Hartmut Haberland

Hartmut Haberland (born 3 February 1948 in Hanover, Germany) is a German-Danish linguist and professor emeritus at Roskilde University in Denmark.

In 1977, he founded the Journal of Pragmatics together with Jacob Mey. Currently, he is a co-editor of Pragmatics and Society, and an editor of Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, the journal of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen.

In 2005, Haberland became a Danish citizen.

The launch of Journal of Pragmatics (with co-editor Jacob L. Mey) went against the Chomskyan perspectives on linguistics at the time. This was part of the establishment of an interdisciplinary linguistics. He retired in 2018.

He has been a guest professor, researcher or summer school professor in Athens (1993), Soka (Japan) (1995), Beijing (1996), Guangzhou (2006), Osaka (2009), Hong Kong (2010 and 2011) and Shanghai (2019)). Krakow (2017), and Shanghai (2019).

In 2011, a festschrift was published with contributions based on a symposium held at his 60th birthday in 2008.

In 2017, Elsevier Publishers inaugurated the Jacob L. Mey and Hartmut Haberland Early Career Award for young and promising researchers in the field of Pragmatics.