Roland Harweg

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Roland Eduard Paul Harweg (born August 20, 1934 in Dortmund ; † April 12, 2019 ) was a German linguist , Germanist and semioticist.

Life

Roland Harweg, son of the naval officer Eduard Harweg, attended elementary schools in Dortmund and Gütersloh and a middle school in Lüdenscheid, the Zeppelin-Gymnasium Lüdenscheid and the Stadtgymnasium Dortmund , where he graduated from high school in 1955.

From 1955 to 1961 he studied general and comparative linguistics as well as Latin , Greek , Sanskrit and a few other oriental languages at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . His academic teachers included the general linguist Peter Hartmann , the comparative linguist Alfred Schmitt , the Indo-European and Caucasus scientist Karl Horst Schmidt , the classical philologist Hermann Kleinknecht , the Indologist Hermann Berger , the Egyptologist Walther Wolf , the Hittitologist Einar von Schuler , the Turkologist Gotthard Jäschke and the East Asian scholars Otto Karow and Bruno Lewin .

1960 put Harweg in the subjects of Latin and Greek, the state examination and was with the 1961 to 1964 under the title compound and Katalysationstext, especially in late Sanskrit - appeared in print dissertation Late Ancient Indian nominal compounds, Katalysationstexte and context selection at Peter Hartmann doctorate . From 1960 to 1965 he was a research assistant to Peter Hartmann, in 1965 he completed his habilitation with him with the script Pronomina and Text Constitution for general and Indo-European linguistics, and from 1965 to 1969 he taught as a lecturer at the University of Münster. In autumn 1969 he was appointed full professor for German linguistics at the German Institute of the Ruhr University in Bochum . He held this position until his retirement in 1999. During his time in Bochum, he held various guest lectureships at Tongji University in Shanghai and spent a longer research stay at Tokyo-Daigaku, the former Imperial University of Tokyo .

Harweg lived in Witten .

Act

With his habilitation thesis Pronomina und Textkonstitution (which was recognized by Wolfgang Dressler as "the first large monograph on text linguistics" and by Teun A. van Dijk and János S. Petöfi as "a first large monograph dealing with the problems of text constitution") Roland Harweg was one of the founders of the text linguistics that arose in the German-speaking world in the mid-1960s. The core of this book is a much-cited (and often criticized) definition of the text as "a chain of linguistic units constituted by uninterrupted pronominal [to be understood in a strongly expanded sense of this word] chain". Harweg used the term successive, following Louis Hjelmslev , not only in relation to writing, but, as has become common in text linguistics, also in relation to verbal, i.e. in the form of conversations, constituted linguistic succession.

Harweg has expanded, deepened and modified the ideas he developed in this book in a large number of essays and applied them to the text genre drama in his book Situation and Text in Drama using the example of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's tragic comedy The Visit of the Old Lady , including pragmatic and fictional theoretical aspects and extended. Harweg has expanded the text model based on his text definition primarily through the introduction of the concept of large text (later also called macro text by others) and the concept of plurilinear text. For him, large-format texts were, for example, the web of newspaper or radio news and certain news and plurilinear texts, for example texts with footnotes, that they assumed.

In addition to questions of text linguistics, Harweg has dealt in numerous essays with problems of New High German and comparative language grammar, dealing with questions from the field of the most diverse types of words, especially that of the verb. He has also dealt with questions of deixis , narrative theory , the relationship between object language and metalanguage , the relationship between names and words, the relationship between sound and writing, and the relationship between fiction and reality. A type of expression that he has analyzed in more detail for the first time is the so-and-so or so- and-so, which is extremely common in colloquial language and also demonstrable in a wide variety of languages .

After his retirement, Harweg dealt with issues of chronography, among other things . In doing so, he identified two basic forms of chronography, one with and one without a connection to the respective present (of authors and readers), and these two forms (of which he characterized and described the former as historiographic and the latter as mythographic) in texts of different times and different cultures.

In his book Life and Death , published in 2017, Harweg has a conception of "phenomenological" life and "phenomenological" death (with the special form of spatial death) defined by experience or non-experience and a conception of biological life and biological death based on the Janus-headed thesis evolved from biological life after biological death.

In the field of semiotics , Harweg, beginning with his inaugural lecture in Münster in 1966, dealt with the relationship between language and music in various essays.

