Mey, Jacob L.

Jacob L. Mey is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense Main Campus. In 1977 he founded, with Hartmut Haberland, the "Journal of Pragmatics," of which he is the chief editor. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Zaragoza, Spain in 1992. His latest publications include "The Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics" (editor, 1998), and "When Voices Clash: A Study in Literary Pragmatics" (1999).