Neal R. Norrick

Neal R. Norrick is an American linguist, emigrated to Germany as part of his academic activity. He currently holds the chair of English Philology (Linguistics) at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. Neal Norrick has become in the last two decades an important personality in functional linguistics, for his pioneering works about humor and poetics of the interaction.

He came to Saarbrücken from Northern Illinois University, where he was Professor for Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English. He has taught English Linguistics at the Universities of Würzburg, Kassel, Hamburg, Braunschweig and Regensburg, where he received his doctorate in General Linguistics in 1978.

His research specializations in linguistics include conversational narrative,^[1][2][3] verbal humor,^[4] and Tellability.^[5] He authored the first monograph on humor in conversation.^[6]

In recent years, Professor Norrick has focused his research on spoken language, with particular interests in the role of the listener in conversational interaction.^[7][8] Professor Norrick is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Pragmatics, and serves on the advisory boards of the journals Text&Talk, Humor, International Review of Pragmatics, and Discourse Processes.

References

1. ^ Conversational Narrative. Paperback edition. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2010.
2. ^ The dark side of tellability. Narrative Inquiry 15 (2005), 323-343.
3. ^ http://narrative.georgetown.edu/wiki/index.php/Conversational_narrative
4. ^ Humor in Interaction. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2009.(edited with Delia Chiaro)
5. ^ http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/index.php/Tellability
6. ^ Conversational Joking. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
7. ^ Incorporating listener evaluation into stories. Narrative Inquiry 20, 1 (2010): 183-204.
8. ^ Listening practices in television interviews. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (2010), 525–543.

External links

• Homepage
• Conversational narrative
• Baroni, Raphaël: "Tellability", Paragraph 22. In: Hühn, Peter et al. (eds.): the living handbook of narratology. Hamburg: Hamburg University Press.

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