Bernd Spillner

Bernd Spillner (born March 20, 1941 in Braunschweig ) is a German professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen for French and Italian in the areas of Romance studies and general linguistics.

Life

Bernd Spillner graduated from high school in Wolfenbüttel in 1961 and studied Romance languages, German and general linguistics at the universities of Tübingen, Montpellier, Bonn and Bochum from 1961 to 1967. In 1961 in Tübingen he became a member of the student association AV Igel . On November 17, 1967, he passed his first state examination in philology in French and German. From 1967 to 1971 he was a research associate in the LIMAS research group in Bonn. During this time he completed an advanced training course in communication research and general linguistics at the University of Bonn . On January 16, 1970, he obtained his doctorate at the University of Bochum , majoring in Romance philology. From 1971 to 1972 he was given a teaching position at the Linguistic Institute of the University of Bonn. In 1972 he was appointed Academic Councilor at the Linguistics Institute of the University of Bonn and thus received a teaching position in general and applied linguistics. There he was also head of the department for applied linguistics and the working group for theoretical and applied linguistics. From 1972 to 1978 he was head of the “Style Research and Rhetoric” section in the Society for Applied Linguistics .

In 1972 he was also appointed Academic Senior Counselor and finally Full Professor of Romance Studies and General Linguistics at the University of Duisburg. 1974 to 1976 Spillner had a teaching position for general linguistics at the University of Bonn. From 1976 to 1978 he taught Romance studies and didactics of the French language at the Pedagogical University of Rhineland. In 1977 he was part of a teaching and research stay for the DAAD University Teacher Exchange at the Université de Paris V - Sorbonne. From 1979 to 1981 he was dean and vice dean at the University of Duisburg.

In 1984 he received a DAAD guest professorship at the University of Alexandria. In the 1990s he took on visiting professorships at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as short-term DAAD lectureships at the Universidad de La Habana, Cuba and at the Pontifia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito. From 1999 to 2000 Spillner was Professor of Associé for Français Langue Etrangère at the Université de Paris VII. In the summer of 2000 he was a visiting professor at the Université de Nouméa. In the 2000s he held several short-term DAAD lectureships in Senegal, Georgia and Kazakhstan. On April 1, 2007, Bernd Spillner retired.

He remained scientifically active and in 2008 was involved in a DAAD research project at the Pedagogical Institute in Aktobe, Kazakhstan. In 2009 he taught at the Universities of Oran, Mascara and Béchar in Algeria. This was followed by a short-term lectureship and a DAAD-PPP project on technical language research at Tongji University Shanghai (China). In 2011 he received a short-term lectureship at the Moscow Language University.

Spillner's areas of work include contrastive linguistics (Romance languages – German) and error analysis, rhetoric / stylistics / text linguistics, French grammar and lexis, translation studies, contact linguistics, specialist language research, as well as semantics and pragmatics. He has already written over 320 articles in 10 languages on these topics.

Memberships

From 1976, Spillner was Chairman of the Scientific Commission on Rhetoric and Stylistics of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA) for 18 years .
In 1978 he was elected to the Société de Linguistique de Paris.
From 1987 to 1994 he was President of the Society for Applied Linguistics.
1990 to 1996 Vice President of the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée.
In 1995 Spillner was elected honorary member of the Society for Applied Linguistics.
From 1995 to 2005 he was President of the Jury of the CICERO Speaker Prize.
From 1996 to 1999 he was a specialist reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) for general and applied linguistics.

Publications (selection)

Symmetrical and asymmetrical principle in Marcel Proust's syntax. A contribution to the history of the French prose style. Anton Hain, Meisenheim 1971.
Linguistics and literary studies. Style research, rhetoric, text linguistics. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1974.
Error Analysis. A Comprehensive Bibliography. Benjamin, Amsterdam / Philadelphia 1991.
The 500 best business letters. Modern Industry, Landsberg 1997.
The perfect salutation. Written and oral, formal and informal, national and international. Modern industry, Landsberg / Lech 2001.
Forms of address in German, Kazakh and Russian. Intercultural contribution to foreign language teaching and business negotiations. State Pedagogical Institute Aktobe, Aktobe 2008.

literature

Hartmut Schröder, Petra Kumschlies, María González: Linguistics as cultural studies. Festschrift for Bernd Spillner on his 60th birthday. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2001, ISBN 978-3631373088 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Spillner, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig