Hans Bickel (Linguist)

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Hans Bickel (2012)

Hans Bickel (born February 8, 1957 in Blonay ) is a Swiss Germanist . He is editor-in-chief of the Swiss Idiotikon and adjunct professor at the University of Basel . His main focus is on variation linguistics , lexicography and digital humanities .

Life

Bickel spent his first years in the canton of Vaud , where his parents, who were born in Bern, worked as farmers. He attended schools in the Bernese Seeland , and then studied German , ethnology and folklore in Basel ; he passed his licentiate in 1984. He received his doctorate in 1994 at the request of Robert Schläpfer with a thesis on traditional shipping on the waters of German-speaking Switzerland, which was based on the data of the Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland . Previously, in 1990, he had spent a year in the United States , where he worked at Purdue University in West Lafayette , Indiana, at the Natural Language Processing Laboratory . From 1993 to 1996 he worked on the Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland under Rudolf Trüb .

Bickel has been working as an editor at the Schweizerischer Idiotikon in Zurich since 2005 , which he has headed together with Christoph Landolt since 2019 . With a collective habilitation, he became a private lecturer at the University of Basel in 2006 , and since 2012 he has worked there - parallel to his work at the Idiotikon - as adjunct professor .

Act

Bickel initiated digital access to the Swiss German dictionary and its digital semantic register. At the University of Basel, his most important task was the trinational project Variant Dictionary of German , as its Swiss director from 1997 to 2004 and, for the new edition, from 2012 to 2015. He was also involved in various projects of the Swiss National Science Foundation there .

Since 2006 he has been responsible for ortsnames.ch - the database of Swiss name books , a platform for Swiss place names , which is now maintained by the Swiss Idiotikon. Since 2016 he has been the project manager of the Solothurn town and field names book . Before that, Bickel had been a member of the board of trustees for the name book of the municipalities in the canton of Basel-Landschaft , which came out in 2017.

Bickel has been a member since 2003 and has been President of the Duden Committee of the Swiss Association for the German Language since 2017 , a body that serves as the official Swiss contact for the Duden editorial team and is responsible for the representation of Swiss High German in the publisher's lexicographical publications. He is also a permanent member of the Standing Committee for Geographical Names and the Advisory Board of the International Society for Dialectology of German, the Dictionary of Bavarian Dialects in Austria and the Center for Digital Lexicography of the German Language .

Publications (selection)

Swiss Idioticon and Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland

  • Word articles in volumes XVI and XVII of the Scheizerischen Idiotikons; Among other things, the articles (mostly including the associated compositions and derivatives) Worg (with worgen etc.), Wurg (with strangle etc.), Wart (with Bannwart etc.), Wasser (with the first half of the compositions), Wüsch (with wüschen ), the compounds with -zue (without simplex), Zäch ("Zecke") and Zëch ("Zeche", with zëche, Zëchete ).
  • Word maps in Volume VIII, Chapter Forest and Forestry, of the Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland; Felling the cards (a tree), ax, ax style, scythe style, flail style, hatchet, file, chain, wedge (twice), plow and furrow, among others .

Monographs

  • together with Christoph Landolt : Duden. Swiss high German. Dictionary of the standard language in German-speaking Switzerland. Edited by the Swiss Association for the German Language. Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Zurich 2012. 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition Dudenverlag, Berlin 2018.
  • Traditional shipping on the waters of German-speaking Switzerland. Word and thing according to the materials of the Language Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland. Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt / Salzburg 1995 (Sprachlandschaft 17 series) ( PDF ).

Essays

  • together with Lorenz Hofer and Sandra Suter: German dictionary of variants - NEW. Dynamics of the German standard variation from a lexicographical point of view. In: Roland Kehrein, Alfred Lameli and Stefan Rabanus (eds.): Regional variation of German. Projects and Perspectives. de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, pp. 541–562.
  • together with Lorenz Hofer: Good and appropriate standard German in Switzerland. In: Karina Schneider-Wiejowski, Birte Kellermeier-Rehbein and Jakob Haselhuber (eds.): Diversity, variation and position of the German language. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 79–100.
  • Progressive digitization. New access to the Idiotikon. In: Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (Ed.): 150 Years of the Swiss Idioticon: Contributions to the anniversary colloquium in Bern, June 15, 2012. Bern 2013, pp. 121-134 ( PDF ).
  • together with Markus Gasser, Annelies Häcki Buhofer , Lorenz Hofer and Christoph Schön: Schweizer Text Korpus - Theoretical Basics, Corpus Design and Query Options. In: Annelies Häcki Buhofer (Ed.): Advances in language and text corpus design and linguistic corpus analysis II. In: Linguistik online 39 (3/2009), pp. 5-31. DOI: 10.13092 / lo.39.474 ( bop.unibe.ch ).
  • Idiotikon digital. Considerations for an electronic edition of the Swiss German dictionary. In: Swiss German Dictionary. Swiss Idioticon. Report on the year 2006. [Zurich 2007], pp. 13–26 ( PDF ).
  • German in Switzerland as a national variety of German. In: Sprachreport 4, 2000, pp. 21–27 ( PDF ).
  • Dialect - local writing language - supra-regional printing language. Language norms in Basel at the end of the 16th century. In: Edith Funk, Werner König , Manfred Renn (eds.): Building blocks for the history of language. Lectures at the 13th workshop on Alemannic dialectology, September 29th to October 3rd in Augsburg. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, pp. 29-42 ( PDF ).
  • The technical language of fishing in Swiss German. In: L. Hoffmann, H. Kalverkämper and H. E. Wiegand (eds.): Technical languages. Languages ​​for special purposes. An international handbook for language research and terminology science. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998, pp. 1115–1120 (Handbooks on Linguistics and Communication Science 14).

Editing

  • together with Ulrich Ammon and Alexandra N. Lenz : German dictionary of variants. The standard language in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, East Belgium and South Tyrol as well as Romania, Namibia and Mennonite settlements. 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition. de Gruyter, Berlin 2016.
  • together with Ulrich Ammon and Jakob Ebner: German dictionary of variants. The standard language in Austria, Switzerland and Germany as well as in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, East Belgium and South Tyrol. de Gruyter, Berlin 2014.
  • together with Robert Schläpfer : Switzerland in four languages. With contributions by Walter Haas , Pierre Knecht, Ottavio Lurati , Jachen Curdin Arquint, Ricarda Liver , Werner Carigiet, Bruno Pedretti. Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt / Salzburg 2000 (Sprachlandschaft 25 series).
  • Multilingualism a challenge. With contributions by Reinhard Bichsel, Hans Bickel, Bernard Cathomas, Urs Dürmüller, Natalie Patthey, Bruno Pedretti, Robert Schläpfer, Beat Schmid and Federico Spiess. Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt / Salzburg 1994 (Sprachlandschaft 13 series).

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ SNSF P3 projects in which Hans Bickel is / was involved.
  2. ↑ ortsnames.ch
  3. ↑ Baselland Foundation for Location and Field Name Research ( Memento from September 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Swiss Duden Committee
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Hans Bickel on idiotikon.ch
personal data
SURNAME Bickel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Germanist, lexicographer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Blonay