Jürgen Trabant

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Jürgen Trabant (2020)

Jürgen Trabant (born October 25, 1942 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German linguist .

Life

After studying Romance languages , German and philosophy in Frankfurt, Tübingen and Paris, Trabant received his doctorate in 1969 at the University of Tübingen and from 1980 was Professor of Linguistics (C4) at the Institute for Romance Philology at the Free University of Berlin . He was head of the French course there until 2008.

Since 1987 he has been a member of the Research Center for Historical Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin.

Trabant was visiting professor at Stanford University , the University of California, Davis , and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, Leipzig and Limoges. He was also a fellow at the Collegium Budapest and a member of the Historical College in Munich and has been Rector of the Studienkolleg zu Berlin since 2003 .

Trabant has been a founding member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) since 1992 . From 2008 to 2013 he held the “ Conrad Naber Chair for European Plurilingualism” at Jacobs University Bremen for five years. In 2017 he was elected a member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino.

Awards

On June 14, 2011 Trabant received the title of Commendatore of the Italian Order of Merit ( Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana ).

Act

Trabant mainly teaches and researches French and Italian linguistics, language politics , semiotics , language philosophy , the history of European linguistic thinking and the historical anthropology of language. There is particular interest in the ideas and teachings of Giambattista Vico and Wilhelm von Humboldt .

Together with Achim Eschbach (* 1948) and Ernest WB Hess-Lüttich (* 1949), he publishes the international semiotic journal Kodikas / Code , which is published by Gunter Narr .

Publications

  • On the semiology of the literary work of art. 1970. (Spanish translation)
  • Elements of semiotics. 1976. 3rd edition. 1996. (Jap., Port., Ital., Korean. Translations)
  • Do the interjections belong to the language? In: Harald Weydt (Ed.): Particles and Interaction . Niemeyer, Tübingen 1983, pp. 69-81.
  • Apeliotes or The Sense of Language. Wilhelm von Humboldt's linguistic picture. Fink, Munich 1986. (French, Japanese translations)
  • Traditions of Humboldt. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1990 (Korean., French. Translations)
  • New science of ancient signs: Vico's Sematology. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1994. (Ital., Engl. (Routledge, London. 2004) translations)
  • Articulations. Historical anthropology of language. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / M. 1998.
  • New Essays on the Origin of Language. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2001. (Ed. With Sean Ward)
  • The Gallic Hercules: About Language and Politics in France and Germany . Francke, Tübingen / Basel 2002, ISBN 3-7720-3335-0 .
  • Mithridates in Paradise. Little history of language thinking. Beck, Munich 2003.
  • European language thinking: from Plato to Wittgenstein. Beck, Munich. 2006.
  • What is language Beck, Munich 2008.
  • The language. Beck, Munich 2009.
  • Views of the world: Wilhelm von Humboldt's language project. Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-64021-6 .
  • Global or what? A plea for Europe . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-65990-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Soci: Jürgen Trabant. Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, accessed January 6, 2020 (Italian).
  2. ^ Jacobs University Bremen
  3. ↑ To be or to be, that is the question in FAZ of April 30, 2014, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Trabant, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main