Reinhard Heuberger
Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Room: 40328
Office hours: Wednesday, 15:15 - 16:15
Research and teaching interests
- Lexicography (learners' dictionaries, online dictionaries, Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary)
- Ecolinguistics
- Human-Animal Studies
- The Internet as a resource for (applied) linguists
Administration
- Studienbevollmächtigter für BA/MA
- Faculty representative for sustainable development
- Coordination of linguistic courses
- Homepage
- Contact person for buddy/mentoring programme
CV
Degree in English Philology and American Studies at Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck. Mag.phil. 1998, Dr.phil. 2000.
Ph.D. thesis: Monolingual Dictionaries for Foreign Learners of English: A Constructive Evaluation of the State-of-the-art Reference Works in Book Form and on CD-ROM.
Selected Publications
1) Heuberger, Reinhard. 2023. "Innovation in monolingual English learner’s dictionaries: A historical perspective". Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: Historical perspectives. Eds. Richard Smith and Tim Giesler. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. p. 59-80.
2) Heuberger, Reinhard. 2020. "Monolingual Online Dictionaries for Learners of English and the Opportunities of the Electronic Medium: A Critical Survey". International Journal of Lexicography. 33/4. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 404 –416.
3) Heuberger, Reinhard. 2018. "Overcoming anthropocentrism with anthropomorphic and physiocentric uses of language?". The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics. Eds. Alwin Fill & Hermine Penz. New York and London: Routledge. p. 342 - 354.
4) Heuberger, Reinhard. 2016. "Learners’ dictionaries: history and development; current issues". The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography. Ed. Philip Durkin. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 25 - 43.