Josef Klein (linguist)

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Josef Klein (born September 5, 1940 in Stolberg (Rhineland) ) is a German university professor and politician ( CDU until 1979 , then non-party).

Life

After graduating from high school, Klein studied German and Latin at the University of Cologne and political science at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen . He received his doctorate in 1972, Dr. phil.

In the 1972 federal election , Klein was elected to the German Bundestag via the CDU's state list in North Rhine-Westphalia , to which he belonged until 1976. He supported the Ostpolitik of the Brandt / Scheel government and was one of four CDU members who voted for the basic treaty between the Federal Republic and the GDR. From 1976 to 1978 he headed the basic program commission of the CDU social committees (CDA). He was a member of the CDU until 1979.

From 1977 to 1992, Klein held a teaching position at the Institute for German Studies in Aachen.

science

Klein received the academic license to teach German linguistics in 1985 and was professor for German linguistics at the German Institute of the University of Koblenz-Landau from 1992 to 2000 . From 2000 to 2005 he was president of the university. Since his retirement, Klein has been working at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

From 1987 to 1993 Klein was press spokesman for the German Society for Linguistics .

Klein specializes in pragmatics , text linguistics and political linguistics . He is considered to be "the most prominent representative of linguistic research on language in politics" in Germany. He worked out taxonomies of the struggles over political terms (main categories: “competition for names” and “competition for meaning”) as well as the types of political text and interaction and presented a system of political language strategies. He demonstrated the fundamental importance of a “complex topical pattern” for legitimizing political action, consisting of “data”, “data assessment”, “principles / norms / values” and “goal setting”, often supplemented by “causes” and references “Consequences” of acting or not acting. Klein refers to indications for a time and cross-cultural validity of this multi-part argument structure. Klein played a decisive role in the fact that the linguistic preoccupation with language in politics is not limited to keyword and metaphor research, but has been developed into political linguistics, which goes beyond lexicons to the roles of sentence, text and speech, verbal forms of interaction (negotiation, debate etc.), discourse, procedures and campaigns in political contexts. Klein emphasizes the interdisciplinary references to rhetoric and political science.

In 1988, Klein undertook the first empirical study (290 subjects) on the controversy about discrimination against women through the “ generic masculine ”. This showed that generic masculine personal designations are much more related to men than to women. The work strengthened efforts to achieve gender-equitable language.

He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Fonts (selection)

  • Politics and rhetoric. An introduction, Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2019, ISBN 978-3-658-25454-4 , ISBN 978-3-658-25455-1 (eBook).
  • From Gandhi and al-Qaida to Schröder and Merkel. Politolinguistic analyzes, expertises and criticism, Frank & Timme, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7329-0123-4 .
  • Basics of political linguistics. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-7329-0110-4 .
  • Linguistic Hermeneutics of Political Speech. A model analysis using the example of Chancellor Schröder's announcement of Agenda 2010. In: Fritz Hermanns / Werner Holly (eds.): Linguistic Hermeneutics. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-484-31272-2 , pp. 201-238.
  • (Ed. With Ulla Fix and Stephan Habscheid) On the cultural specifics of text types. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-86057-682-8 .
  • Complex topical patterns: from individual topos to discourse-type-specific topos configurations. In: Thomas Schirren / Gert Ueding (Ed.): Topic and Rhetoric. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-484-68013-X , pp. 623-649.
  • with Iris Meißner: Business in your head. Conceptual competence and attitudes of young adults to economic topics in a media context. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 1999, ISBN 3-631-35309-X .
  • (Ed. With Ulla Fix) Text relationships. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-86057-705-0 .
  • (Ed. With Hajo Diekmannshenke) Language strategies and dialog blocks. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1996, ISBN 3-11-015077-8 .
  • Can one 'occupy terms'? For the linguistic differentiation of a striking political metaphor. In: Frank Liedtke, Martin Wengeler, Karin Böke, (Ed.): Occupy terms. Strategies of language use in politics. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1991, ISBN 3-531-12221-5 , pp. 44-69.
  • Elephant rounds ´Three days before the election`. The ARD-ZDF joint broadcast 1972–1987. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2168-7 .
  • (Ed.) Political Semantics. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1989, ISBN 3-531-12050-6 .
  • Discrimination against women in the generic masculine - a feminist chimera or psycholinguistic reality? In: Norbert Oellers (ed.): The self-understanding of German studies. Current discussions. German Studies and German Lessons in the Age of Technology Volume 1. Lectures of the Germanist Day Berlin 1987, Niemeyer, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-484-10593-3 , pp. 310-319.
  • The conclusive speech acts. Studies on pragmatics, semantics, syntax and lexicons of REASONS, EXPLAIN-WHY, CONCLUSION and JUSTIFY. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1987, ISBN 3-484-31076-6 (also habilitation thesis).
  • with Karl-Joachim Kierey and Norbert Lammert: Community-oriented organization of urban parties. Knoth, Melle 1983, ISBN 3-88368-076-1 .
  • (Ed. With Gunter Presch) Institutions - Conflicts - Language. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1981, ISBN 3-484-10426-0 .
  • Text-linguistic studies on Gottfried von Strasbourg's ´Tristan`. Dissertation Aachen 1972.
  • Hajo Diekmannshenke, Iris Meißner (Hrsg.): Political communication in historical change. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Josef Klein. Staufenburg, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-86057-720-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Bundestag. Plenary minutes. 7th electoral term, 31st session, Friday, May 11, 1973. p. 1952 Minutes (PDF)
  2. ^ Visiting professorship from Josef Klein at the University of Düsseldorf. http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Institute/Germanistik/AbteilungI/Sonstiges/plakat-klein-dozentur.pdf
  3. ^ Empirical study by Josef Klein on the generic masculine.
  4. ^ European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Archived copy ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Little, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist, university professor and politician (CDU, independent), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolberg (Rhineland)