"Peter Harder" is a Danish linguist and professor of English language at the University of Copenhagen. He is notable as a cofounder of the Danish Functionalism/Danish Functional Linguistics stage of The Copenhagen school (linguistics)/the Copenhagen School in linguistics. He has worked extensively with functional linguistics/functional linguistic theories and speech act theory. In Denmark, he is best known among the general public for his outspoken criticism against the Danish government's tight regulation of research, which he perceives as a threat to academic freedom.

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