Eva-Maria Jakobs

Eva-Maria Jakobs (* 1955 ) is a German linguist and professor for linguistics and communication studies at the Institute for Linguistics and Communication Studies (ISK) at RWTH Aachen University and has headed the teaching and research area of text linguistics there since 1999 . She is the coordinator of the interdisciplinary course in technology communication , the first course of its kind at a German university.

Jakobs studied German , educational science and art history at the University of Greifswald . Her doctorate in German linguistics in 1982 was followed by assistants and research stays a. a. at the universities in Saarbrücken, Freiburg im Breisgau, Bielefeld and Groningen in the Netherlands and the Institut des textes et manuscrits modern in Paris. In 1996 Jakobs submitted her habilitation with the title On dealing with the texts of others - relationships between texts in the field of tension between production, reproduction and reception processes at the Philosophical Faculty of Saarland University . In 1999 she received a call from the then German Institute of RWTH Aachen University for the field of text linguistics.

The main focus of Jakobs' work lies in the areas of text linguistics, technical communication, age and technology, text production , text comprehensibility and usability , electronic media and the promotion of young talent in engineering.

Jakobs is the lead liaison professor for the German National Academic Foundation at RWTH Aachen University. In 1993, together with Dagmar Knorr and Sylvie Molitor-Lübbert, she founded the Prowitec working group (production of scientific texts with and without a computer), which offers the book series "Textproduktion und Medium" and "Writing - Media - Profession". In 2006 Jakobs was Vice President of the Society for Applied Linguistics (GAL) and has been a member of the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (Acatech) since 2006 . She is also a member of the German Society for Linguistics and the Society for Technical Communication .

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva-Maria Jakobs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Vita on the pages of the teaching and research area Text Linguistics and Technical Communication at RWTH Aachen University
• Technology Communication - Homepage of the course at RWTH Aachen
• Eva-Maria Jakobs in the database of renowned scientists AcademiaNet

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joachim Milberg (2002): Success in Networks, p. 314
2. ↑ RWTH Aachen: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes eV funding program