Ludger Hoffmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ludger Hoffmann (* 1951 in Hövelhof , Paderborn district) is a German linguist. He teaches as a professor at the Technical University of Dortmund . Hoffmann has written works on the functional grammar of German, communication in court and the language of law, multilingualism and human language skills, and grammar and poetics.

Life

After graduating from high school in Paderborn in 1969, Hoffmann studied German, Catholic theology and philosophy in Münster. After completing his doctorate in German studies in 1977 on the subject of "On the Language of Pre-School Children", Hoffmann was a research assistant at the University of Education from 1978 to 1980 and at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster from 1980 to 1986 . During this time he completed his habilitation on "communication in court".

After academic positions in Münster, Mannheim ( Institute for German Language ) and Hamburg, he has been working at the Chair for German Language and German as a Second and Foreign Language at the Technical University of Dortmund since 1997.

A festschrift was published in his honor on his 65th birthday.

Research priorities

  • German grammar
  • Functional grammar theory, functional syntax
  • Grammar lesson
  • Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
  • German as a foreign / second language
  • Language acquisition, basics of human language skills
  • Language and law, court communication
  • Language and National Socialism
  • Grammar and poetics

Works

Monographs
  • On the language of preschool children . 1978
  • Communication in court . 1983
  • German language grammar . 3 volumes, 1997, with Gisela Zifonun, Bruno Strecker et al.
  • German grammar. Basics for teacher training, school, German as a second language and German as a foreign language . 2016 (3rd, revised and expanded edition)
As editor
  • Legal discourses . 1989
  • German syntax . 1992
  • Functional syntax . 2003
  • German parts of speech . 2007
  • Language didactics in multilingual learning groups . 2011, with Yüksel Ekinci-Kocks
  • The matrix of human development . 2011, with Kerstin Leimbrink, Uta Quasthoff
  • Migration multilingual education . 2013, with Yüksel Ekinci, Kerstin Leimbrink, Lirim Selmani
  • German as second language. A manual for teacher training. 2017, with Shinichi Kameyama, Monika Riedel, Pembe Şahiner, Nadja Wulff
  • Writing . Dortmund poetics lectures by Felicitas Hoppe; Writing scenes and writing - literary and linguistic perspectives. 2017, with Martin Stingelin
  • Functional grammar and language comparison . 2018, with Olga Naumovich, Lirim Selmani
  • Linguistics. A reader . 2019 (4th extended edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ekinci, Yüksel / Montanari, Elke / Selmani, Lirim (eds.) Grammar and Variation. Festschrift for Ludger Hoffmann . Heidelberg: Synchron Verlag, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Ludger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hövelhof