Patrick HEINRICH

Sono un sociolinguista specializzato nelle lingue del Giappone. La mia ricerca si estende oltre la sociolinguistica e include la storia della linguistica, l'ideologia linguistica, lingue in pericolo di estinzione, e la comunicazione urbana. Ho esperienza istituzionale in Germania, Giappone e Italia. Pubblico e insegno principalmente in inglese, ma parlo anche tedesco, giapponese, francese e italiano. Ho avuto la fortuna di studiare con Florian Coulmas, Jiří Neustupný, Fumio Inoue, Shinsho Miyara e Josef Kreiner. Mi piace collaborare nella ricerca e nelle pubblicazioni con studiosi di tutto il mondo. Nell'insegnamento, spero di condividere la gioia di studiare. Per ulteriori informazioni su di me, consultare l'elenco sottostante.

Formazione academica

1998: MA in Linguistics and Japanese Studies (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany)

2002: Dr. phil in Japanese Studies (Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg, Germany)

2005: Habilitation thesis in Japanese Studies (Duisburg-Essen University, Germany)

Occupazione e borse di studio a tempo pieno

1998–1999: Research assistant, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

2000–2001: PhD scholarship by DAAD

2001–2006: Assistant professor, Duisburg-Essen University

2006–2008: Associate professor, Duisburg-Essen University

2008–2010: JSPS/Humboldt-fellow, University of the Ryukyus

2010–2013: Associate Professor Dokkyo University

2013–2014: Professor Dokkyo University

2014–2021: Associate Professor Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice

Since 2021: Professor Ca‘ Foscari University of Venice

Editorial boards

Associate Editor: East Asian Pragmatics (University of Toronto Press)

Editorial Board: The Endangered Language Yearbook (Brill), Contemporary Japan (Taylor & Francis), Current Issues in Language Planning (Taylor & Francis), International Quarterly of Asian Studies (Heidelberg University Press), Kotoba to shakai (Sangensha),  Études japonaises (L’Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès), Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics (Edinburgh University Press)

Fellowships

Since 2016: University of Hokkaido: lecturer at the annual summer school

2026: Visiting professor University Toulouse Jean-Jaurès

2025: Erasmus teacher exchange: University of Ljubljana

2019: Erasmus teacher exchange: University of Vienna

2016: Erasmus teacher exchange: University of Helsinki

2016: Visiting professor: Duisburg-Essen University

2015: Fellow: University of Lapland

2013: Visiting professor: University Toulouse Jean-Jaurès

2010–2013: Fellow: Gakushuin University

2008–2010: Fellow: Okinawa International University

2006–2013: Fellow: Hosei University

2004: Visiting Fellow: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Impatto della ricerca

Google Scholar: Citations: 1600+ / h-index 21 / i10-index 43

Researchgate: 700+, 70,000+ reads

Premi

2020: Honorary President, Ryukyuan Heritage Language Society

2014: Honorary member, Foundation for Endangered Languages

2010: Tokugawa Award, Japanese Association for Sociolinguistic Sciences

2002: Annual Award of the Duisburg University Society: Best Dissertation of the Year

Presentazioni recenti e future (dal 2024)

23.09.2025: Invited lecture: Language endangerment and well-being in Japan. University of Vienna.

13.09.2025 Commentator on the panel: Language repression and reclamation: What needs to be done? What can be done? International Conference on the Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages. Kyoto University.

13.09.2025 Panel presentation: Language and well-being from a Welfare Linguistics perspective. International Conference on the Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages. Kyoto University.

13.09.2025 Keynote lecture: Language and well-being in Yomitan Village and Setouchi Town: A Contrastive Analysis. International Conference on the Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages. Kyoto University.

05.05.2025 Decolonizing toponymic systems in the Japanese Archipelago. Symposium on Environmental Humanities. Ca’Foscari University of Venice.

26.02.2025 Invited lecture: What is lost in language loss in Japan? Ljubljana University.

15.12.2024 Workshop: Reclaiming endangered languages in a welfare linguistics framework. 20th Linguapax Asia Symposium. Hiroshima Eikei University.

14.12.2024 Keynote lecture: Language as a relational good: Language and well-being in the Ryukyu Islands. 20th Linguapax Asia Symposium. Hiroshima Eikei University. 

05.08.–09.08.2024 Intensive course: The sociolinguistics of language and well-being. Sapporo: Hokkaido University.

05.03.2024 Invited lecture: Multilingualism in Japan: Transformational Changes. University of Tokyo.