Anatol Stefanowitsch

Anatol Stefanowitsch (2019)

Anatol Stefanowitsch (born April 9, 1970 in Berlin ) is a German linguist .

biography

Stefanowitsch studied English , linguistics and language teaching research at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 2001 from Rice University with a construction-grammatical study of analytical causative constructions of English. He was then a visiting professor at the University of Southern Denmark , before being offered a junior professorship in 2002 and a full professorship for English and linguistics at the Institute for General and Applied Linguistics at the University of Bremen in 2008 . From August 2010 he was professor for English linguistics at the University of Hamburg.

In April 2012 he was appointed professor for linguistics at the Institute for English Philology at the Free University of Berlin .

Act

In his research, Stefanowitsch deals with grammatical constructions and conceptual metaphors . His focus is on corpus linguistics .

Outside the specialist audience, Stefanowitsch became known as the operator of the Bremer Sprachblog , which was originally launched as a contribution to the Year of Humanities 2007 and maintained until 2010 , in which he prepared linguistic topics in a generally understandable manner and was particularly skeptical about language criticism (such as the now discontinued action Lebendiges Deutsch ) argued. From January 2010 to November 2012 he continued the work started in the Bremer Sprachblog in the Scilogs portal operated by Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlagsgesellschaft under the title Sprachlog . On November 28, 2012, an independent blog under the title Sprachlog went online, on which two other linguists in addition to Stefanowitsch publish.

Stefanowitsch is also the founder of the “ Anglicism of the Year ” initiative, founded in 2010, and chairman of the jury.

In 2018 Stefanowitsch published his polemic A Question of Morality on the subject of politically correct use of language and has since been a frequent speaker and interview guest on this topic.

Works (selection)

Kerstin Fischer, Anatol Stefanowitsch (Ed.): Construction grammar: From application to theory . Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-860-57788-3 .
Anatol Stefanowitsch, Stefan Th. Gries (eds.): Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-Based Approaches to Syntax and Lexis . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2006, ISBN 3-110-19826-6 .
Anatol Stefanowitsch, Stefan Th. Gries (Ed.): Corpus-based Approaches to Metaphor and Metonymy . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019827-0 .
Anatol Stefanowitsch, Kerstin Fischer (ed.): Construction grammar II: From construction to grammar . Stauffenburg Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86057-175-0 .
Anatol Stefanowitsch: A question of morality . Why we need politically correct language. Duden-Verlag, Mannheim 2018, ISBN 978-3-411-74358-2 .