Florian Coulmas
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- PhD Linguistics University of Duisburg-Essen
- Masters Linguistics University of Duisburg-Essen
- Bachelors Linguistics University of Duisburg-Essen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Florian Coulmas is a German linguist and author. He is Senior Professor for Japanese Society and Sociolinguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. From 1968 to 1975, Florian Coulmas studied Sociology, Philosophy, and German Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and at Paris Sorbonne . He completed his PhD at Bielefeld University in 1977. In 1980, he finished his habilitation at Düsseldorf University where he worked as a privatdozent thereafter. In 1987, he became Professor of Sociolinguistics at Chūō University.
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- Politeness Markers in English and German (1981) (496)
- 社会语言学通览 = The Handbook of sociolinguistics (2001) (461)
- The Compliment Formula (1981) (333)
- Writing Systems: An Introduction to Their Linguistic Analysis (2002) (290)
- The Writing Systems of the World (1991) (265)
- "Poison to Your Soul" Thanks and Apologies Contrastively Viewed (1981) (225)
- On the sociolinguistic relevance of routine formulae (1979) (210)
- Linguistic Routines and Politeness in Greeting and Parting (1981) (194)
- Reported speech: Some general issues (1986) (147)
- Direct and Indirect Speech (1986) (133)
- A Festschrift for native speaker (1981) (104)
- Language and Economy (1997) (104)
- A Language Policy for the European Community: Prospects and Quandaries (1991) (102)
- Introduction: Conversational Routine (1981) (98)
- Sociolinguistics: The Study of Speakers' Choices (2005) (96)
- Changing language regimes in globalizing environments (2005) (91)
- Population Decline and Ageing in Japan: The Social Consequences (2007) (86)
- LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPING AND THE SEED OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE (2008) (80)
- Linguistic minorities and literacy : language policy issues in developing countries (1984) (69)
- The demographic challenge : a handbook about Japan (2008) (69)
- Sense and Ritual in Classroom Discourse (1981) (55)
- Direct and indirect speech: General problems and problems of Japanese (1985) (50)
- On Saying You're Sorry (1981) (49)
- Writing in Focus (1984) (33)
- European integration and the idea of the national language Ideological roots and economic consequences (1991) (27)
- On ‘new/non-native’ Englishes: A gamelan (1995) (26)
- Writing and Society: An Introduction (2013) (24)
- The future of Chinese characters (1991) (22)
- With Forked Tongues: What Are National Languages Good for (1988) (22)
- Language rights—interests of state, language groups and the individual (1998) (21)
- Parallel Structure and “The Failure of Modern Linguistics” (1981) (19)
- Sociolinguistics: Micro-choices (2013) (18)
- Linguistic minorities and literacy (1984) (18)
- Norms and Standards (1996) (16)
- “Right or Wrong, My Native Speaker” Estant les Régestes du Noble Souverain de l’Empirie Linguistic avec un Renvoy au Mesme Roy (1981) (16)
- Evaluating merit—the evolution of writing reconsidered (2009) (15)
- Idiomaticity as a problem of pragmatics (1981) (15)
- The Concept of Linguistic Intuition (1981) (15)
- The Semantics of Forgotten Routines (1981) (15)
- Identity: A Very Short Introduction (2019) (15)
- English monolingualism in scientific communication and progress in science, good or bad? (2007) (14)
- The quest for happiness in Japan (2010) (14)
- Introduction: The Concept of Native Speaker (1981) (13)
- Announcing—On Formulating Plans (1981) (13)
- Language Policy and Planning: Political Perspectives (1994) (13)
- Direct and indirect speech in Japanese (1986) (12)
- 12. Linguistic etiquette in Japanese society (1992) (12)
- Japan’s nascent multilingualism (2002) (12)
- On Stereotypes in Conversation, Their Meaning and Significance (1981) (11)
- Imploding populations in Japan and Germany : a comparison (2011) (11)
- Writing systems and language contact in the Euro- and Sinocentric worlds (2014) (11)
- Writing is crucial (2002) (11)
- The Language Trade in the Asian Pacific. (1991) (10)
- A Typology of Native Speakers (1981) (10)
- The inequality of languages: Economic aspects of language estimation (1996) (9)
- Language Regimes in Transformation: Future Prospects for German and Japanese in Science, Economy, and Politics (2007) (9)
- Spies and Native Speakers (1981) (9)
- Why speak English (1987) (9)
- Civil Society and Happiness: Japan and Beyond (2015) (8)
- A matter of choice (1997) (8)
- How to Become a Native Speaker: One Simple Way (1981) (8)
- The surge of Japanese (1989) (8)
- An Introduction to Multilingualism: Language in a Changing World (2018) (7)
- Some remarks on Japanese deictics (1982) (7)
- Informants or Colleagues (1981) (7)
- Imploding Populations in Japan and Germany (2011) (5)
- Writing and literacy in China (1983) (5)
- Typology of Writing Systems Schrifttypologie (1996) (4)
- The Struggle for a Theory of Native Speaker (1981) (4)
- Rasmus Rask Studies in Pragmatic Linguistics, Volume 2, Conversational Routine (1981) (4)
- Aspects of Japanese discourse structure: John V. Hinds, Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 1976. 152 pp. ¥3000 (1978) (4)
- The nationalization of writing (2000) (4)
- Writing Systems: History of writing (2002) (4)
- Linguistic problems of literacy — introduction (1983) (4)
- Native Speaker’s Heritage. On Philology of “Dead” Languages (1981) (4)
- Monolinguistic Assumptions under Pressure – Perspectives on the languages of Tokyo from the points of view of the economics of language and social psychology (2003) (4)
- Japan's Bid for a Permanent Seat on the UN Security Council (2006) (3)
- The Status of German: some suggestions for future research (1990) (3)
- Germanness--Language and Nation (1993) (3)
- Minimal Speakers, Necessary Speech Acts (1981) (3)
- Writing and Society: List of tables (2013) (3)
- Writing Systems: Sociolinguistics of writing (2002) (3)
- Introspection and the Description of Language Use (1981) (3)
- Urbanisation and linguistic multitude (2017) (3)
- Function and Status of Written Language in East Asia (1989) (3)
- ABRAM DE SWAAN. Words of the world: The global language system (2004) (3)
- The Interpretation of Ungrammatical Utterances (1981) (3)
- The power to choose and its sociolinguistic implications (2006) (3)
- Population Implosion: Coping With The Unknown (2011) (2)
- Language Regimes in Transformation (2008) (2)
- Writing systems and literacy: the alphabetic myth revisited (1994) (2)
- Changing economic values of German and Japanese (2007) (2)
- Research Methods in the Psychology of Reading Methoden der psychologischen Leseforschung (1996) (2)
- Outline of a theory of diglossia. Commentaries (2002) (2)
- Sociolinguistics: Diglossia and bilingualism: functional restrictions on language choice (2005) (2)
- Japanese and German language education in the UK: problems, parallels, and prospects (2007) (2)
- Choice in Language (2004) (2)
- A Bibliography on Writing and Written Language (1996) (2)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy: Literacy and writing reform (2012) (2)
- Language and National Unity. (1987) (2)
- Alternativen zum Alphabet (1983) (2)
- In : What Are National Languages Good For ? (2007) (1)
- Literacy, Power and Social Justice: Adrian Blackledge (2002) (1)
- Methoden der Textproduktionsforschung Research Methods in the Psychology of Writing (1996) (1)
- Mother tongue – for better or worse? (1997) (1)
- Remains of the day: language orphans and the decline of German as a medical lingua franca in Japan (2007) (1)
- Arbitrariness and Double Articulation in Writing (2017) (1)
- Communicating across generations: age as a factor of linguistic choice (2005) (1)
- Writing regime change: a research agenda (2022) (1)
- Facts and discourses (2007) (1)
- NEW WORDS, COMPLEXITY AND ARBITRARINESS (1987) (1)
- Lesen als Textverarbeitung Text Processing in Reading (1996) (1)
- Thrifty monolingualism and luxuriating plurilingualism (2007) (1)
- Is the promotion of languages such as German and Japanese abroad still appropriate today (2007) (1)
- The debate on English as an official language in Japan (2007) (1)
- Observing the Native Doer: Prelinguistic Behavior among Infants and Young Children (1981) (1)
