Dieter Cherubim

Dieter Cherubim (born January 22, 1941 in Dresden ) is a German specialist in German and retired professor .

Life

Dieter Cherubim studied classical philology and German literature in Munich and Marburg from 1962 to 1968 . In 1971 he received his doctorate . His dissertation is entitled Grammatical Categories. The relationship between traditional and modern linguistics. In 1980, he completed his habilitation in German linguistics on the subject of investigations into the problem of language change. Historical conditions - theoretical foundations - empirical description. From 2000 to 2001 Cherubim was dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen .

Research and Teaching

His main research interests include:

• Theory of language change
• Linguistic history of modern times (18th century ff.)
• Error linguistics / language criticism
• Grammarography (ancient / early modern times)
• Conversation research
• Historical pragmatics
• Language, emotion and aggression

Dieter Cherubim also taught a lot abroad, u. a. in Finland, Estonia, France, Ukraine, PR China and Hungary.

Publications (selection)

• Language Change, Individual and Society. Theses. In: Historicity in Linguistics and Literature Studies. Lectures and reports from the Stuttgart Germanist Conference 1972. Ed. Walter Müller-Seidel , in connection with Hans Fromm and Karl Richter . Fink, Munich, pp. 365-373
• Language change. Reader for diachronic linguistics . de Gruyter, Berlin
• Language theoretical positions and the problem of language change . In: Language change and language historiography. 1976 yearbook of the Institute for the German Language. Language of the Present, 41. Schwann, Düsseldorf, pp. 61–82
• On the problem of the causes of language change . In: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik, 46, pp. 320–337
• Deviation and language change . In: Error Linguistics. Contributions to the problem of linguistic deviation. German Linguistics Series, 24. Niemeyer, Tübingen, pp. 124–152.
• Trample to change language? (On Rudi Keller's contribution in ZGL 10. 1982, 1-27) . In: "Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik", 11, pp. 65–71
• Subjective experience and objective reconstruction of language change . In: Copenhagen Contributions to German Linguistics, 21, pp. 27–59
• Linguistic patination. What makes a text look "old"? in Gabriele Leupold , Eveline Passet eds .:  In the mine of language. A history of German in episodes. Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2012, pp. 321–344
  • Review: No two eyes are the same , by Vera Viehöver, in ReLÜ , Reviews online, No. 14, March 17, 2013

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Cherubim in the catalog of the German National Library
• uni-goettingen.de , accessed on March 28, 2013