Michael Schecker

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Michael Schecker (born September 4, 1944 ) is a German linguist (linguistics of German) and neurolinguist , who dealt in particular with cognitive linguistics as well as with cognitive decline phenomena ( dementia , Alzheimer's disease ) and with child development disorders ( SLI , ADHD , ASD , childhood depression ). In Germany, Michael Schecker was involved in the development and establishment of the academic job description ' clinical linguistics / speech therapy '. In Freiburg he was one of the 'founding fathers' of the interdisciplinary "Center for Neurosciences" (ZfN) and the trinational neuroscientific network on the Upper Rhine ("Neuroscience in Freiburg", "Neurex").

Live and act

Michael Schecker studied philosophy , modern German literature and German linguistics in Cologne , Munich and Freiburg . After the state examination (subjects German and philosophy) he did his doctorate in a border area between literary studies and linguistics and habilitated in German linguistics with the thesis "Communicative aspects of grammatical change" (Venia legendi in Germanic Philology ).

From 1980 to 1982 he taught German linguistics at the University of Rennes 2 in France. 1983 followed a research stay at the Institute for German Language in Mannheim and then several years of teaching at the school for speech therapists, Freiburg. In 1996, Schecker received a professorship in Germanic Philology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , with a focus on German linguistics - neurolinguistics . There he took over the management of the Neurolinguistic Laboratory (NLL) Freiburg until 2014, which is currently part of the research area "Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences" at the Freiburg University Clinics. Schecker has been retired since 2015, but at the same time still works as a 'visiting scientist' at the 'Child and Adolescent Psychiatry' of the Freiburg University Clinics.

Among other things, Schecker was a co-applicant for the Freiburg research focus program “Development and dismantling of executive functions ”, the EU network “Control and Selection: Executive Abilities in Central Auditory Processing ” and the interdisciplinary state research focus “ Intersubjective construction and linguistic coding of pain”.

He is / was a member of the German Society for Linguistics , the French Association des germanistes de l'enseignement superieur , the Society for Cognitive Science , the Society for Aphasia Research and Treatment GAB and the German Federal Association for Clinical Linguistics BKL. He is a scientific member of the France Center of the University of Freiburg, the interdisciplinary "Neuroscientific Working Community" of the University of Freiburg and the NEUREX ("the Neuroscience network in the upper Rhine valley"). Finally, he is a founding member of the "Upper Rhine Working Group 'Cognition'" (under EUCOR) of the Universities of Basel, Freiburg and Strasbourg and of the "Center for Neurosciences" (ZfN) of the University of Freiburg.

Schecker is / was also a member of the advisory board of Neurolinguistics - Journal for Aphasia Research and Therapy (in HochschulVerlag Freiburg), the series Eurogermanistik - European studies on the German language (Stauffenburg-Verlag Tübingen) and co-editor of the publication series cognitio - cognitive and neuroscientific contributions to natural Speech processing , now (2015) at Peter Lang Verlag .

Awards

  • 1983: Research award from the Agency for Media Studies and Applied Linguistics (AMAS, Quorum Berlin).
  • 1995: Awarded the University Medal by the University of Nancy , France
  • 1998: Memory Prize of the Society for Memory Rehabilitation - for studies on speech degradation in Alzheimer's disease
  • 2004: Festschrift Sprach interdisciplinary (Cognitio 14, Lang-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-631-56606-0 ) for the 60th birthday
  • 2017: Festschrift "Neurolinguistics, Clinical Linguistics, Speech Pathology" for the 70th birthday

Fonts (selection)

Independent publications

  • Aesthetic Semantics - Attempts at a theoretical literary study. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1977, ISBN 3-261-01985-9 .
  • Communicative aspects of grammatical change. University publications. Freiburg i.Br. 1991.
  • with G. Kochendörfer: Schizophrenia, psychotropic drugs, stuttering - approaches to an explanation and simulation of neuroleptics. Hochschulverlag, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-8233-5730-1 .
  • with Gabriele Möller and Christiane Weber: Deficits in language processing and disturbed conversation behavior in mentally ill children. Narr, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-8233-5732-8 .

Editorial activity

  • Methodology of Linguistics. Hoffmann et al. Campe, Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-455-09196-2 .
  • Theory of reasoning. Narr, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-87808-076-X .
  • Questions and queries in German. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-86057-369-1 .
  • Word finding and word finding disorders. Narr, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-8233-5738-7 .
  • with P. Wunderli: Text grammar. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1975, ISBN 3-484-22016-3 .
  • with J. Dittmann and R. Marten: Subject and Truth. Linguistic-philosophical and scientific-theoretical basic studies in linguistics. Narr, Tübingen 1976, ISBN 3-87808-059-X .
  • with H. Kindt: Language and Schizophrenia. Hochschulverlag, Freiburg 1998, ISBN 3-8107-6701-8 .
  • with G. Kleiber, G. Kochendörfer and M. Riegel: Cognitive Linguistics and Neurosciences. Narr, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-8233-5734-4 .
  • with Chr. Hock and M. Hüll: Alzheimer's disease. Narr, Tübingen 2000, ISBN 3-8233-5736-0 .
  • with D. Veith: “Describing” and “Explaining” in Clinical Linguistics. Narr, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-8233-5739-5 .
  • with S. Adam and D. Jacob: Information structures in contrast - structures, compositions and strategies. Lang-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-66301-1 , doi: 10.3726 / 978-3-653-05534-4 .

List of Publications Last Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ zfn.uni-freiburg.de
  2. ↑ neuro.uni-freiburg.de
  3. ↑ neurex.org
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neurolabor.de
  5. ↑ uniklinik-freiburg.de
  6. ↑ portal.uni-freiburg.de
  7. ↑ ages-info.org
  8. ↑ aphasiegesellschaft.de
  9. ↑ bkl-ev.de
  10. ↑ fz.uni-freiburg.de
  11. ↑ neurag.uni-freiburg.de
  12. ↑ neurex.org
  13. ↑ zfn.uni-freiburg.de
  14. ↑ journalseek.net
  15. ↑ stauffenburg.de
  16. ↑ peterlang.com
  17. ^ University of Freiburg, Uni-Magazin 3, June 1998, p. 5.
  18. ↑ neurolabor.de
  19. ↑ Cognitio 19, Lang-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-631-71889-6 , doi: 10.3726 / b11124
  20. ↑ katalog.ub.uni-freiburg.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / katalog.ub.uni-freiburg.de  
  21. ↑ neurolabor.de
  22. ↑ researchgate.net
personal data
SURNAME Schecker, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and neurolinguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1944