- The Native Speaker and Indeterminacy (1981) (1)
- Der Erwerb der basalen Lese- und Schreibfertigkeiten The Acquisition of Basic Reading and Writing Skills (1996) (1)
- Sociolinguistics: Language and identity: individual, social, national (2005) (1)
- Quine on Introspection in Linguistics (1981) (1)
- Language masters: defying linguistic materialism (1999) (1)
- Language and Society (2017) (1)
- On the Precariousness of Linguistic Introspection (1981) (1)
- Malinche, Patron-Saint of Informants? (1981) (1)
- Demographic Change in Japan and the EU: Comparative Perspectives. Selected Papers from the VSJF Annual Conference 2008 (2010) (1)
- On the relationship between writing system, written language, and text processing (1992) (1)
- Writing and Society: Notes (2013) (1)
- Commentary: Spelling with a Capital "S" (1998) (1)
- Aspekte und Probleme des Leseunterrichts: Erstlesen Aspects and Problems of the Teaching of Reading: Beginning Reading Skills (1996) (1)
- Sociolinguistics: Code-switching: linguistic choices across language boundaries (2005) (1)
- Pope Paul VI (2016) (1)
- Michael Kelly (ed.): Languages After Brexit: How the UK Speaks to the World (2018) (1)
- Sociolinguistics: Choice and change (2005) (1)
- The Chinese language: Fact and fantasy John DeFrancis (1988) (1)
- Review of “Rethinking writing” by Roy Harris (2001) (0)
- Monica Heller, Lindsay A. Bell, Michelle Daveluy, Mireille McLaughlin and Hubert Noël: Sustaining the Nation: The Making and Moving of Language and Nation (2017) (0)
- Writing and Society: Bibliography (2013) (0)
- Sealed for eternity? Review of ‘Unsealing the Indus Script. Anatomy of its Decipherment’ Malati J. Shendge. (2010) (0)
- Geschichte der Didaktik und Methodik des Schreib- und Aufsatzunterrichts History of the Didactics and Methodology of Instruction in Writing and Essay Writing (1996) (0)
- Nanette Gottlieb, Kanji politics: Language policy and Japanese script; J. Marshall Unger, Literacy and script reform in Occupation Japan: Reading between the lines (1998) (0)
- Writing and Society: The tyranny of writing and the dominance of vernacular speech (2013) (0)
- What Does a Native Speaker Know about the Verb KILL (1981) (0)
- Also from Blackwell Publishers (2014) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: Language spread, shift and maintenance: how groups choose their language (2005) (0)
- On language policy in the age of globalization with good governance (2007) (0)
- ENGLISH EDUCATION IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY (1998) (0)
- 1. ‘Who am I?’ Identity in philosophy (2019) (0)
- The Impact of Writing on Language (1984) (0)
- Geschichte der Didaktik und Methodik des Leseunterrichts und der Lektüre History of the Didactics and Methodology of Instruction in Reading and Literature (1996) (0)
- The Perception of Words and Letters Wort- und Buchstabenerkennung (1996) (0)
- Introduction: aging and language (2009) (0)
- Dimensions of Sociolinguistics (1988) (0)
- Writing Systems: Bibliography (2002) (0)
- 3. Given or constructed? Identity in cultural anthropology (2019) (0)
- Writing Systems: Signs of segments (2002) (0)
- Aspekte und Probleme des Leseunterrichts: Weiterführendes Lesen Aspects and Problems of the Teaching of Reading: Advanced Reading Skills (1996) (0)
- Population ageing and social change (2007) (0)
- Markus Rheindorf and Ruth Wodak (eds.): Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Migration Control, Language Policy, Identity and Belonging (2021) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: Politeness: cultural dimensions of linguistic choice (2005) (0)
- 6. ‘Your station in life’ (2019) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: Internet resources (2005) (0)
- Geschichte des Buches The History of the Book (1994) (0)
- Cross-Linguistic Analyses of Basic Reading Processes Crosslinguistische Analysen basaler Aspekte des Leseprozesses (1996) (0)
- Contemporary Japan : journal of the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (2010) (0)
- Native Creation of Writing Systems Autochthone Erstverschriftung (1994) (0)
- Using Hawaiian language newspapers generates unique research (2012) (0)
