Siegfried Jäger

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Siegfried Jäger (born April 17, 1937 in Duisburg ; † August 16, 2020 ) was a German linguist . From 1972 to 2002 he was a full professor at the Gerhard-Mercator-University-GH-Duisburg . Since 1987 he has been head of the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research (DISS) and researched discourse analysis on racism and right-wing extremism .

Life

Jäger was born in 1937 as the son of an engineer and his wife. He attended schools in Waldmannshof in the Mergentheim district (from 1943) and Duisburg (from 1946). After graduating from Mercator-Gymnasium in 1956 , he studied German, English and theology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from the 1957 summer semester . He finished his studies in 1963 with the 1st state examination in German and English. In 1958/59 he studied for two trimesters at the University of Exeter in England.

From 1963 to 1965 he was a research assistant at the University of Bonn. From 1965 to 1971, Jäger was a research assistant at the Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim . In 1967, hunters in Hugo Moser at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn with a thesis studies on the composition of the Crescentia Kaiserchronik, the Vorauer and Strassburger Alexander and Duke Ernst B. to Dr. phil. PhD.

In 1971/72 he was Scientific Counselor and Professor of German Linguistics at the Pedagogical University (PH) in Dortmund . In 1972 Jäger became a full professor (C 4) for German studies with a focus on linguistics / discourse analysis at Department 3 of the Gerhard-Mercator-University-GH-Duisburg . He received research assignments a. a. from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, from MAGS / MASSKS NRW and from the Ministry of Culture NRW . In 1997 he was visiting professor at the University of Klagenfurt . He retired in 2002 . His academic students include: a. Jobs Paul and Frank Wichert .

In 1987, Jäger was the founder and since then head of the Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research (DISS). His research focus is critical discourse analysis , for which he has written a paradigmatic introductory work. Lecture tours have taken him around the world, numerous project weeks, but also colloquia on right-wing extremism and racism . Jäger acted as an expert for the Interior Committee of the German Bundestag ("Politically Motivated Violence" 1993), the main committee of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia ("Racism and Right-Wing Extremism" 1993) and for the round table of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research ("Youth and Violence") 1994). Together with Teun van Dijk , Laura Balbo and Nora Räthzel , he founded the International Association for the Study of Racism (IASR) in 1991 , of which he is a member.

From 1978 to 1983 he worked as a reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the field of teaching and learning research. He was also a reviewer for the German-Jewish Society (1992), the Swiss National Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (2002/03) and the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism (2002, 2004). In 1993/94 he designed numerous workshops on right-wing extremism and racism for RWE . From 2000 to 2004 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance (BfDT).

From 1969 to 1971, Jäger was part of the editorial team of the magazine Muttersprachige. Quarterly for the German language and from 1971 to 1985 the department of Linguistic Reports . He was co-editor of Discourse & Society (now a member of the Advisory Editorial Board) and the Journal of Multicultural Discourses .

He was married to the linguist Margarete Jäger .

Fonts (selection)

(without DISS publications)

  • with Joseph Huber, Peter Schätzle: language, speaker, speak. Problems in the area of ​​sociolinguistic theory and empiricism (= research reports of the Institute for German Language . Vol. 8). Narr, Tübingen 1972, ISBN 3-87808-608-3 .
  • (Ed.): Linguistics and statistics (= writings on linguistics . Vol. 6). Vieweg, Braunschweig 1972, ISBN 3-528-03705-9 .
  • with Veronika Fischer , Raimund Küchler: From the benefit of sociolinguistics (= monographs . Vol. 35). Scriptor-Verlag, Kronberg / Taunus 1977, ISBN 3-589-20610-1 .
  • Language Practice of Consciousness. For the systematic recording of speech (= monographs . Vol. 36). Scriptor-Verlag, Kronberg 1977, ISBN 3-589-20611-X .
  • with Veronika Fischer, Werner Müller (ed.): Why does the giraffe cry? (= Monographs . Vol. 37). Scriptor-Verlag, Kronberg 1978, ISBN 3-589-20612-8 .
  • (Ed.): Right print. The press of the new right (= Dietz-Taschenbuch . Vol. 24). Publishing house JHW Dietz Nachf., Berlin u. a. 1988, ISBN 3-8012-3024-4 .
  • with Christoph Butterwegge : Racism in Europe . 2nd edition, Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7663-2467-5 .
  • with Christoph Butterwegge (Ed.): Europe against the rest of the world ?. Refugee movements, immigration, asylum policy . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7663-2423-3 .
  • with Margarete Jäger : Dangerous inheritances. The creeping restoration of right thinking (= construction paperbacks . 7019). Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7466-7019-5 .
  • with Margarete Jäger: Medienbild Israel. Between solidarity and anti-Semitism (= media . Vol. 3). Lit, Münster u. a. 203, ISBN 3-8258-6446-4 .
  • with Martin Dietzsch , Helmut Kellershohn , Alfred Schobert : Nation instead of Democracy: Being and Design of "Young Freedom" (= Edition DISS . Vol. 4). 2nd unchanged edition, Unrast, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89771-733-6 .
  • with Alfred Schobert (Ed.): Mythos Identity. Fiction with consequences (= Edition DISS . Vol. 6). Unrast, Münster 2004. ISBN 3-89771-735-2 .
  • with Franz Januschek (Ed.): Felt history and struggles for identity (= Edition DISS . Vol. 1). Unrast, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-89771-730-1 .
  • with Margarete Jäger: Struggles for interpretation. Theory and practice of critical discourse analysis (= media - culture - communication ). VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15072-7 .
  • with Dirk Halm (Ed.): Medial barriers. Racism as an obstacle to integration (= Edition DISS . Vol. 13). Unrast, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-89771-742-8 .
  • (Ed.): How critical is critical discourse analysis ?. Approaches to a turning point in critical science (= Edition DISS . Vol. 20). Unrast, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-89771-749-7 .
  • with Michael Brocke , Margarete Jäger, Jobst Paul , Iris Tonks: Visions of a just society. The Discourse of German-Jewish Journalism in the 19th Century . Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20315-3 .
  • with Jens Zimmermann (ed.): Lexicon critical discourse analysis. A tool box (= Edition DISS . Vol. 26). Unrast, Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-89771-755-8 .
  • with Rolf van Raden (Ed.): In the grip of the media. Crisis production and subjectification effects (= Edition DISS . Vol. 29). Unrast, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-89771-758-9 .
  • Critical discourse analysis. An introduction (= Edition DISS . Vol. 3). 7th completely revised edition, Unrast, Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-89771-761-9 .

literature

  • Gabriele Cleve, Ina Ruth, Ernst Schulte-Holtey, Frank Wichert (eds.): Science makes politics. Interventions in current social discourses. Siegfried Jäger on his 60th birthday . Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-89691-406-5 .
  • Rainer Diaz-Bone : Critical discourse analysis: To elaborate a problem- related discourse analysis following Foucault (Siegfried Jäger in conversation with Rainer Diaz-Bone). In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research 7 (2006) 3 ( online ).
  • Wilfried Kürschner (Ed.): Linguist Handbook . Biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present . Volume 1: A-L . Special edition, Narr, Tübingen 1994 ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 , pp. 413-414.

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personal data
SURNAME Hunter, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 2020