Holger Limberg

List of John Benjamins publications in which Holger Limberg is involved.

Titles

Advice in Discourse

Edited by Holger Limberg and Miriam A. Locher

This multi-faceted collection of research papers on Advice in Discourse focuses on advisory practices in different contexts. Data is drawn from academic, educational and training settings, health-related practices, and computer-mediated communication. The languages involved are Cantonese, English,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 221] 2012. ix, 376 pp.

The Interactional Organization of Academic Talk: Office hour consultations

Holger Limberg

This book provides interesting and critical insights into a common university practice, the academic office hour. Office hours are a discursive site for a variety of different issues, ranging from administrative matters to course-related and study-related concerns. The study offers both an… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 198] 2010. xiv, 397 pp.

Articles

Limberg, Holger 2025 Chapter 4. On teachers’ use of the L1 in primary English classrooms in Germany Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts: Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school, Frisch, Stefanie and Karen Glaser (eds.), pp. 64–91 | Chapter

This study deals with how teachers make use of their L1 in primary English classrooms in Germany. The database for the analysis consists of 24 lesson transcripts from grades 3 and 4 which were taken from the Primary English Classroom Corpus (PECC) (Limberg, 2019). The analysis first focuses on… read more

Locher, Miriam A. and Holger Limberg 2012 Chapter 1. Introduction to advice in discourse Advice in Discourse, Limberg, Holger and Miriam A. Locher (eds.), pp. 1–28 | Chapter