- Das Blickverhalten beim Lesen Eye Movements During Reading (1996) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: Language planning: communication demands, public choice, utility (2005) (0)
- The Teaching of Reading and Writing in the Arabic-Speaking World Lese- und Schreibunterricht im arabischen Sprachraum (1996) (0)
- Well-being in ageing societies : perspectives from China, Germany and Japan = 健康老龄化: 中、徳、日的多学科研究 : international workshop : 23-25 October 2013, Beijing, PR China (2014) (0)
- Effects of globalization on minority languages in Europe … focusing on Celtic languages (2007) (0)
- Phonetische Transkription Phonetic Transcription (1996) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: Preface to the second edition (2013) (0)
- Book reviewThe Chinese language: Fact and fantasy: John DeFrancis, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984. 330 pp. $20.00 (cloth), $12.50 (paperback). (1988) (0)
- Writing Systems: Mixed systems (2002) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: The language of choice (2005) (0)
- Codification by Means of Foreign Systems Erstverschriftung durch fremde Systeme (1994) (0)
- John C. Maher & Kyoko Yashiro (eds.), Multilingual Japan . ( Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development , 18:1/2.) Clevedon (UK) & Philadelphia (PA): Multilingual Matters, 1995. Pp. 164. Hb $59.00 (1997) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: Select letters: a major divide (2013) (0)
- “How average am I?” Youths in a super-aged society (2018) (0)
- Writing and Society: The society of letters (2013) (0)
- Michael Kelly (ed.): Languages After Brexit: How the UK Speaks to the World (2018) (0)
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (2016) (0)
- Historisch-systematischer Aufriß der psychologischen Schreibforschung Historical Outline of Psychological Research on Writing (1996) (0)
- Catherine the Great (2016) (0)
- Wherein Lies ‘Talked-About’ Reality? (1981) (0)
- Select letters: a major divide (2005) (0)
- Writing Systems: Analysis and interpretation (2002) (0)
- Writing and Society: The past in the present and the seeds of the public sphere (2013) (0)
- Civil Society and Happiness: Japan and Beyond (2014) (0)
- Underdeterminacy and Plausibility in Word-Formation (1983) (0)
- Writing Systems: What is writing? (2002) (0)
- Politeness: cultural dimensions of linguistic choice (2013) (0)
- Bedingungen der Aneignung und Vermittlung von Lesen und Schreiben Conditions of the Acquisition and Teaching of Reading and Writing (1996) (0)
- Writing and identity (2020) (0)
- Writing Systems: Psycholinguistics of writing (2002) (0)
- Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana (2016) (0)
- 3.11 From one Disaster to another: Japan’s Earthquake (2021) (0)
- Writing and Society: Written and unwritten language (2013) (0)
- Tokio or Tokyo? Dschudo or Judo? On writing foreign names (2007) (0)
- Sociolinguistics and the English writing system (2016) (0)
- Writing and Society: Writing and literacy in the digitalized world (2013) (0)
- Claude Truchot, L'anglais dans le monde contemporain [English in the contemporary world]. (Collection l'ordre des mots.) Paris: Le Robert, 1990. Pp. 416. (1992) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: Communicating across generations: age as a factor of linguistic choice (2013) (0)
- Concerning the range of pragmatics. A review of Siegfried J. Schmidt, ed., pragmatik/pragmatics, 2 (1977) (0)
- Monica Heller, Lindsay A. Bell, Michelle Daveluy, Mireille McLaughlin and Hubert Noël: Sustaining the Nation: The Making and Moving of Language and Nation (2018) (0)
- The Literate Native Speaker: Some Intellectual Consequences of the Language of Schooling (1981) (0)
- The Chinese language: Fact and fantasy (1988) (0)
- The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure (review) (2000) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: Gendered speech: sex as a factor of linguistic choice (2005) (0)
- Book Reviews (2004) (0)
- Literacy and inequality (2013) (0)
- Dutch and German (2022) (0)
- Writing Systems: The basic options: meaning and sound (2002) (0)
- GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE (1981) (0)
- Introduction: an ‘Identity’ wave (2019) (0)
- Japanese Propriety, Past and Present (2023) (0)
