and his

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in 1987 at the

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, Germany. In 1988 he was an interim professor at the

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, and in 1988/1989 an adjunct associate professor at the

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, US. In 1989 he became a full professor at the

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. In 1993 he took over the chair at Regensburg. In Regensburg he founded the Research Center for World Englishes. Schneider was dean of studies at the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies of the University of Regensburg (2007–2009) and dean of the faculty from 2009 to 2011. Schneider was the president of the

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(ISLE) in 2016–2018. He edited the scholarly journal
English World-Wide
' (Amsterdam: Benjamins) from 1997 to 2013 and its associated book series
Varieties of English Around the World
' from 1997 to 2011. He was a co-editor of the voluminous ''Handbook of Varieties of English'' (2004) and also of the ''Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes'' (2020), and is the author of an introductory textbook, ''English Around the World'' (2011, 2nd ed. 2020). He edits a series of short monographs for Cambridge University Press, calle
Elements: World Englishes

External links

https://www.uni-regensburg.de/language-literature-culture/english-linguistics/medien/staff/schneider/interview_schneider_jengl_44_4__2016.pdf Interview for Journal of English Linguistics
conducted by Viveka Velupillai

Bibliography

Schneider's book publications include the following: 1988. ''Variabilität, Polysemie und Unschärfe der Wortbedeutung.'' Vol. 1: ''Theoretische und methodische Grundlagen.'' Vol. 2: ''Studien zur lexikalischen Semantik der mentalen Verben des Englischen.'' Tübingen: Niemeyer. 1989. ''American Earlier Black English. Morphological and Syntactic Variables.'' Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press. 1996. ''Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data: An Atlas by the Numbers.'' (with W.A. Kretzschmar) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 1996. ''Focus on the USA.'' (ed.) Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1997. ''Englishes Around the World. Vol. 1: General Studies - British Isles - North America. Vol. 2: Caribbean - Africa - Asia - Australasia. Studies in Honour of Manfred Görlach.'' (ed.) Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2000. ''Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages''. (ed., with I. Neumann-Holzschuh). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 2004. ''A Handbook of Varieties of English''. ''A Multimedia Reference Tool''. Vol. 1: ''Phonology''. Vol. 2: ''Morphology and Syntax''. (ed., with B. Kortmann, C. Upton, R. Mesthrie and K. Burridge). Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 2007. ''Postcolonial English: Varieties Around the World''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2010. ''The'' ''Lesser-Known Varieties of English''. ''An Introduction''. (ed., with D. Schreier, P. Trudgill, and J. Williams). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2011. ''English Around the World: An Introduction''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2nd edition 2020. 2015. ''Further Studies in the'' ''Lesser-Known Varieties of English''. (with J. Williams, D. Schreier, and P. Trudgill). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2020. ''The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes''. (with D. Schreier and M. Hundt). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. ''World Englishes at the Grassroots''. (with Ch. Meierkord) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schneider, Edgar Academic staff of the University of Regensburg Living people Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin 1954 births Linguists from Austria University of Bamberg alumni University of Graz alumni People from Kirchdorf an der Krems Academic staff of the University of Trier