Zhu Jianhua (German Studies)

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Zhu Jianhua

Zhu Jianhua ( Chinese  朱建华 , Pinyin Zhū ​​Jiànhuá ; * July 1956 in Shanghai ) is a Chinese German studies specialist .

Life

Zhu Jianhua completed a four-year university course in 1978 at the Shanghai University of Foreign Languages, in 1981 his master's degree at Tongji University , and received his doctorate in 1987 from Ruhr University Bochum. Since 1993 he has been a full professor for German studies and dean of the German faculty at Tongji University. He was a Humboldt Fellow (1994–1995) and in 2001 and 2003 he was visiting professor at the University of Duisburg and the TU Berlin.

Functions

  • Chairman of the International Association for German Studies (IVG) (since 2010)
  • Committee member of the International Association for German Studies (IVG) (since 2005)
  • Board member of the Society for Intercultural German Studies (GIG) (since 2007)
  • Vice Chairman of the Working Group on Intercultural German Studies in China (since 2004)
  • Chairman of the branch of the Society for the German Language in Shanghai (since 1999),
  • Vice-chairman of the instruction committee for foreign language courses at colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education in China, head of the working group for university German (since 1993)
  • Secretary General of the Humboldt Club Shanghai (since 1998).

Publications

In the special fields of applied linguistics, technical language linguistics, word formation, lexicography , contrastive linguistics, intercultural communication Chinese-German, didactics / methodology for German as a foreign language, he wrote over 100 publications. Zhu is the editor of the Literaturstrasse (Chinese-German yearbook for language, literature and culture; Königshausen & Neumann ISSN  1616-4016 ), editor of German literature and literary criticism (Volksliteratur Verlag Beijing ISBN 978-7-02-006618-6 )) and publisher of the German-Chinese Forum for Intercultural Education (IUDICIUM ISSN  1865-021X ).

Research priorities

I. Theory and Practice of Technical Language Research

Here he worked from the word formation research in the technical language of silicate technology in the 1980s, expanded to include research into specialist lexicography, specialist text structure and function, communication processes, terminology research, and research into intercultural specialist communication between German and Chinese.

Representative publications:

  1. Morphology, semantics and function of technical language compounds . Julius Groos, Heidelberg 1987
  2. Technical language compounds from a pragmatic and textual perspective . In: Dialog . Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1990
  3. Specialized text - orientation of technical language research since the 1980s . In: Journal of Tongji-University , 1/1991
  4. Technical communication procedures . In: Journal of Tongji University , 2/1993
  5. Thoughts on computer-aided German-Chinese specialist lexicography . In: Research on Lexicography 3/1993, pp. 73-78
  6. Manual for reading German technical language . (Co-author) Verlag der Chemie-Industrie, 1997
  7. Contrasting observations of German and Chinese specialist languages ​​and specialist cultures . In: Anthology of “Literature in the Multimedia Age”, Korean Society for German Studies. Seoul 1998
  8. Considerations for interlingual and intercultural specialist communication Chinese-German . In: Work on intercultural communication Chinese-German . Tongji University Publishing House, Shanghai 2000
  9. Technical languages ​​in German and their role in German-Chinese specialist communication . In: Zhang Yushu, Winfried Woesler, Horst Thome (eds.): Literaturstraße - Chinese-German yearbook for language, literature and culture (Volume 2 2001) Volksliteratur Verlag, Beijing 2001
  10. Technical language linguistics, technical language didactics and intercultural communication . Zhu Jianhua, Thomas Zimmer (Ed.): Economy-Technology-Media . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003
  11. Terminology research by Eugen Wüster - early bloomer in technical language linguistics . In: N. Kimura, K. Moser v. Filseck (Ed.): Universality and particular realities - natural and human sciences in dialogue . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007. pp. 251–256
  12. Wan Gang, Wu Zhihong, Wei Yi, Zhu Jianhua and others a. (Ed.): Technical dictionary technology and applied sciences German-Chinese . Tongji University Publishing House, Shanghai 2009
  13. Zhao Gen, Zhu Jianhua: Mutual Influences Between Technical Vocabulary and Common Language Vocabulary . In: Terminology of Science and Technology in China 2009, Issue 5.

II. Theory and practice in the field of didactics and methodology of German as a foreign language

This involves the introduction of theoretical approaches such as functional-communicative language description, research into multilingualism, pragmatics and intercultural language didactics , as well as research into promoting the complex language skills of Chinese learners of German. Since the 1990s he has been responsible for numerous projects in curricula , textbooks and exams for university German (German as an application subject) in China. The textbook "Click on German" (main author), which z. Z. (2010), which is most widely used in Chinese universities and colleges, was rated “Textbook in the 10th and 11th Five-Year Plan of the Country” in 2001 and 2006, and in 2007 was awarded the 1st Prize of Shanghai City Textbooks. The teaching subject “University German” at Tongji University, headed by Zhu Jianhua, was rated as a teaching subject of excellence in the city of Shanghai in 2004 and in 2007 by the Ministry of Education as a teaching subject of excellence at the state level (Chinese “国家 精品 课程”). The subject of German studies at Tongji University was approved in 2007 by the Ministry of Education as a “special state funding subject” (Chinese “国家 特色 专业 建设 点”). In 2008, Zhu Jianhua was awarded the title of Renowned Professor of the City of Shanghai (Chinese "上海市 教学 名师").

Representative publications:

  1. Considerations for setting up a center for German teaching at a very advanced level . In: Educational Research of Tongji University 1/1993
  2. Situations and perspectives of the study-accompanying GFL lessons in the PR China . In: German as a technical and foreign language in East Asia . Julius Groos Verlag, Heidelberg 1996
  3. Curriculum for German as a second foreign language at colleges and universities in China . (Co-author) Verlag für Hochschulwesen, 1997
  4. University German - listening comprehension . (Lead author) Higher Education Publishing House, Beijing 2001
  5. German as a Foreign Language and German Studies in China - A Development in Phases . (2nd author) In: Yearbook for International German Studies . Volume XXXV - