Joachim Scharloth

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Joachim Scharloth (2016)

Joachim Scharloth (* 1972 ) is a German linguist and university professor . Since 2012 he has held the professorship for applied linguistics at the Technical University of Dresden .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1991 at the Franziskanergymnasium Kreuzburg in Großkrotzenburg and doing community service at the St. Vincenz Hospital in Hanau , Scharloth studied German , political science and philosophy until 1995 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and then graduated in 1998 as a Magister Artium at the Ruprecht- Charles University of Heidelberg . With a doctoral scholarship from the DFG Graduate School , he then wrote his dissertation at the universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim. In 2002 he started with a thesis on “Language norms and mentalities. History of Language Awareness in Germany from 1766 to 1785 ”.

From 2002 to 2009 Scharloth worked as a research assistant at Angelika Linke's chair at the German Department of the University of Zurich . At the same time, he researched and taught at times at Linköping University in Sweden and Waseda University in Tokyo . In May 2008 he completed his habilitation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich, together with Noah Bubenhofer he founded the semtracks - Laboratory for Computer Based Meaning Research at the University of Freiburg i. Br. After a substitute professorship at the University of Freiburg and a visiting professorship at the University of Zurich, he followed a professorship at the Dokkyō University in Tokyo in 2010 , until he was appointed to a professorship at the Technical University of Dresden in 2012 . In 2013 and 2014 he conducted several research as a visiting scholar at Waseda University Tokyo (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science), and in 2014 he was visiting professor at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages .

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