Beat Siebenhaar

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Beat Siebenhaar (born July 29, 1962 in Zurich ) is a Swiss linguist and dialectologist .

Life

Until 1983 he attended the Immensee high school in the canton of Schwyz. He then studied German literature, philosophy and literary criticism at the University of Zurich until 1991 and received his doctorate in German linguistics in 1999 with a dissertation on language variation, language change and attitude. The dialect of the city of Aarau in the instability zone between Zurich and Bernese dialect . Since 2008 he has held the W2 professorship for German linguistics at the University of Leipzig , previously he worked at the University of Zurich, the University of Bern and the University of Lausanne , among others .

Siebenhaar has also been Dean of Studies for the Philological Faculty at Leipzig University since October 2016. His main research interests are variety linguistics, language in the new media, prosody and dialectology.

Publications (selection)

  • Regional variants of Swiss High German. On the pronunciation of Swiss High German in Bern, Zurich and St. Gallen. In: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 61 1994 pp. 31–65.
  • City Bern German. Speech portraits from the city of Bern (=  Swiss dialects in text and sound. Volume 5.1). Licorne, Murten 2000, pp. 7-32.
  • Language change in language communities and individuals. In: Annelies Häcki Buhofer (Hrsg.): Spracherwerb und Lebensalter (=  Basler Studies on German Language and Literature. Volume ###). Francke, Tübingen / Basel 2002, pp. 313-325.
  • (with Adrian Leemann :) Perception of Dialectal Prosody . In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008. Pp. 524-527.
  • The Saxon dialect. In: Matthias Donath, André Thieme: Saxon Myths. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2011, pp. 91–99.
  • East Central German: Thuringian and Upper Saxon. In: Joachim Herrgen, Jürgen Erich Schmidt (Hrsg.): German: Language and Space. An international handbook of language variation (=  handbooks for linguistics and communication studies. Volume 30/4). de Gruyter, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-026129-5 , pp. 407-435.
  • Informality marking in WhatsApp communication . In: Androutsopoulos, Jannis and Florian Busch (eds.): Register of the graphic: Variation, interaction and reflection in digital writing (=  linguistics - impulses and tendencies. Volume 87). De Gruyter, Berlin 2020, pp. 67–92.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Siebenhaar, Beat. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. degruyter.com, accessed on August 14, 2020 (founded by Joseph Kürschner , constantly updated, restricted-access online edition).