Klaus-Dieter Baumann

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Klaus-Dieter Baumann (born October 22, 1955 in Radebeul ) is a German linguist . As a university professor at the University of Leipzig , Philological Faculty, Institute for Applied Linguistics and Translatology (IALT), he teaches the fields of applied linguistics / specialist communication and East Slavic translation studies for the languages ​​and cultures of English , Russian and German .

Life

After studying English / Russian in Leipzig, Section Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from 1974 to 1978, he received his doctorate in 1981 with a dissertation on the subject of linguistic-stylistic investigations into English specialist texts in historiography . In 1986 he completed his habilitation with Lothar Hoffmann with the work An integrative approach to the analysis of specialist communication with special consideration of the communicating subject in selected specialist text types of the social sciences in English and Russian (published as Integrative Fachtextlinguistik , Tübingen 1992).

After visiting the Lomonossow University in Moscow, the Institute for Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Maurice Thorez Institute in Moscow, he was appointed to the Leipzig University in 1990, and in 1992 as Professor of New Law.

Baumann is a former student of Lothar Hoffmann (* 1928), the Leipzig nestor of specialist language research, and is recognized nationally and internationally in specialist communication research due to his research spectrum. He continues the Leipzig Technical Language School with publications and the promotion of young academics.

Baumann's research focuses on specialist communication research (including medicine , law , psychology , sociology ) as well as emotion research, translation studies , cognitive research and cultural studies .

Publications (selection)

  • (1992): Integrative specialist text linguistics . Tübingen: Fool. (= Forum for technical language research. 18).
  • (1992): Integrative specialist text type stylistics (represented by historiographical specialist texts in English) . Egelsbach - Cologne - New York: Hansel-Hohenhausen. (= German university publications. 480).
  • (1992): Socio-semantic peculiarities of historiographical specialist texts in English. Egelsbach - Cologne - New York: Hansel-Hohenhausen. (= German university publications. 518).
  • (1994): Technical nature of texts . Egelsbach - Frankfurt / M. - Washington: Hansel-Hohenhausen. (= German university publications. 1023).
  • (2001): Knowledge systems in technical texts . Egelsbach - Frankfurt / M. - Munich - New York: Hansel-Hohenhausen. (= German university publications. 1193).

Editorships

  • Klaus-Dieter Baumann / Hartwig Kalverkämper (eds.) (1992): Contrastive specialist language research . Tübingen: Fool. (= Forum for technical language research. 20).
  • Hartwig Kalverkämper / Klaus-Dieter Baumann (eds.) (1996): Technical text types. Components - Relations - Strategies . Tübingen: Fool. (= Forum for technical language research. 25).
  • Klaus-Dieter Baumann / Hartwig Kalverkämper / Kerstin Steinberg-Rahal (eds.) (2000): Languages ​​at work. Stand - Problems - Perspectives . Tübingen: Fool. (= Forum for technical language research. 38).
  • Klaus-Dieter Baumann / Hartwig Kalverkämper (eds.) (2004): Plurality in specialist language research . Tübingen: Fool. (= Forum for technical language research. 67).
  • Klaus-Dieter Baumann (Ed.) (2009): Translatology from an interdisciplinary perspective . Hamburg: Dr. Kovač. (= Applied linguistics from an interdisciplinary perspective. 30).
  • Klaus-Dieter Baumann (Ed.) (2011): Fach - Translat - Kultur. Interdisciplinary aspects of networked diversity . Berlin: Frank & Timme. Scientific literature publisher. (= Forum for Technical Language Research. 98/99), 2 volumes.
  • Larissa Alexandrovna Manerko / Klaus-Dieter Baumann / Hartwig Kalverkämper [Eds.] (2014): Terminology Science in Russia today. From the past to the future. Berlin: Frank & Timme. Scientific literature publisher. (= Forum for technical language research. 116).
  • Klaus-Dieter Baumann / Jan-Eric Dörr / Katja Klammer [eds.] (2014): Fachstile - Systematic localization of an interdisciplinary category. Berlin: Frank & Timme. Scientific literature publisher. (= Forum for technical language research. 120).

Editorial activities ranks

  • Leipzig work on technical language research (Egelsbach - Frankfurt / M. - Washington: Hänsel-Hohenhausen) 1995–2003.
  • Applied linguistics from an interdisciplinary perspective (Hamburg: Dr. Kovač) since 2006.
  • TRANSUD. Work on the theory and practice of translation and interpreting ; Berlin: Frank & Timme, since 2013. (Together with Hartwig Kalverkämper and Klaus Schubert).
  • FFF. Forum for technical language research ; Berlin: Frank & Timme, since 2013 (together with Hartwig Kalverkämper).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klaus-Dieter Baumann on the website of the University of Leipzig ( Memento from March 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Baumann, Klaus-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Radebeul