Gerda Hassler

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Gerda Haßler (born July 4, 1953 in Werdau ) is a German linguist and Romance scholar . She has been Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Potsdam since 1993 .

Life and career

Gerda Haßler studied Romance and Slavic languages ​​from 1971 to 1974 at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 1978 she received her doctorate with a thesis on the description of the influence of language on thinking in language theories of the 18th century . In 1984 she completed her habilitation on the development of the semantic concept of value in language theories from the 18th to the 20th century. In 1985 she was appointed university lecturer at the Institute for Romance Studies in Halle . After she was appointed to the chair for Romance studies at the Technical University of Dresden in 1992 , she was appointed to the C4 professorship for linguistics and applied linguistics (Romance studies) at the University of Potsdam in 1993, where she has been working since the 1993 summer semester. From 2001 to 2006 she was Vice Rector for Teaching and Studies at the University of Potsdam. Since 2006 she has been co-editor of the journal Contributions to the History of Linguistics and since 2007 Vice President and Advisory Board member of the Sociedad Española de Historiografía lingüística .

Research priorities

At the Chair of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Potsdam, research is carried out on the linguistic constitution of Romance cultures in the following research fields:

  • History of linguistics and its relevance for contemporary theories of language
  • Predication in Romance languages ​​and the speaker in the utterance
  • Structure and function to fixate groups of words

Memberships

Gerda Haßler has been a member of several scientific societies and advisory boards since 1990:

  • Member of the board of the German Romanists Association
  • Deputy member of the Franco-German University College
  • Board of Trustees of the Franco-German Youth Office
  • Advisory board (Conseil d'administration) of SIHFLES (Société Internationale pour une Histoire du Français Langue Etrangère ou Seconde)
  • SHESL (Société d'Histoire et d'Épistémologie du Langage)
  • Advisory Board of the European Enlightenment Research Center (Potsdam)
  • Advisory board of the Historiographia Linguistica
  • Advisory board of the magazine Romance Studies in Past and Present (Ed. HJNiederehe, J. Kramer)
  • Co-editor of the Linguistics Studies series (with Helmut Gipper and Peter Schmitter)
  • 2002–2008 Deputy Chairwoman of the Franco-Romanists Association
  • Vice-President of the Sociedad Española de Historiografía lingüística (since 2007)
  • President of the 11th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI)
  • Elected member of the learned society Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin since 2018 .

Publications (selection)

  • Describing the influence of language on thinking in language theories of the 18th [eighteenth] century (with special reference to the French Enlightenment) , 1978
  • Enlightenment language theories on the role of language in the cognitive process , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984
  • On the development of the semantic concept of value in language theories from the 18th to the 20th century , 1984
  • The semantic concept of value in language theories from the 18th to the 20th century , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1991
  • Lexicon of basic concepts of language theory of the 17th and 18th centuries , 2 volumes, Berlin: de Gruyter 2009
  • Gerda Haßler, Cordula Neis (éds) Oralité (s) et écriture (s). Actes du colloque du collège doctoral "Syntagmes et locutions in the phrase et in the discours" - Potsdam, 23 to 25 September 2010. Münster: Nodus publications, 2012, 298 pages. (Study of Linguistics. Supplements. 41.), ISBN 978-3-89323-141-6 .
  • Gerda Haßler (Hrsg.): Metalinguistic reflection and discontinuity. Turning points - times of crisis - upheavals . Münster: Nodus Publications 2015. ISBN 978-3-89323-017-4 .
  • La historiografía de la lingüística y la memoria de la lingüística moderna , ed. Por. María Luisa Calero Vaquera, Gerda Haßler. Münster: Nodus Publications 2016. (Study of Linguistics. Supplements. 43) ISBN 978-3-89323-143-0
  • Temporality, Aspectuality and Modality in Romance Languages. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2016, 421 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-031029-0

Co-author (selection)

  • Speech theories of the Enlightenment - On the role of language in the cognitive process Akademie Verlag (1984)
  • The Semantic Concept of Value in Language Theories from the 18th to the 20th Century , Akademie Verlag GmbH (1991)
  • Regards sur l'histoire de l'enseignement des langues étrangères: Actes de la Section 8 du Romanistentag de Potsdam. (1995)
  • Texts in the text: studies on intertextuality and its linguistic forms , Nodus (1997)
  • Continuity and innovation: studies on the history of Romance language research from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Nodus (1997)
  • Werner Krauss: Ways - Works - Effects , Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag (1999)
  • Forms of enlightenment and their reception. Festschrift for Ulrich Ricken by Reinhard Bach, Stauffenburg Verlag (1999)
  • Language discussion and description of languages ​​in the 17th and 18th centuries , Nodus (1999)
  • Johann August Eberhard (1739-1809) - a contentious spirit at the limits of the Enlightenment , Hallescher Verlag (2000)
  • History of Language Awareness in Romance Countries , Nodus (2000)
  • Language contact and language comparison , Nodus (2001)
  • expressis verbis - philosophical considerations. Festschrift for Günter Schenk on his sixty-fifth birthday , Hallescher Verlag (2003)
  • History of Linguistics in Texts and Concepts / History of Linguistics in Texts and Concepts , Nodus (2004)
  • National and Transnational Perspectives in the History of Linguistics: Contributions to the XI. International , Nodus (2011)
  • The linguist Ulrich Ricken , 2012
  • Variatio verborum: structures, innovations and developments in the vocabulary of Romance languages: Festschrift. ibidem (2013)

Awards

  • 2008 Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes Académiques

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gerda Haßler's main research areas ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-potsdam.de
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personal data
SURNAME Hassler, Gerda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hassler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and Romance philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Werdau