Prof. Dr. Jakob Leimgruber

About

I have a Licence ès lettre from Fribourg (Switzerland), a DPhil from Oxford, and a Habilitation from Freiburg (Germany). I have worked in the UK, Germany, and Switzerland before taking on the Professorship and Chair of English linguistics at Regensburg.

Office hours

During teaching weeks, my office hours are Mondays 10:00–12:00 (Zoom only) and Wednesdays 14:15–16:00 (Zoom and in person). Please sign up for a slot at this link (external link, opens in a new window). Outside of teaching term, please email me to schedule an appointment.

Research

World Englishes (with a focus on Asian Englishes), from a structural and sociolinguistic point of view, primarily using corpus linguistic approaches
Language planning and policy, especially from a comparative perspective
Sociolinguistics
Linguistic landscapes
- Collaborative research project with University of Gdańsk: “Berlin-Warsaw: What do the linguistic landscapes of the metropolis communicate?”

Teaching

Every semester:

Introduction to English linguistics: Phonetics and phonology
State exam preparation courses
Research methods

Rotating:

World Englishes
English in contact
English dialects in Britain and Ireland
Language planning and policy
Asian Englishes
Linguistic landscapes
The sociolinguistics of English in Southeast Asia
Pidgins and creoles

Publications

All publications can be found on https://www.zotero.org/jakobleimgruber/cv (external link, opens in a new window)

ORCID: 0000-0002-6408-6873 (external link, opens in a new window)

Prof. Dr. Jakob Leimgruber

E-mail address: jakob.leimgruber(at)ur.de (opens your email program)
Tel: +49 943 3470 (starts a telephone call, if your device allows this)
Location: PT 3.2.65
Member of the faculty council

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