Book publications

author

  • Compound and catalysis text, mainly in late Sanskrit. The Hague 1964.
  • Pronouns and text constitution. 1st edition Munich 1968, 2nd edition Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7705-1657-5 .
  • Studies on Deixis. Bochum 1990, ISBN 3-88339-788-1 .
  • Studies on time levels and their aspectuality. 2 half volumes. Bochum 1994, ISBN 3-8196-0116-3 and ISBN 3-8196-0263-1 .
  • Names and words. 1st half volume Bochum 1997, ISBN 3-8196-0530-4 , 2nd half volume Bochum 1998, ISBN 3-8196-0531-2 .
  • Studies on generic names and substance names. Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-8265-4945-7 .
  • Studies on proper names. Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-8265-6139-2 .
  • Own names and foreign names. Aachen 1999, ISBN 3-8265-6477-4 .
  • Studies in text linguistics. Aachen 2001, ISBN 3-8265-8741-3 .
  • Situation and text in the drama. A text-linguistic-fictional analysis study using the example of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's tragic comedy "The Old Lady's Visit". Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 3-8253-1225-9 .
  • with Elke Harweg and Peter Canisius: Secondary indeterminacy. Studies on a universal special form of speech reproduction. Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-8322-1089-X .
  • with Peter Canisius: Studies on pronouns. Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-8322-4055-1 .
  • Time in Myth and History. 1. Volume: Forms of Chronography. Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-1574-5 .
  • Time in Myth and History. Volume 2: Time in Myth and History in European Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1575-2 .
  • Time in Myth and History. Volume 3: Chronography in the Orient from Antiquity to the Present. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1576-9 .
  • Time in Myth and History. Volume 4: Time in Fiction and History in the - primarily European - Modern Era. Case studies. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1577-6 .
  • Studies on conjunctions and prepositions. Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8322-9271-3 .
  • Fiction and double reality. Studies on the double existence of novel and short story locations using the example of the early work - especially the "Buddenbrooks" - by Thomas Mann. Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-643-11660-4 .
  • Studies on the verb and its environment. Essays. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12597-2 .
  • Life and death. The two great states of being and modes of being in and after one another. Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13612-1 .

editor

  • with Manfred Faust, Werner Lehfeldt and Götz Wienold (eds.): General linguistics, language typology and text linguistics. Festschrift for Peter Hartmann on his 60th birthday. Tübingen 1983, ISBN 3-87808-215-0 .
  • with Shoko Kishitani and Maximilian Scherner (eds.): "The German Language - Shape and Performance". Hennig Brinkmann in the discussion. For his ninetieth birthday. Münster 1991, ISBN 3-89323-225-7 .
  • with Franz Hundsnurscher and Eijiro Iwasaki (eds.): "Getriwe ân allez wenken". Festschrift for Shoko Kishitani on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Göppingen 2006, ISBN 3-87452-982-7 .

