Christian Stetter
Christian J. Stetter (born June 19, 1943 in Naumburg ; † December 7, 2017 in Aachen ) was a German linguist .
Life
Christian Stetter studied German , history and philosophy at the Universities of Marburg and Lyon from 1965 to 1970.
From 1971 Stetter was a research assistant at the University of Düsseldorf , where he received his doctorate in 1973 with a thesis on the late philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein .
From 1974 to 2009 he was a full professor of German linguistics at RWTH Aachen University , where he mainly dealt with the subject of action theory. In 1990/1991 and 1995/1996 he held a visiting professorship at Keiō University in Tokyo .
In 1979 and 1980, Stetter was chairman of the German Society for Semiotics . From 1987 to 1998 he was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at RWTH Aachen University and from 1998 to 2006 Dean.
Stetter was managing director of semantics Kommunikationmanagement GmbH in Aachen and scientific director of the grammatical telephone of the Research Center for Communication and Writing Culture eV (FoKS) at the German Institute of RWTH Aachen.
Christian Stetter died on December 7, 2017 and found his final resting place in the Aachen forest cemetery .
Research and Teaching
Research priorities
- General theory of language and philosophy of language
- semiotics
- Writing theory
- Speech act theory
- Symbol theory
Focus of teaching
- Philosophy of language: Herder , Humboldt , Wittgenstein , Austin
- Symbol theory: Goodman
- general theory of language: phonology , syntax , semantics
- Formal logic
- Metaphor theory
- rhetoric
- Writing theory
Works (selection)
- Language criticism and transformation grammar. On the importance of Wittgenstein's philosophy for linguistic theory formation . At the same time: Düsseldorf, Univ., Philos. Fac., Dissertation. Düsseldorf: Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann, 1974. - 168 p .; ISBN 3-590-15707-0
- (Ed.): On a theory of orthography. Interdisciplinary aspects of contemporary writing and orthography research . Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1990. - IX, 220 p., ISBN 3-484-31099-5 (German Linguistic Series; 99)
- Writing and language . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1997. - 671 pages, ISBN 3-518-58253-4
- System and performance. Symbol theory basics of media theory and linguistics . Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2005. - 337 pages, ISBN 3-938808-00-4
Web links
- Christian Stetter on the RWTH Aachen website
- Literature by and about Christian Stetter in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Christian J. Stetter: Obituaries and obituaries. In: Aachener Zeitung / Aachener Nachrichten. December 16, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stetter, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stetter, Christian J. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naumburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th December 2017 |
| Place of death | Aachen |