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Languages, Linguistics and Film

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf, StEx (Kassel), MA (Kassel), PhD (Manchester)

Falco

Reader in German Linguistics

Email: f.pfalzgraf@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8321
Room Number: Francis Bancroft Building 2.39
Website: https://pfalzgraf.net
Office Hours: Individually by appointment

Profile

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf is a specialist on Sociolinguistics. His main research interests lie within five areas: 1. Gender across languages. 2. Linguistic Purism. 3. The application of discourse analysis. 4. The relationships between politics, language, and culture. 5. Text book / school book analysis.

He is the organiser and leader of the International Research Network  “Language and Gender: Academic Research and Practical Implementation” which brings together practitioners and academics from various different cultural and linguistic backgrounds (see "Research").

Dr Pfalzgraf's research on Austrian and German language protection organisations has caught the attention of the mass media. His work has been mentioned repeatedly in The Economist, The Guardian, Stern, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and others, as well as in internet publications based outside Europe.

He has been teaching at university level for over 25 years. His teaching is informed by his research. He has consistently received excellent student feedback and has been repeatedly nominated for teaching prizes.

He currently teaches German Linguistics, English Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics to undergraduate students. He teaches Applied Linguistics and General Linguistics to Masters students, and he (co-)supervises doctoral students in areas within and beyond his main research interests. Dr Pfalzgraf is happy to receive proposals/ applications for potential doctoral research.

Dr Falco Pfalzgraf is the co-founder and convenor of the MA in English Language Teaching  / MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) for which he also teaches a compulsory module. 

He is the Convenor of the Language and Linguistics Section at the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (CAGCR) and has been chairing the London/UK branch of the Association for the German Language Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache [Gfds] since its foundation in 2010.

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