Heike Wiese

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Heike Wiese (2014)

Heike Wiese (born May 25, 1966 in Einbeck ) is a German specialist in German .

Life

Wiese studied German language and literature and philosophy at the Georg-August University in Göttingen between 1985 and 1992 . She completed her studies with the first state examination. This was followed by a doctoral degree at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which she completed in 1997 with a thesis on the connection between numbers and numeralia . During her doctorate, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for German Language and Linguistics at Humboldt University, where she returned after working as a visiting scholar at Brandeis University (1998 to 1999). There she received the award for good teaching from the Philosophical Faculty II in 2002 and completed her habilitation in December 2003 with the thesis Linguistic Arbitrarity as an Interface Phenomenon . She stayed at the Berlin Institute until 2005 and in the same year received the Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form . She then worked as a visiting professor at Yale University . Since 2006 she has held the professorship for Contemporary German Language at the University of Potsdam .

Heike Wiese became known to a wider audience in her role as spokesperson for the Center for Language, Variation and Migration. There she is particularly concerned with the variety of Kiezdeutsche , which she describes as a productive dialect or multi-ethnic . She and her team have created an online portal on the subject.

She is a member of the Migration Council .

Works (selection)

  • Kiezdeutsch. A new dialect is emerging. CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63034-7 .
  • Arbitrarity as an interface phenomenon. Berlin 2003, OCLC 917212802 (Humboldt University Berlin 2003, 236 pages).
  • Number and numerals. An investigation into the correlation of conceptual and linguistic structures (= Studia Gramatica , Volume 44). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-05-003175-1 (dissertation Humboldt University Berlin 1997, 389 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b curriculum vitae on the website of the University of Potsdam; accessed on February 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ Plea from a professor: Kiezdeutsch rocks, swear! Unispiegel , March 29, 2012; accessed on February 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Creativity and innovation: the multiethnic youth language Kiezdeutsch . ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Goethe-Institut ; accessed on February 1, 2014.
  4. ↑ An information portal on youth language in urban residential areas with a high proportion of migrants .
  5. ↑ rat-fuer-migration.de
personal data
SURNAME Wiese, Heike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Einbeck