Wolfgang Werner Sauer

Wolfgang Werner Sauer (born March 4, 1944 ) is a German linguist.

Sauer was in 1979 at the University of Hannover doctorate with a thesis on language use by Nazis before the 1,933th

In 1987 he completed his habilitation. His main research interests are contemporary German, ideology-specific forms of language and dictionary analysis . Until his retirement he was a professor at the University of Hanover.

Publications (selection)

• as editor with Klaus Welke, Helmut Glück : The German Language after the Wende (= German Linguistics 110/111). Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1992, ISBN 3-487-09627-7 .
• with Helmut Glück: Contemporary German (= Metzler Collection 252). Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1990, ISBN 3-476-10252-1 (2nd, revised and expanded edition. Ibid 1997, ISBN 3-476-12252-2 ).
• The Duden". History and topicality of a “folk dictionary”. Metzler, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-476-00638-7 (also: Hannover, Universität, habilitation paper, 1987).

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Werner Sauer in the catalog of the German National Library