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'''Edgar W. Schneider''' (born 30 May 1954) is a German linguist of Austrian origin. He is emeritus professor of English linguistics at the [[:de:Universität Regensburg|University of Regensburg]], Germany, where he held the chair of English linguistics from 1993 to 2020. From 2021 to 2023 he was a visiting senior fellow at the National University of Singapore for one semester each year. He is known in [[World Englishes]] research mainly as the originator of the [[Schneider's dynamic model|Dynamic Model]] of the evolution of Postcolonial Englishes.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Schneider|first=Edgar W. (Edgar Werner)|date=2003|title=The Dynamics of New Englishes: From Identity Construction to Dialect Birth|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/44768|journal=Language|volume=79|issue=2|pages=233–281|doi=10.1353/lan.2003.0136|s2cid=59498182 |issn=1535-0665}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Schneider|first=Edgar W. |title=Postcolonial English: varieties around the world|date=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-511-28593-6|location=Cambridge|oclc=271790271}}</ref>
== Education and career ==
Schneider was born in [[Kirchdorf an der Krems]], Austria. He studied at [[University of Graz]] between 1972 and 1978. Later, he completed his PhD in 1981 and his [[habilitation]] in 1987 at the [[University of Bamberg]], Germany. In 1988 he was an interim professor at the [[University of Trier]], and in 1988/1989 an adjunct associate professor at the [[University of Georgia]], US. In 1989 he became a full professor at the [[Free University of Berlin]]. In 1993 he took over the chair at Regensburg.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider - Universität Regensburg|url=https://www.uni-regensburg.de/language-literature-culture/english-linguistics/staff/schneider/index.html|access-date=2021-05-04|website=www.uni-regensburg.de}}</ref> 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 [[International Society for the Linguistics of English]] (ISLE) in 2016–2018. He edited the scholarly journal ''[https://benjamins.com/catalog/eww English World-Wide]'' (Amsterdam: Benjamins) from 1997 to 2013 and its associated book series ''[https://benjamins.com/catalog/veaw Varieties of English Around the World]'' from 1997 to 2011. He was a co-editor of the voluminous ''Handbook of Varieties of English'' (2004)<ref>{{Cite book |title=A handbook of varieties of English: a multimedia reference tool |date=2004|publisher=Mouton de Gruyter|editor=Edgar W. Schneider |editor2=Bernd Kortmann|isbn=3-11-017532-0|location=Berlin|oclc=56880203}}</ref> and also of the ''Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes'' (2020),<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Cambridge handbook of world Englishes|date=2020|editor=Daniel Schreier|editor2=Marianne Hundt|editor3=Edgar W. Schneider|isbn=978-1-108-34940-6|location=Cambridge|oclc=1120906904}}</ref> and is the author of an introductory textbook, ''English Around the World'' (2011, 2nd ed. 2020).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schneider|first=Edgar W. |title=English around the world: an introduction|date=2020|isbn=978-1-108-44226-8|edition=Second |location=Cambridge|oclc=1193301209}}</ref> He edits a series of short monographs for Cambridge University Press, called [https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/elements/world-englishes 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 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.
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