Geert Jacobs
Portrait on Ghent University website http://www.ntt.ugent.be/people#geert
CV Geert Jacobs is a Full Professor of Language for Specific Purposes at the department of Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium. He received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Antwerp in 1997 with a dissertation on the Metapragmatics of Press Releases.
He is the co-founder and head of the international NewsTalk&Text research group (www.ntt.ugent.be), which brings together researchers from all over Europe in the field of media discourse studies.
He has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of business communication, journalism and linguistic pragmatics.
He is currently teaching Business Communication and English for Specific Purposes in various Bachelor’s and post-graduate programmes at Ghent University. He's also an external lecturer at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano. He is vice-president for ABC, the international Association for Business Communication.
Selected publications
CV Geert Jacobs is a Full Professor of Language for Specific Purposes at the department of Linguistics at Ghent University, Belgium. He received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Antwerp in 1997 with a dissertation on the Metapragmatics of Press Releases.
He is the co-founder and head of the international NewsTalk&Text research group (www.ntt.ugent.be), which brings together researchers from all over Europe in the field of media discourse studies.
He has published widely in international peer-reviewed journals in the fields of business communication, journalism and linguistic pragmatics.
He is currently teaching Business Communication and English for Specific Purposes in various Bachelor’s and post-graduate programmes at Ghent University. He's also an external lecturer at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano. He is vice-president for ABC, the international Association for Business Communication.
Selected publications
- Jacobs, Geert & Els Tobback (2013). Is language a news value in Belgium? A case study of the use of Dutch-language quotes in the French-language TV news. Journalism Studies 14: 407-422.
- Jacobs, Geert (2011). Press conferences on the internet: technology, mediation and access in the news. Journal of Pragmatics 47: 1900-1911.
- NT&T (2011). Towards a linguistics of news production. Journal of Pragmatics 47: 1843-1852.
- Strobl, Carola & Geert Jacobs (2011). Assessing QuADEM : preliminary notes on a new method for evaluating online language learning courseware. COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING 24: 433 – 449.
- Jacobs, Geert & Stef Slembrouck (2010). Notes on Linguistic Ethnography as a liminal activity. Text & Talk 30: 235-244.
- Jacobs, Geert & Tom Van Hout (2009). Towards a process view of preformulation in press releases In: J. Renkema (ed.) Discourse of Course. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 239-252.
- Van Hout, Tom & Geert Jacobs (2008). News production theory and practice: fieldwork notes on power, interaction and agency. Pragmatics 18: 59-84.
- Sleurs, Kim & Geert Jacobs (2005). Beyond preformulation: an ethnographic perspective on press releases. Journal of Pragmatics 41: 1251-1273.
- Strobbe, Ilse & Geert Jacobs (2005). E-releases: A view from linguistic pragmatics. Public Relations Review 2: 289-291.
- Sleurs, Kim, Jacobs Geert & Luuk Van Waes (2003). Constructing press releases, constructing quotations: a case study. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7: 192-212.
- Jacobs Geert (1999). Preformulating the News: An Analysis of the Metapragmatics of Press Releases. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
- Jacobs Geert (1999). Self-reference in press releases”. Journal of Pragmatics 31: 219-242.
- Jacobs Geert (1998). Projected discourse: an analysis of receiver roles in press releases. Text 18: 505-523.