Kirsten Adamzik

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Kirsten Adamzik (born February 6, 1955 in Kiel ) is a German-Swiss German linguist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva ( Université de Genève in French ). She is an exposed representative of text linguistics . Her other research focuses include contrastive textology, textbook research , specialist language research and German as a foreign language . Since her marriage she has been called Kirsten Adamzik ​​Bévand , under which she does not publish. She lives in Carouge, Switzerland .

Life

Adamzik ​​spent her school days in Dortmund , where she attended the Helene-Lange-Gymnasium (modern language branch) and passed the matriculation examination in 1973 . From 1973 to 1979 she studied German , general linguistics , education , philosophy and Spanish at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , where she passed the first state examination in philosophy and pedagogy in 1976 and the first state examination in general linguistics in 1978 and German studies. At the same university from 1979 she was a research assistant at the Institute for General Linguistics. In 1982 she received her doctorate in German studies, general linguistics and education sciences in Münster, before becoming maître-assistante at the Faculté des Lettres (Département de langue et de littérature allemandes) of the University of Geneva in 1983 . In 1988/89 she was employed as Professeure ordinaire suppléante at the Faculté des Lettres (Section d'allemand) of the University of Lausanne , from 1989 as Maître d'enseignement et de recherche again at the Département de langue et littérature allemandes of the University of Geneva, where she worked in 2004 as professor ordinaire succeeded Gottfried Kolde on the chair for German linguistics. She retired in 2018.

Academic memberships

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Linguistic varieties. Tübingen 1981 (under the name Kirsten Nabrings).
  • Linguistic action and social contact. To integrate the category “relationship aspect” into a speech-act-theoretical description of German. Dissertation, Münster 1982; Tubingen 1984.
  • Problems of negation in German. Studies in contemporary grammarography. Münster 1987.
  • Text types - text typology. An annotated bibliography. Munster 1995.
  • Contrasting textology. Empirical studies on German and French language and literature studies. With contributions by Roger Gaberell and Gottfried Kolde. Tübingen 2001.
  • Text linguistics. An introductory presentation. Tuebingen 2004; Revised 2015.
  • Language - ways to understand. 2001; 2004; 3rd edition, Tübingen 2010.
  • Text linguistics. Basics, controversies, perspectives. 2nd edition, Berlin / Boston 2016.
  • Technical languages. The construction of worlds. Tübingen 2018.

Editing

  • with Jürg Niederhauser: scientific language and colloquial language in contact. Frankfurt a. M. 1999.
  • with Gerd Antos and Wolfgang Heinemann: series of text types . Tübingen 2000ff.
  • Text types. Reflections and analyzes. Tübingen 2000.
  • with Helen Christen: language contact, language comparison, language variation. Festschrift for Gottfried Kolde's 65th birthday. Tübingen 2001.
  • with Ulla Fix, Gerd Antos and Michael Klemm: Do we need a new text term? Answers to a prize question from the Society for Applied Linguistics. Frankfurt a. M. 2002.
  • Texts, discourses, interaction roles. Analysis of communication in public space. Tübingen 2002.
  • with Eva Roos: Biography linguistiche - Biographies langagières - Biografias linguisticas - Language biographies (= Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée, No. 76). Institut de linguistique de l'Université de Neuchâtel 2002.
  • with Eva Neuland: Textsorten (= special issue of the magazine Der Deutschunterricht 1/2005).
  • with Martine Dalmas, Jan Engberg, Wolf-Dieter Krause, Arne Ziegler: Series of European Studies on Text Linguistics . Tübingen 2005ff.
  • with Wolf-Dieter Krause: text work. Text types in foreign and native language lessons at schools and universities (= European Studies in Text Linguistics, Volume 1). 2005; 2nd edition, Tübingen 2009.
  • with Mateusz Maselko: VARIATIONslinguistics meets TEXTlinguistics (= European Studies on Text Linguistics, Volume 19). Tübingen 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Adamzik, Kirsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adamzik ​​Bévand, Kirsten; Nabrings, Kirsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss linguist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel