Karlheinz Jakob

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Karlheinz Jakob (born September 6, 1953 in Heilbronn ) is a German linguist and professor.

Life

He studied German and history at the University of Freiburg and in 1979 passed the state examination for a higher teaching post in the subjects of German and history. In 1984 received his doctorate Jacob with the dissertation dialect and regional language in Heilbronn at Hugo Steger at the University of Freiburg. In 1990/1991 he completed his habilitation with the work Habilitation Machine, Mental Model, Metaphor. Studies on the semantics and history of technical language . On February 20, 1991 he received the venia legendi for the subject Germanic Philology from the Senate of the University of Freiburg. In March 1991 he was awarded at the annual meeting of the Institute of German language the prize for Germanic Linguistics at the Hugo Moser Foundation . Since 1995 he has held the chair for German linguistics and language history at the TU Dresden . From 2009 to 2012 he was Dean of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies at the TU Dresden.

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Author activity

  • Dialect and regional language in the Heilbronn area. For the classification of dialect features in a dialect-geographic transition landscape. 2 Bde. Marburg 1985. (Studies on Dialectology in Southwest Germany 3.) [Dissertation, Freiburg 1984] [Partial discussion within a conference report in: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 52, 1985, p. 70.]
  • Machine, mental model, metaphor. Studies on the semantics and history of technical language . Tübingen 1991 (German Linguistic Series 123.) [Habilitation thesis, Freiburg 1990] [Reviews: Freiburger Univ.bl. 115/1992; Grazer Ling. Studies 37/1992; Presentation service for literature science 25/1993 H. 1; Media Studies 1-2 / 1993; History of technology 61/1994 No. 4]

Editorial activity

  • Text type, speaker group, communication area. Studies on the German language in the past and present . Festschrift for Hugo Steger on his 65th birthday. Edited by Heinrich Löffler, Karlheinz Jakob, Bernhard Kelle. Berlin, New York.

Contributions

  • Epilogue to the atlas map "Spatial division of dialects around 1950" . From Hugo Steger. With a contribution by K. Jakob. In: Historical Atlas of Baden-Württemberg. Map XII, 7. Stuttgart 1982.
  • Description of the dialect regions. In: Hugo Steger: spatial division of dialects. Preliminary studies on language continuity in the German south-west . Stuttgart 1983, pp. 13-24.
  • A method for the automatic production of trial and work cards . (together with Christoph A. Schöllig). In: Research Report Southwest German Language Atlas . Marburg 1983, pp. 69-110. (Studies on dialectology in southwest Germany 1)
  • A method for the quantitative determination of 'isoglosses' . (together with Bernhard Kelle) In: Dialectology . Ed. by Hans Goebl. Bochum 1984, pp. 136-163. (Quantitative Linguistics 21)
  • For the classification of dialect features . In: Problems of dialect geography . Edited by Eugen Gabriel and Hans Stricker. Bühl / Baden 1987, pp. 81-94.
  • Youth culture and youth language . In: German language 16 . 1988, pp. 320-350.
  • Technical innovation and language change in the 19th century . In: Requirements and basics of contemporary language. Linguistic and social history studies on the 19th century . Edited by Dieter Cherubim and Klaus J. Mattheier. Berlin / New York 1989, pp. 109–121.
  • Naive technology theory and everyday language. In: Forms of the German language. Literary language, everyday language, group language, technical language. Festschrift for Hugo Steger on his 60th birthday . Edited by Jürgen Dittmann, Hannes Kästner, Johannes Schwitalla. Berlin 1991, pp. 125-136.
  • Prestige and stigma of German dialect landscapes. In: Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics 59 (1992) pp. 167-182.

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personal data
SURNAME Jakob, Karlheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn