Konrad Ehlich
Konrad Ehlich (born September 6, 1942 in Borsdorf ) is a German linguist .
Konrad Ehlich studied Protestant theology, oriental languages, philosophy, sociology and linguistics. He received his doctorate in 1976 from the Free University of Berlin on the Hebrew deictic system. In 1980 he completed his habilitation at the University of Düsseldorf. Ehlich taught from 1981 to 1983 as a professor in Tilburg (text linguistics), from 1983 to 1992 as a professor at the University of Dortmund and since 1992 professor at the LMU Munich (German as a foreign language). Since 2009 he has been an honorary professor at the Free University of Berlin. Ehlich was head of the Institute for German as a Foreign Language at the University of Munich from 1992 to 2007.
Together with Jochen Rehbein, he founded functional pragmatics as a theory of language, in which the category of the purpose of linguistic action is central and the socially based expediency is included in the analysis of linguistic means. The additive drawing model - as developed by Charles W. Morris - is rejected. The theory of language is essentially linked to the psychology of language and field theory of Karl Bühler , Ehlich has developed it further into a five-field model.
His work focuses on pragmatics, German as a foreign / second language, text linguistics, sociology of language, writing, school communication, and Hebraistics. In March 2000, he was from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , the honorary doctorate awarded. From 2001 to 2004 he was first chairman of the German Association of Germanists . In 2014 he was elected to the Academia Europaea . In 2014, he was awarded the German Language Prize by the Henning Kaufmann Foundation in the Stifterverband for German Science .
literature
- Angelika Redder (Ed.): Discourses and Texts. Festschrift for Konrad Ehlich on his 65th birthday. Stauffenburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86057-637-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Konrad Ehlich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Konrad Ehlich's website (with a detailed list of his writings)
- Page at the University of Dortmund
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Really, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Borsdorf |