Jef Verschueren#

Present and Previous Positions

• 2000 - present Professor of Linguistics, University of Antwerp
• 1976 - 2000 Researcher for the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (later: Flemish Fund for Scientific Research), based at the University of Antwerp, from 1976 to 2000 (as doctoral researcher 1976-1980, post-doc 1980 - 1982, research associate 1982-1989, senior research associate 1989 - 1993, and research director 1993 - 2000)
• Visiting professorships:
• 2013 - 2016 'Dalian University of Technology, one month in each of three consecutive academic years; 6 April – 4 May 2014, May 2015, May 2016)
• 2009 - 2010 École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (9 months)
• 2004 School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Melbourne (3 months)
• 1981 - 1983 Linguistics Department, University of California at Berkeley (2 years)

• Linguistic pragmatics
• Theory formation in linguistic pragmatics
• Intercultural and international communication
• Discourse
• Language and ideology
• Linguistic ethnography
• Political language

• 28 April 2016, Concurrent Professor, Nanjing University
• May 2015, Honorary Guest Professorship, Dalian University of Technology
• April 2015, Overseas Honorary Advisory Member of the China Pragmatics Association
• March 2014, Overseas Honorary Advisory Member of the Pragmatics Society of Japan (PSJ)
• 20 December 2010, External Member of the Societas Scientiarum Fennica
• VLAC-award 2000, Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten
• Rockefeller Foundation residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center (8 February - 8 March 1997)
• Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord 1993 (a Flemish free speech award, received for the book Het Belgische Migrantendebat, co-authored with Jan Blommaert)

Curriculum Vitae

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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