- Linguistic Society of America Review: [untitled] Author(s): Penelope Brown Reviewed work(s): Conversational Routine: Explorations in Standardized Communication Situations and Prepatterned Speech by Florian Coulmas (2007) (0)
- Aspekte und Probleme des Schreibunterrichts: Aufsatzunterricht Aspects and Problems of the Teaching of Writing: Instruction in Essay Writing (1996) (0)
- Traditionelle Schreibmaterialien und -techniken Traditional Writing Materials and Techniques (1994) (0)
- The Teaching of Reading and Writing in East Asia Lese- und Schreibunterricht in Ostasien (1996) (0)
- 7. Citizenship, legal status, and proof of identity (2019) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: Standard and dialect: social stratification as a factor of linguistic choice (2005) (0)
- Writing Systems: Appendix: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 1 (2002) (0)
- Introduction: notions of language (2013) (0)
- How to Write History? (2023) (0)
- East Asian Migrants in Western Europe (2020) (0)
- Writing Systems: Consonants and vowels (2002) (0)
- The Native Speaker in his New Found Body (1981) (0)
- Aspekte und Probleme des Schreibunterrichts: Erstschreiben Aspects and Problems of the Teaching of Writing: Beginning Writing Skills (1996) (0)
- Choice and change (2013) (0)
- Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof (2016) (0)
- Geschichte des Lesens The History of Reading (1994) (0)
- 3.11 From One Disaster to Another: Japan’s Earthquake (2021) (0)
- The Economics of Language in a Global Community (1998) (0)
- Language, Writing, and Mobility (2022) (0)
- Face value (1992) (0)
- 9. ‘They don’t speak our language’ (2019) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: Research ethics (2013) (0)
- Tessa Carroll. Language Planning and Language Change in Japan (2002) (0)
- Editorial (2010) (0)
- Index of Authors Cited (2011) (0)
- A Minimum Morale on how not to Listen to the Native Speaker (1981) (0)
- Linguistic Minorities and Literacy: Language Policy Issues in Developing Countries@@@Sprache und Staat: Studien zur Sprachplanung und Sprachpolitik (1987) (0)
- Aspekte und Probleme des Leseunterrichts: Literaturunterricht Aspects and Problems of the Teaching of Reading: Instruction in Literature (1996) (0)
- Howard Giles’ Identity in Everyday Life (2018) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: Introduction: notions of language (2005) (0)
- Language in Japanese society. Current issues in sociolinguistics: Fred C.C. Peng, ed., Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1975. 246 pp. ¥ 1,800. (1977) (0)
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2016) (0)
- Writing Systems: A note on fonts (2002) (0)
- Government of the elderly, by the elderly and for the elderly (2007) (0)
- 8. Selfhood and personality (2019) (0)
- One man's view : a European perspective on east and west (1990) (0)
- 3. Prescriptivism and Writing Systems (2016) (0)
- 68. Politics and policies of language (2016) (0)
- WHAT WRITNG DOES TO LANGUAGE (1987) (0)
- 10. Who is behind the mask? Identity in literature (2019) (0)
- Information from the German Institute for Japanese Studies (2006) (0)
- King Sejong the Great (2016) (0)
- 4. Adam and Eve, Hijra, LGBTQs, and the shake-up of gender identities (2019) (0)
- The case for choice … language preferences in Japanese academic publishing (2007) (0)
- Writing Systems: Signs of words (2002) (0)
- The Devanagari Writing System Das Devanagari- Schriftsystem (1996) (0)
- Writing and Society: Writing reform (2013) (0)
- Longevity risk and pension funds (2007) (0)
- 2. Identity in logic and the classical law of thought (2019) (0)
- Conclusion: The Identity of Identity (2019) (0)
- Introductory remarks (1988) (0)
- Writing Systems: Vowel incorporation (2002) (0)
- Alcuin of York (2016) (0)
- Sociolinguistics: Glossary of terms (2005) (0)
- Challenges for language policy in today’s Japan (2007) (0)
- Writing Systems: Signs of syllables (2002) (0)
- The Bitter Fruits of Success (2021) (0)
- The socialization of care (2007) (0)
- 5. Identity in politics (2019) (0)
- Cultural manifold analysis on national character (2021) (0)
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