Helga Kotthoff

Helga Kotthoff (* 1953 ) is a German Germanic linguist , a professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg holds. Her work focuses on conversation research, interactional sociolinguistics , anthropological linguistics, German as a foreign language and linguistic humor and gender research .

Professional background

Kotthoff received his doctorate in 1988 from the University of Konstanz with a study on German-American intercultural conversational style differences in argumentative conversations between students and teachers. This work was published in the book “Pros and Cons in Foreign Language”.

In 1996, Kotthoff obtained his habilitation at the University of Vienna with the thesis "Fun Understanding: On the Pragmatics of Conversational Humor".

From 1988 to 1991, Kotthoff was a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service in Tbilisi , Georgia . Numerous research stays and anthropological-linguistic studies on genderized everyday rituals and oral poetry followed. One focus was on the lamentations that women practice on the deceased as part of mourning rituals. This consideration was part of the Collaborative Research Center 511 “Literature and Anthropology” of the German Research Association at the University of Konstanz.

Kotthoff accepted professorships at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences and the Freiburg University of Education and was visiting lecturer at the universities of Vienna , Tbilisi and Konstanz.

Research projects

From 1993 to 1998, Kotthoff worked at the University of Konstanz as part of the “Communication- Scientific Gender Research Project of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science ” on the subject of “Communicative conflict potentials between women and men”. From 2003 to 2009, together with Joachim Appel and Rüdiger Voigt , she carried out empirical studies on the structure and quality of explanations in German, English and mathematics under the title “Being able to explain”. Since 2016 she has been researching the interactional sociolinguistics of school consultation hours. The project was scheduled until 2019.

Publications

Gender linguistics

• Susanne Günthner, Helga Kotthoff: Voices of Strangers. Female and male speaking in a cultural comparison. Suhrkamp , Frankfurt 1991, ISBN 978-3-518-11721-7
• Susanne Günthner, Helga Kotthoff: The sexes in conversation. Communication in institutions. Metzler , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 978-3-476-00825-1
• Helga Kotthoff, Ruth Wodak: Communicating Gender in Context , Benjamin, Amsterdam 1997, ISBN 978-1-5561-9804-5
• Bettina Baron, Helga Kotthoff: Gender in Interaction , Benjamin, Amsterdam 2002, ISBN 978-9-0272-5112-1
• Helga Kotthoff, Damaris Nübling, Claudia Schmidt: Gender linguistics. Introduction to language, conversation and gender, Narr Francke Attempto , Tübingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8233-6913-4

Linguistic humor research

• Helga Kotthoff: The laughter of the sexes. Humor and power in conversations between women and men , Fischer, Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 978-3-8794-0537-4
• Helga Kotthoff: Fun to understand. On the pragmatics of conversational humor . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 978-3-4843-1196-1
• Helga Kotthoff: Irony, Quotation, and other Forms of Staged Intertextuality. Double or Contrastive Perspectivation in Conversation . In: Carl F. Graumann, Werner Kallmeyer (Ed.): Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse. Benjamin, Amsterdam 2002, ISBN 978-1-5881-1295-8 , pp. 201-233
• Helga Kotthoff: Edition of a special issue on gender and humor . In: Journal of Pragmatics . tape 38 , no. 1 , 2006, ISSN  0378-2166 .
• Journal of Pragmatics 38.1. Edition of a special issue on gender and humor.
• Helga Kotthoff, Shpresa Jashari, Darja Klingenberg: Komik (in) the migration society . Universitätsverlag, Konstanz 2013, ISBN 978-3-86764-369-6
• Helga Kotthoff: Mario Barth's comedy of gender stereotypes: sketch comedy and gender ideology , In: Ingo Warnke, Ulrike Meinhof, Martin Reisigl (eds.): Discourse linguistics in the field of tension between description and criticism. , De Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-005843-6 , pp. 221–247
• Helga Kotthoff: Linguistics and Humor , In: Uwe Wirth (Hrsg.): Komik. An interdisciplinary handbook , Metzler, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-476-02349-0 , pp. 112-122

Web links

• Publications by Helga Kotthoff on the portal of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
• Literature by and about Helga Kotthoff in the catalog of the German National Library
• About funny women and funny guys , article in Emma magazine, January 1, 2005
• The new Imponier-German are Anglicisms , contribution in the period from November 9, 2011
• Gender-equitable writing , broadcast on Deutschlandfunk from June 8, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ Directory of Germanists: Helga Kotthoff. Retrieved November 9, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Prof.in Dr Helga Kotthoff. Retrieved November 9, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Prof. in Dr. Helga Kotthoff - German Linguistics. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .