Research
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Ongoing project
Activities (current):
- Project manager "Goethe Dictionary" (Göttingen sub-project of the overall inter-academic project of the Academies Göttingen, Heidelberg and Berlin)
- Project leader "Wortgeschichte digital (Center for Digital Lexicography of the German Language)"
- Full member of the "Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities"
- Full member of the "German Academy for Language and Literature"
- Chairman of the Language Commission "German Academy for Language andLiterature" (Chair)
- Member of TRACES (Transdisciplinary Research Center for Exhibition Studies), University of Kassel and Kunsthochschule Kassel, as part of the founding of the "documenta Institute" (University of Kassel, City of Kassel, State of Hesse, Federal Government, documenta gGmbH)
- Member of the research network "Language and Knowledge"
- Scientific advisory board "Historiographia Linguistica"
- Scientific advisory board "Angermion. Yearbook for British-German Cultural Relations"
- Co-editor of "Studia Linguistica Germanica" (De Gruyter)
- Co-editor of the "Handbücher Sprachwissen (HSW)" (De Gruyter)
- Reviewerships: German Research Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Fond zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Irish Humanities and Social Sciences Research Council, The German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
Activities (completed):
- Member of the Board of Directors of TRACES (Transdisciplinary Research Center for Exhibition Studies)
- Chair of the"German Dictionary" (Grimm's Dictionary) steering committee
- Co-editor of "Medien - Literatur - Sprache" (MeLiS) (Peter Lang publishing house)
- Member of the working group for research into the history of German studies (German Literature Archive)
- Scientific Advisory Board of the German Comenius Society
Main research areas
Linguistic theory in the past and present, in particular the relationship between language and cognition
- Theory and practice of analyzing texts and discourses, including their transitions to rhetoric and stylistics
- Language and political, cultural and ethnic identity
- Lexicography of German