Sabine Fiedler

Sabine Fiedler at a symposium at UAM Posen

Sabine Fiedler (born December 9, 1957 in Gorndorf ) is a German linguist who teaches at the University of Leipzig .

Sabine Fiedler studied English and Russian at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and did her doctorate in English linguistics. Since 1986 she worked at the University of Education in Leipzig, then at the University of Leipzig. In 1999 she completed her habilitation in general linguistics (in interlinguistics ).

Her main research interests include phraseology, interlinguistics / Esperantology, language politics and lingua franca communication. Since 2011 she has been chairwoman of the Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik e. V.

Works (selection)

• Specialized linguistic studies on the communication area in education. Lang, Frankfurt a. M. [u. a.], 1991
• Planned language and phraseology. Empirical research on reproduced language material in Esperanto. Lang, Frankfurt a. M. [u. a.], 1999
• Esperanta frazeologio. Universala Esperanto Asocio, Rotterdam 2002
• Language games in comics. The profile of the German comic magazine Mosaik. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2003
• English phraseology. A coursebook. Narr, Tübingen 2007
• (with Cyril Brosch, ed.) Florilegium Interlinguisticum. Festschrift for Detlev Blanke on his 70th birthday. Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 2011
• (with Ines Busch-Lauer, ed.) Language area Europe - All English or ...? Frank & Timme, Berlin 2011
• (with Uwe Quasthoff and Erla Hallsteinsdóttir, eds.) Frequency Dictionary German (2011), English (2012), Icelandic (2012), French (2013), Hungarian (2013), Esperanto (2014) Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig
• English idioms and proverbs in practice. Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2012
• "Glass ceiling" and "Elephant in the room" - phraseological Anglicisms in German. Logos, Berlin 2014

Web links

• Literature by and about Sabine Fiedler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Employee site at the University of Leipzig