Dr Heinz-Josef Kreutz - Researcher Profile

Biography

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.

Qualifications

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2010

PHD

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1998

ARTS (HONS)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 1986

Publications

Book Chapters

Kreutz, H.J., 2001, German communication experiences after German Unification from the australian perspective, in German language and communication experiences ten years after German Unification, eds G Antos, U Fix, I Kuhn, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, pp. 217-231.

Kreutz, H., 1997, 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 Hedging and Discourse, de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 208-231.

Kreutz, H., Harres, A., 1997, Some observations on the distribution and function of hedging in German and English academic writing, in Culture and Styles of Academic Discourse, de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 181-201.

Journal Articles

Kreutz, H., 1997, Aspects of communicative uncertainty in the language of young East Germans during the Wende, Monash University Linguistics Papers, vol 1, Monash University, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 11-23.

Other

Kreutz, H., 1998, Pragmatic implications of the convergence between East and West Germany.

Kreutz, H., 1998, Pragmatics implications of the convergence between East & West Germany.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

"Lernkrimis" as part of the German language curriculum.

Supervisors:

Kreutz, H (Main), Weller, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and Facilitating the L2 Listening Comprehension in an EFL.

Supervisors:

Kreutz, H (Main), Sharifian, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

What factors will influence mataphor translation on cosmetic online advertisement at discourse level?.

Supervisors:

Kreutz, H (Main), Huang, H (Associate), Tobias, S (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Arness, M.

Program of Study:

Language, culture and ideology: socio-cultural and ideological implications of the adoption of anglicisms in French and German. (PHD) 2005.

Supervisors:

Kreutz, H (Main).

Student:

Franke, K.

Program of Study:

"We call it Springbok-German!": language contact in the German communities in South Africa. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Kreutz, H (Main), Burridge, K (Associate).

Student:

Kristoffersen, V.

Program of Study:

TALES IN TRANSLATION: The German editions of the Grimms? "Kinder- und Hausmarchen" and their English translations, with a comparative analysis of 'Rumpelstiltskin'. (Masters) 2006.

Supervisors:

Kreutz, H (Main), Wilson, R (Associate).

Student:

Menis, A.

Program of Study:

The Writing's on the Wall - A discourse analytical approach to graffiti. (Masters) 2004.

Supervisors:

Kreutz, H (Main).

Student:

Oliver, C.

Program of Study:

LEHRWERK FACILITATION OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE. (PHD) 2003.

Supervisors:

Kreutz, H (Main).

Student:

Schneider, B.

Program of Study:

FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: CLOSING THE GAP OF LEARNER AND TEACHER PERCEPTIONS. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Kreutz, H (Main).

Student:

Willoughby, L.

Program of Study:

"You have to speak it at least". Language and identity maintenance among Australian migrant teenagers. (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Deumert, A (Main), Bradshaw, J (Associate), Kreutz, H (Associate).