Jochen A. Bär

Jochen A. Bär (* 1967 in Heidelberg ) is a German specialist in German ( Linguist ). He is Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Vechta and (since 2015) a member of the main board of the Society for German Language . He has been its deputy chairman since 2019.

Live and act

Career

Bär studied German Philology and Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg . In 1993 he passed the master’s examination. From 1993 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Heidelberg German Department (Workplace for the Early New High German Dictionary ). In 1998 he was at Oskar Reichmann with the work language reflection of the early German Romanticism doctorate . He then worked for three years as a research assistant in the office of the Society for the German Language (GfdS) in Wiesbaden, where he was responsible, among other things, for documentation on contemporary German and for telephone and written language advice. In 2000 he took over the management of the GfdS language advisory service. In 2001 he returned to Heidelberg University and became an assistant to Oskar Reichmann. In 2008 he completed his habilitation with a basic thesis on linguistic hermeneutics and received the venia legendi in German linguistics .

After substituting professorships at the University of Gießen , Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University of Education and RWTH Aachen University , he accepted a professorship for German Linguistics at the University of Vechta in 2012 . He was visiting professor at the Universities of Bristol , Aosta and Prague, among others .

Work areas

Bär's main focus is on "cultural linguistics". They include theoretical and empirical semantics, conceptual history (especially the 18th and 19th century), language history of the Germans (from the beginning to the present), German grammar, language reflecting past and present and Applied Linguistics ( literature linguistics , linguistic criticism , directory assistance / advice ).

Bär is the editor of the conceptual historical reference work Central Concepts of the Classical-Romantic “Art Period” (1760–1840) , a member of the Society for the History of German Language , the Research Networks Literary Linguistics , Language and Knowledge and Cultural Linguistics and the Linguistic Language Criticism Working Group . He heads the office for language information and language advice at the University of Vechta, is deputy chairman of the Society for German Language (GfdS) and chairman of the GfdS branch Vechta.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• Language reflection of early German romanticism. Concepts between universal poetry and grammatical cosmopolitanism. With lexicographical appendix. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999 (Studia Linguistica Germanica 50). ISBN 978-3-11-080781-3 .
• A brief history of the German language. Vechta 2013.
• Hermeneutic Linguistics. Theory and practice of grammatical-semantic interpretation. Fundamentals of a system of understanding. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015. ISBN 978-3-11-040519-4 .
• The year of words. 365 lexical highlights. Among employees v. Luisa from the Moore, Kirsten Grote-Bär, Christian Daniel Kreuz, Wilfried Kürschner, Jana-Katharina Mende, David Römer, Pamela Steen, Jana Tereick, Vera Willgosch. Edition Oldenburgische Volkszeitung, Vechta 2015. ISBN 978-3-9816401-2-0 .

Editing

• (together with Petra Kiedaisch): Merriment. Concepts in literature and intellectual history. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-7705-3183-7 .
• From “rebellious” to “expensive”. The "Words of the Years" 1971–2002. Duden, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2003 (Topic German 4), ISBN 978-3-411-90102-9 . Second, completely revised edition together with Jana Tereick: From “scene” to “post-factual”. The “Words of the Year” of the Society for the German Language 1977 to 2016. Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2017 (Subject German 14), ISBN 978-3-487-15625-5 .
• (together with Thorsten Roelcke / Anja Steinhauer ): Linguistic brevity. Conceptual, structural and pragmatic aspects. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007 (Linguistics - Impulses and Tendencies 27), ISBN 978-3-11-020434-6 .
• Central terms of the classic-romantic “art period” (1760–1840). Dictionary for reflection on literature and art from the time of Goethe. http://www.zbk-online.de/ 2010 ff.
• (together with Marcus Müller): History of Language - Language of History. Problems and perspectives of the historical linguistics of German. Oskar Reichmann on his 75th birthday. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2012 (Lingua Historica Germanica 3). ISBN 978-3-05-005111-6 .
• (together with Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann / Jörg Riecke : Handbook Language in History. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2019 (Handbooks Language Knowledge 8), ISBN 978-3-11-029611-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jochen A. Bär in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Jochen A. Bär
• International directory of Germanists
• Office for language information and language advice at the University of Vechta

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Change of leadership at the Society for German Language. Accessed on the GfdS website on May 10, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b} New main board elected. Retrieved on April 4, 2019 from the GfdS website.
3. ↑ http://www.baer-linguistik.de/zur_person.htm (accessed on October 12, 2019).
4. ↑ Heidrun Kämper, Peter Haslinger, Thomas Raithel ( eds. ): History of democracy as history of the caesura. Discourses of the Early Weimar Republic. Berlin 2014 ( Discourse Patterns 5 ), p. 7.
5. ↑ http://www.literaturlinguistik.de/haben.htm (accessed on May 10, 2015).
6. ↑ http://sprache-und-wissen.de/wissensdomaenen/deutsche-sprache ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 10, 2015).
7. ↑ http://www.kulturlinguistik.org/index.php/lösungen (accessed on May 10, 2015)
8. ↑ http://www.ak-sprachkritik.de/lösungen.htm (accessed on May 10, 2015).
9. ↑ http://www.sprachauskunft-vechta.de/team.htm (accessed on May 15, 2015).
10. ↑ http://gfds.de/zweige/zweige-im-in-und-ausland (accessed on May 10, 2015).