Götz Beck

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Götz Beck (born January 13, 1934 in Bitterfeld , † October 13, 2009 in Aachen ) was a German literary and linguist .

He studied at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and received his doctorate there in 1963 ; his dissertation is entitled The position of the 24th book of the Iliad in the old epic tradition .

Beck then turned to linguistics. In 1980 he completed his habilitation at the University of Zurich with the text Speech Acts and Language Functions: Investigations into the structure of language and its limits . From 1982 onwards Beck was professor for “German Language and Literature and its Didactics” at RWTH Aachen University . He concentrated on teaching and teaching didactics. In 1998, Der Spiegel mentioned him as a “didactics professor” who turned against the “hypocrisy” of his Aachen colleagues in the case of the Germanist Hans Schwerte , who had tried to wash himself away from Nazi pollution by assuming a false identity . In 1999 Beck retired.

Works (selection)

  • Text types and sociolects. Function and reciprocity in spoken and written language. In: Horst Sitta (Hrsg.): Studies on text theory and German grammar. Ceremony for Hans Glinz on his 60th birthday. (= Language of the Present. Writings of the Institute for German Language, Vol. 30). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1973, ISBN 3-7895-0250-2 , pp. 73–112, urn : nbn: de: bsz: mh39-22434 (freely accessible digital copy as PDF).
  • Speech acts and language functions. Investigations into the action structure of language and its limits. (= German linguistics series, Vol. 27). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1980, ISBN 3-484-10383-3 ( preview on Google Books).
  • Plucked, violated and teased about language and its uses. In: Nicole Hinrichs, Anika Limburg (ed.): Dashes. Reflections on language as a resource. For Wolfgang Boettcher on his 65th birthday. Stauffenberg, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86057-666-3 , pp. 310–322.

literature

  • Kürschers Deutscher Schehrtenkalender , Volume 1 (2005), p. 171.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The support team has a corresponding document under ticket: 2012041710011819 .
  2. ^ Rector and Senate of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule: Obituary. Dr. phil. Götz Beck. In: Aachener Zeitung , October 26, 2009.
  3. ↑ Sting in the wasp's nest. In: Der Spiegel , September 14, 1998.
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Götz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitterfeld
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2009
Place of death Aachen