Sigurd Imp

Sigurd Wichter (born June 5, 1944 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German linguist who taught at the universities in Braunschweig, Münster and Göttingen.

Career

Wichter studied German, history and Russian at the universities of Marburg , Berlin (Free University) and Bochum from 1963 to 1969 . In 1972 he received his doctorate in Bochum with the dissertation on the critique of the modern grammar of German ; 1980 Habilitation in Bochum with the habilitation thesis Significant Equal Signs . Substitute professor in Braunschweig; from the winter semester 1981 professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster; from 1997 to 2009 professor in the linguistics department of the seminar for German philology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . From 1988 member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim, from 1998 to 2008 member of the International Scientific Council of the same institute. Retired since reaching the age limit.

Focus of work

The main focus of his work is the following: "Expert-lay communication, knowledge transfer, social communication, discourse communication, lexicons and grammar." On the subject of "Expert-lay communication" he supervised a number of dissertations that are part of the book series German studies on language and Kulturgeschichte des Verlag Peter Lang published. On the subject of “ knowledge transfer ”, Wichter organized, in cooperation with Gerd Antos (University of Halle), annual colloquia lasting several days, alternating between Göttingen and Halle in 1999, the files of which were published in 2001-2009.

Publications

• Problems of the concept of mode in German. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1978. (= dissertation)
• Significantly equal signs. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1988. ISBN 3-87808-160-X .
• For the expansion of computer vocabulary into the common language. Elements of the vertical language history of a thing. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1991. ISBN 3-631-43621-1 .
• Experts and lay vocabulary. Outline of a Lexicology of Verticality. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1994. ISBN 3-484-31144-4 .
• Communication series of conversations and textual communications. For communication in and between societies . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2011. ISBN 978-3-11-023409-1 .
• Introduction to the linguistic theory of communication series. For linguistic communication in a society. Without publishing house, Münster 2015. (Published on the Internet under Wichter: Linguistic Theory of Communication Series.)

Other academic activities: many essays, reviews and lectures.

Editorial activity

Wichter was / is co-editor of

• Book series German studies on language and cultural history , 1991ff.
• Journal for German Linguistics , 1993–2002.
• Book series German Linguistics Series , 2001–2010.
• Book series / conference files on transfer science, 2001ff.
• Glottotheory. International Journal of Theoretical Linguistics , 2008ff. (Member of the Editorial Board)

literature

• Wilfried Kürschner (Ed.): Linguist Handbook. Narr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-8233-5000-5 . To Sigurd Wichter, page 1018.

Festschrift

• Albert Busch, Oliver Stenschke (ed.): Knowledge transfer and social communication. Festschrift for Sigurd Wichter on his 60th birthday. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2004. ISBN 3-631-51823-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Busch, Stenschke, 2004, page 6.
2. ↑ Busch, Stenschke, 2004, page 5.
3. ↑ for example: Silke Schimpf: Knowledge and vocabulary variations in the area of ​​sexuality. Investigations on the basis of selected magazine texts. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, a. a. 1997. ISBN 3-631-31611-9 .
4. ↑ Sigurd Wichter, Gerd Antos (ed.), In collaboration with Daniela Schütte and Oliver Stenschke: Knowledge transfer between experts and laypeople. Outline of a transfer science. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, a. a. 2011. ISBN 3-631-36572-1 , and others, a total of 7 volumes.

Web links

• Sigurd Wichter, website of the University of Göttingen, with a list of publications.