Rudi Keller

Rudi Keller (born October 4, 1942 in Mannheim ) is a German linguist .

Career

Rudi Keller studied German language and literature and art history at the University of Heidelberg from 1964 to 1969 . In 1978 he completed his habilitation in Düsseldorf for the subject of German linguistics . From 1978 to 2010 he was a university professor at the German Department of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . His research areas are language change , sign theory and corporate communication .

From 1992 to 1994 he was chairman of the German Society for Linguistics . He was dean of the Philosophical Faculty at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf from 1994 to 1998. Since 1996 he has been a juror for the “Language” segment in the annual “manager magazin” competition The best annual report .

Works (selection)

• About the concept of presupposition . (Dissertation Heidelberg 1974) Pedagogical Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1975, ISBN 3-590-15706-2 .
• Sign theory. To a theory of semiotic knowledge . Tübingen - Basel, Francke 1995 (UTB 1849), ISBN 3-8252-1849-X .
• Change of meaning. An introduction . With Ilja Kirschbaum. de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-017667-4 .
• The annual report. Convincing corporate communication through clear language and good German . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-8349-0163-7 .
• Language change. About the invisible hand in language . 4th unchanged edition. Francke, Tübingen et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-8252-4253-4 , (UTB for science - university paperbacks - linguistics 1567).

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudi Keller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rudi Keller's website at the University of Düsseldorf