Ursula Reutner

Ursula Reutner, 2018

Ursula Reutner (born October 6, 1975 in Bayreuth ) is a German linguist and holder of the Chair for Romance Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Passau .

Life

Ursula Reutner passed her Abitur in 1994 at the Richard-Wagner-Gymnasium in Bayreuth. As part of the Bavarian School for Talented Students, she studied European business administration , philosophy and art history as well as English, French, Italian and Spanish languages ​​and literatures at the University of Bamberg and the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). She completed internships at the Goethe Institute in Chennai in India and at the German Embassy in Quito in Ecuador and was head of the Amnesty International university group in Bamberg. In 2004 she received her doctorate from the University of Augsburg with a thesis on language and identity . In 2007 she completed her habilitation with a thesis on language and taboo . Research and teaching stays have taken her repeatedly to France, Italy, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. From 2001 to 2007 she worked at the chair for Romance Linguistics at the University of Augsburg. From 2007 to 2008 she represented the chair for Romance Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

Since 2009 she has held the chair for Romance Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Passau . She declined calls to the University of Heidelberg in 2011 and to the University of Paderborn in 2014. Since 2010 she has been Scientific Director of the Institute for Intercultural Communication and since 2014 Head of the Language Center at the University of Passau. From 2014 to 2018 she was Vice President for International Relations at this university.

In 2018 she received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires.

Research areas

Ursula Reutner examines multilingual societies of Francophonie and Hispanophonie with regard to questions of linguistic power distribution, language politics and language variation. She works out language taboos in everyday language and in special communication situations. In the case of digital spaces, she asks about linguistic universals and cultural specifics.

Awards

• Honorary doctorate from the Universidad del Salvador (Buenos Aires)
• Prix ​​Germaine de Staël
• Elise Richter Prize

literature

• Portrait of Ursula Reutner, in: Romance Studies in Past and Present Vol. 17, No. 1, 2011, pp. 159–163

Publications (selection)

• Manuel des francophonies. De Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-034670-1
• Intercultural Competence. Instructions for cheating - a learning course. Westermann, Braunschweig 2015, ISBN 978-3-14-162172-3
• Lingüística mediática y traducción audiovisual. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-631-66486-5
• From the newspaper to twilight on Twitter. LIT, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12451-7
• Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-019821-6
• Political Correctness. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-62242-1
• From the digital to the intercultural revolution . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2012 ISBN 978-3-8329-7880-8
• History of the Italian language. Narr, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8233-6653-9
• Language and taboo, interpretations of French and Italian euphemisms . Supplements to the Journal for Romance Philology, 346. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-484-52346-3
• 400 years of Quebec . Cultural contacts between confrontation and cooperation. Winter, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8253-5708-5
• Contributions to Creole Studies . Buske, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-87548-478-6
• Language and Identity of a Post-Colonial Society in the Age of Globalization . A study of the French West Indies, Guadeloupe and Martinique . Buske, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-87548-423-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Ursula Reutner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Ursula Reutner at the University of Passau
• Language and Identity of a Post-Colonial Society in the Age of Globalization (idw, November 28, 2005)
• Literature by and about Ursula Reutner in WorldCat

notes

1. ^ University of Passau: Chair for Romance Linguistics and Cultural Studies . November 14, 2017.
2. ↑ Thoralf Dietz: PD Dr. Ursula Reutner holder of the professorship for Romance Linguistics . April 2, 2009.
3. ↑ Institute for Intercultural Communication: Institute for Intercultural Communication at the University of Passau . 22nd January 2018.
4. ^ University of Passau: Team . 20th November 2017.
5. ^ Klaus Kohnen: University of Passau: New Vice Presidents for term of office from 2014 to 2016 . April 11, 2014.
6. ↑ Gabrielle Cornefert: Plurielles Francophonies . 29th November 2017.
7. ↑ Lisa Kleine: From Negro to African American. The protection of minorities should go without saying . April 2014.
8. ↑ Vito Tartamella: Caspita! Gli eufemismi, parolacce col "lifting" . December 7, 2016.
9. ↑ USAL: Honoris Causa Ursula Reutner . 23 March 2018.
10. ↑ Franco-Romanists Association: Prix ​​Germaine de Staël: Règlement . 22nd January 2018.
11. ^ German Romanists Association: Elise Richter Prize . 22nd January 2018.