Dr. Heinz Kreutz Senior Lecturer
Overview
Heinz Kreutz is a senior lecturer in German Studies. His main interests are teaching German as a foreign language, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, social dialectology, second language acquisition, contrastive rhetoric and cross-cultural communication, discourse and text analysis, business German and German for special purposes.
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Contact Details
Room W313
Menzies Building
(Building 11)
Consultation by appointment
Contact
Phone: 03 9905 2239
FAX: 03 9905 5437
Email:
heinz.kreutz@arts.monash.edu.au
Mailing Address:
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Building
11
Monash University
Clayton 3800
AUSTRALIA
Research Interests
Heinz Kreutz's main contribution to the field of cross-cultural academic discourse has been through his collaboration with Professor Michael Clyne, first as a research assistant (as early as 1984) and joint researcher and colleague (ongoing). The role of English as a lingua franca in German and European academic culture has been a hotly debated issue in recent years. The forthcoming joint publication Clyne/Kreutz 'Kulturalitt der Wissenschaftskommunikation' ("culture and academic discourse") revisits the issue with a view to necessary further research.
Publications
Monash Review of Coursework: Final Report and Recommendations (December 2007) (pdf format)
Last 5 Years
Chapters and Articles
- with M. Clyne, 'Kulturalitt der Wissenschaftskommunikation', in A. Wierlacher (ed.),
- Handbuch Interkulturelle Germanistik (in press, Mnchen: Wilhelm Fink 2003)
- 'Deutsch-deutsche Kommunikationserfahrungen nach der 'Wende' aus australischer Perspektive,' in I. Khn, U. Fix, and G. Antos (eds) Deutsche Sprach- und Kommunikationserfahrungen zehn jahre nach der Wende, (Tbingen: Niemeyer 2001), pp. 217-231.
Career-best publications
- Sprachliche Wiedervereinigung Ost-West. Eine pragmalinguistische Untersuchung zu Erscheiniungen kommunikativer Unsicherheit bei jungen Ostbrgern. Mannhein:Institut fr Deutsche Sprache. (ISBN: 3-922641-65-2; 315p.).
- with M. Clyne, 'Kulturalitt der Wissenschaftskommunikation', in A. Wierlacher (ed.),
- Handbuch Interkulturelle Germanistik (Mnchen: Wilhelm Fink.forthcoming)
- and A. Harres, 'Some observations on the distribution and function of hedging in German
- and English academic writing,' in A. Duszak (ed.), Culture and Styles of Academic Discourse, (Berlin: de Gruyter 1997), pp. 181-202.
- 'Deutsch-deutsche Kommunikationserfahrungen nach der 'Wende' aus australischer Perspektive,' in I. Khn, U. Fix, and G. Antos (eds) Deutsche Sprach- und Kommunikationserfahrungen zehn jahre nach der Wende, (Tbingen: Niemeyer 2001), pp. 217-231.
- 'Pragmatic and linguistic implications of the convergence between East and West Germany: some observations on hedging phenomena and modifying devices as regional markers in the speech of young East Germans,' in H. Schrder and R. Markkanen (eds), Hedging and Discourse (Berlin: de Gruyter 1997), pp. 208-231.
- 'Aspects of communicative uncertainty in the language of young East Germans during the 'Wende', Monash University Linguistics Papers vol. 1, no. 1 (1997), pp.11-24.
- 'Pragmatic implications of the convergence between east and west Germany,' in J. Hajek (ed.), Working Papers in Linguistics no.13 (Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press 1993), pp. 63-78.
- and M. Clyne and J. Hoeks, 'Cross-cultural responses to academic discourse,' Folia Linguistica no. 22 (1988), pp. 457-475.
- and M. Clyne, 'The nature and function of digression and other discourse structure phenomena in academic German.' Working Papers for Migrant and Intercultural Studies no. 8 (1987), pp. 1-22.
- Pragmatic and linguistic implications of the convergence between East and West Germany: some observations on hedging phenomena and modifying devices as regional markers in the speech of young East Germans,' in H. Schrder and R. Markkanen (eds), Hedging and Discourse (Berlin: de Gruyter 1997), pp. 208-231.
- Aspects of communicative uncertainty in the language of young East Germans during the Wende', Monash University Linguistics Papers vol. 1, no. 1 (1997), pp.11-24.
- and A. Harres, 'Some observations on the distribution and function of hedging in German and English academic writing,' in A. Duszak (ed.), Culture and Styles of Academic Discourse, (Berlin: de Gruyter 1997), pp. 181-202.