Peter Harder is a Danish

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

and professor of

English language English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the is ...

at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...

. He is notable as a cofounder of the

Danish Functional Linguistics The Copenhagen School is a group of scholars dedicated to the study of linguistics, centered around Louis Hjelmslev (1899–1965) and the ''Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen'' (French: ''Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague'', Danish: ''Lingvistkredsen ...

stage of the Copenhagen School in linguistics. He has worked extensively with functional linguistic theories and

speech act In the philosophy of language and linguistics, speech act is something expressed by an individual that not only presents information but performs an action as well. For example, the phrase "I would like the kimchi; could you please pass it to me?" ...

theory. In Denmark, he is best known amongst the general public for his outspoken criticism against the Danish government's tight regulation of research, which he perceives as a threat to academic freedom.

Publications

*(2010) Meaning in Mind and Society: A Functional Contribution to the Social Turn in Cognitive Linguistics. (Cognitive Linguistics Research). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 528 pp. *(2005) Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft, Michael Herslund & Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen: Dansk Funktionel Lingvistik - en helhedsforståelse af forholdet mellem sprogstruktur, sprogbrug og kognition. Københavns Universitet & RUC: København. *(2003) The Status of Linguistic Facts: Rethinking the Relation between Cognition, Social Institution and Utterance from a Functional Point of View. Mind and Language 18, 1, 52-76 *(2003) Mental spaces: Exactly when do we need them? Cognitive Linguistics 14‑1, 91-96. *(1999) Partial Autonomy. Ontology and Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics, in Theo Janssen and Gisela Redeker (eds.), Cognitive Linguistics: Foundations, Scope and Methodology, Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 195-222. *(1999) Function, Cognition and Layered Clause Structure, in Jens Allwood and Peter Gärdenfors (eds.) Cognitive Semantics, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 37-66. * Functional Semantics: A Theory of Meaning, Structure and Tense in English. (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 87). Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 586 pp.

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