Jean-Pierre van Noppen (1946 - ) holds a senior
professorship in English linguistics at the Université Libre de
Bruxelles , where he has been active as a grammarian,
lexicographer, bibliographer and as editor with the Revue belge
de Philologie et d’Histoire and the Belgian Journal of
English Language and Literature. He teaches English grammar,
semantics and pragmatics. His current teaching and research
interests are in non-literary (pragma)stylistics, theolinguistics
and critical discourse analysis. His publications include over a
hundred articles and the collective volumes Theolinguistics,
Metaphor and Religion, How to Do Things with
Metaphor, Grammaire de Référence de l’Anglais, two
bibliographies on Metaphor, New Horizons in
Stylistics?, Text and Ideology, and, most recently,
Transforming Words, a book in critical theolinguistics on
early Wesleyan discourse. For a full list of publications, go to
personal
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