Gabriele Diewald

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Gabriele Diewald (* 1960 ) is a German linguist and author of several Duden books on gender-equitable language . She is professor for contemporary German at the University of Hanover .

Life

Gabriele Diewald studied German and English from 1981 to 1988 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Canterbury . In 1990 she did her doctorate in Erlangen-Nuremberg with Horst Haider Munske in German linguistics on the subject of modal verbs in German . From 1992 to 2000 Diewald was a senior research assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; In 1998 she completed her habilitation there in German linguistics. From 2000 to 2001 she was Professor of German Linguistics at the Institute for German Studies I at the University of Hamburg . Since 2001 Diewald has held the chair for contemporary German language at the German seminar at the University of Hanover . There she was also Vice President for Teaching, Studies and Further Education from 2007 to 2012.

Her activities abroad include a year as a visiting scholar at the Linguistics Department (Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Traugott) at Stanford University (1996 to 1997) and visiting professorships, including at the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil (1999) and at the university of Georgia in Athens (2014, 2015).

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Diewald has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the journal Contributions to the History of German Language and Literature (PBB) .

Since 2017, Diewald has been leading the study on Gender Equitable Language in Theory and Practice on the current situation from a linguistic, phoniatric , psycholinguistic and legal perspective. At a scientific conference in October 2019, among other things, research results on 80 language guides were published.

From 2018 to the beginning of 2020, Diewald was also involved in leading the study Gender and Scientific Language, which examines the relationship using the example of the linguistic processing of research applications.

Together with the linguist and Germanistin Anja Steinhauer written Diewald 2017 three basic guide for the application of gender-neutral language ( Gendering ) of the sec editorial team led by Kathrin Kunkel Razum issued.

Fonts (selection)

  • 2020: together with Anja Steinhauer : Duden: Handbook gender equitable language - How to gender appropriately and understandably. Published by the Duden editorial team . Dudenverlag, Berlin April 2020, ISBN 978-3-411-74517-3 .
  • 2020: Everything changes, but nothing by itself - a determination of the position on the subject of gender-equitable language. In: The Language Service. No. 1–2, 2020, pp. 1–14.
  • 2020: Paradigms lost - paradigms regained: Paradigms as hyper-constructions. In: Lotte Sommerer, Elena Smirnova (Eds.): Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar (=  CAL - Constructional Approaches to Language. Volume 27). Benjamin, Amsterdam 2020, ISBN 978-90-272-0544-5 , pp. 277-315 (English; doi: 10.1075 / cal.27.08die ).
  • 2019: Linguistic criteria and arguments for gender-equitable use of language. In: Sabine Berghahn , Ulrike Schultz (Hrsg.): Legal handbook for women and equality officers. Loose-leaf collection. Dashöfer, Hamburg 2001-2019, ISBN 978-3-931832-44-5 , basics 1.3.
  • 2019 together with Anja Steinhauer: Duden: Gendern - very easy! Published by the Duden editorial team. Dudenverlag, Berlin March 2019, ISBN 978-3-411-74335-3 ( reading sample on duden.de).
  • 2019 with Mechthild Habermann and Maria Thurmair : Basic knowledge of grammar. 3rd revised edition. Dudenverlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-411-73273-9 .
  • 2018: For discussion: Gender equitable language as a topic of German linguistics - exemplarily exercised on the dispute over the so-called generic masculine. In: Journal for German Linguistics. Volume 46, Issue 2, 2018, pp. 283–299 ( doi: 10.1515 / zgl-2018-0016 ; download page ).
  • 2018: Gender Equitable Language: What is it? What shoud that? How does it work? In: The Language Service . Volume 62, No. 6, 2018, pp. 195-208 ( lecture information ).
  • 2017 together with Anja Steinhauer: Duden: Correct gendern - How to write appropriately and understandably. Published by the Duden editorial team. Dudenverlag, Berlin October 2017, ISBN 978-3-411-74357-5 ( reading excerpt in the Google book search).
  • 2014: On the relationship between grammaticalization research and linguistic history research. In: Yearbook for German Language History. Volume 5. 2014, pp. 79-93.
  • 1999: The modal verbs in German: grammaticalization and polyfunctionality (= German linguistics. Volume 208). Doctoral thesis at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 1998. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-31208-4 (reprint: De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-094594-2 , excerpt from Google book search).
  • 1997: Grammaticalization: An introduction to being and becoming grammatical forms (= Germanistic workbooks. Volume 36). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-484-25136-0 ( reading sample in the Google book search).
  • 1991: Deixis and text types in German (= German Linguistics. Volume 118). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-484-31118-5 (reprint: De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 1991, ISBN 3-11-137640-0 ).

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Article by Gabriele Diewald:

Interviews:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriele Diewald: 1999: The Modal Verbs in German: Grammaticalization and Polyfunctionality (= German Linguistics. Volume 208). Doctoral thesis at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 1998. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-31208-4 (reprint: De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-094594-2 , excerpt from Google book search).
  2. ↑ a b c seminar page: Prof. Dr. phil. Gabriele Diewald. German Seminar at the University of Hanover , October 15, 2019, accessed on April 29, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b Gabriele Diewald: Biographical. In: GabrieleDiewald.de. 2020, accessed April 29, 2020.
  4. ^ Contributions to the history of the German language and literature : Scientific advisory board. In: deGruyter.com . 2020, accessed April 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ Gabriele Diewald: Gender Equitable Language in Theory and Practice. In: GabrieleDiewald.de. 2020, accessed April 29, 2020.
  6. ↑ Christine Olderdissen: "It takes a long time for gender to become part of everyday language." In: genderleicht.de. December 17, 2019, accessed April 29, 2020.
  7. ↑ Gabriele Diewald: Between the role model function and “ideological confusion” - gender-equitable language at universities. In: GabrieleDiewald.de. 2020, accessed on April 29, 2020 (official conference report).
  8. ↑ Christine Ivanov, interviewed by Christine Olderdissen: Language guides under the microscope. In: genderleicht.de. October 28, 2019, accessed April 29, 2020.
  9. ↑ Project page: Gender and scientific language - examined using the example of the linguistic processing of research proposals. In: Leibniz Research Center for Science and Society. 2020, accessed April 29, 2020.
  10. ↑ Henning Lobin : Struggle for politeness. in: SciLogs.de . April 30, 2018, accessed on April 29, 2020 ("Duden-Verlag has appeared with two books on controversial language topics in the last few months").
  11. ↑ Julian von Heyl: Review: Duden - Correct gendern. In : korkturen.de . February 11, 2018, accessed April 29, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Diewald, Gabriele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diewald, Gabriele Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960