Simon Meier-Vieracker

Simon Meier-Vieracker (* 1980 in Basel as Simon Meier ) is a Swiss linguist with a research focus on corpus , discourse and media linguistics . He has been Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Technical University of Dresden since 2020 .

Life

Meier-Vieracker studied communication science and philosophy at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the University of Florence . After completing his studies, he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Bern , where he received his doctorate in 2012 . Subsequently, he worked as a research assistant at the Department of General Linguistics at the Technical University of Berlin , before taking on the position of professor for applied linguistics at the Dresden Institute for German Studies in October 2017 . He was appointed to its owner in February 2020.

Memberships (selection)

• Advisory board member and co-head of the media communication section of the Society for Applied Linguistics
• Member of the Society for German Language History
• Member of the scientific network "Discourses - digital: theories, methods, case studies" of the German Research Foundation

Fonts (selection)

• Insults: An investigation into honor and defamation in everyday communication. Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8322-6265-5 .
• Conversation ideals: Normative reflection in conversation in the 20th century. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-031488-5 .

Web links

• Literature by Simon Meier-Vieracker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Simon Meier-Vieracker on the website of the Technical University of Dresden
• Jana Höhnisch: Prof. Dr. Simon Meier-Vieracker - New Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Institute for German Studies. In: tu-dresden.de. Technical University of Dresden , April 6, 2020, accessed on April 6, 2020 .