literature

  • Peter Canisius, Clemens-Peter Herbermann, Gerhard Tschauder (eds.): Text and grammar. Festschrift for Roland Harweg on his 60th birthday. Bochum 1994, ISBN 3-8196-0283-6 (therein list of publications by Roland Harweg until 1994)
  • Elisabeth Gülich, Wolfgang Raible: Linguistic text models. Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7705-0650-2 , pp. 115-127.
  • Franz K. Stanzel: Theory of storytelling. Göttingen 1979, ISBN 3-525-03204-8 , pp. 216f. and 233-238
  • Luc Gobyn: Text types . A comparison of methods, illustrated by a fairy tale. Brussels 1984, ISBN 90-6569-341-6 , pp. 85-103.
  • Wei Wen-yao: Interview with Professor Harweg about text linguistics (1985) [for the Chinese magazine Wai yu jie, in which the interview was published in 1986 in Chinese translation]. In: Roland Harweg: Studies on text linguistics. Aachen 2001, ISBN 3-8265-8741-3 , pp. 55-60.
  • Eckard Rolf: The functions of the types of useful text . Berlin, New York 1993, ISBN 3-11-012551-X , pp. 2-16.
  • Erika Greber: On the redefinition of contiguity anaphers . In: Linguistics. Volume 18, 1993, p. 369 ff.
  • Michael Schreiber: Text grammar - Spoken language - Language comparison. Frankfurt am Main et al. 1998, ISBN 3-631-35049-X , especially pp. 125-171.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2014. Bio-bibliographical directory of contemporary German-speaking scientists. 26th edition. Berlin, Boston 2014, Volume 2, ISBN 978-3-11-030256-1 , p. 1282.
  • Wilfried Kürschner (Ed.): Linguist Handbook. Biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present. Tübingen 1994, Volume 1, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 , p. 329.
  • Who's who in Europe. Dictionnaire biographique des personnalités européennes contemporaines. 7th Edition, 1987-88, Waterloo 1987, ISBN 2-87231-000-2 , p. 1083.
  • Who is who? The German who's who. Founded by Walter Habel. 45th edition 2007/2008, ISBN 978-3-7950-2044-6 , p. 488.
  • Zhou Heng-xiang: Roland Harweg. In: Guówài yǔyánxué. Linguistics abroad. 1992, 4, ISSN  1002-5987 , p. 23.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Obituary Roland Harweg , FAZ from May 1, 2019
  2. Roland Harweg: My school days. In: Joachim Wittkowski (Ed.): Hic, haec, hoc. The teacher has a stick. School stories from the Ruhr area. Bottrop 2007, ISBN 978-3-922750-70-3 , pp. 89-107.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Dressler: Text syntax. In: Lingua e stile. Volume 5, 1970, p. 193.
  4. Teun A. van Dijk, János S. Petofi: Foreword: The Genesis of this Reader. In: Teun A. van Dijk, János S. Petöfi (eds.): Grammars and Descriptions. Berlin, New York 1977, ISBN 3-11-005741-7 , p. VII.
  5. Wolfgang Dressler: Harweg, Roland: Pronomina and text constitution (advertisement). In: The language. Journal of Linguistics. Volume 15, 1969, p. 66f., Shoko Kishitani: Doitsu no gengokenkyû ni okeru shinkeikô to shite no tekusuto gengogaku ni tsuite ("Text linguistics as a new direction in German language research"). In: Enerugeia ( Energeia ). Volume 2, 1970, pp. 106-109 and Hennig Brinkmann : The German language. Shape and performance. 2nd Edition. Düsseldorf 1971, ISBN 3-7895-0006-2 , pp. 726f., 917
  6. A positive assessment of the definition can be found e.g. B. in Robert de Beaugrande : Text, Discourse, and Process. Toward a Multidisciplinary Science of Texts. London 1980, ISBN 0-582-29109-7 , p. 133.
  7. ^ Roland Harweg: pronouns and text constitution. P. 148.
  8. ^ Louis Hjelmslev: Prolegomena to a Theory of Language. Baltimore 1953.
  9. Gerhard Tschauder: text links. Approaches to a macrotextology, also taking into account fictional texts. Bochum 1989, ISBN 3-88339-739-3 .
  10. Roland Harweg: On the textology of the first name: Perspektiven einer Großraumtextologie. In: Linguistics. Volume 61, 1970, pp. 12-28.
  11. ^ Roland Harweg: Bifurcations de textes. In: Semiotica. Volume 12, 1974, pp. 41-59.
  12. Applied to the phenomenon of hypertexts , the networking of texts in the global network ( WorldWideWeb ), the concepts of large-format text and plurilinear text can be found, combined with Harweg's concept of rudimentary texts (from Roland Harweg: non-texts, rudimentary texts, well-formed texts. In: Folia Linguistica, Volume 7, 1975, pp. 371–388), in Birgitta Bexten: What does hypertext do with text? Text-linguistic insights into the limiting and delimiting effects of paratext and text in hypertext. Utrecht 2010, ISBN 978-94-6093-024-9 .
  13. Manfred von Roncador: Between direct and indirect speech. Non-literal direct speech, experienced speech, logophoric constructions and related things. Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-484-30192-9 , p. 104.
  14. ^ Roland Harweg, Elke Harweg, Peter Canisius: Secondary indeterminacy. Studies on a universal special form of speech reproduction. Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-8322-1089-X .
  15. The text of the inaugural lecture served as the starting point for a discussion with the English scholar Ulrich Suerbaum and the musicologist Heinz Becker , which was published under the title Language and Music in the journal Poetica. Volume 1, 1967, pp. 390-414 and pp. 556-566. A review of this discussion is from the pen of Tomislav Volek under the title diskuse na téma 'jazyk a hudba' in the Czech magazine Hudební věda. Volume 6, 1969, pp. 352-355.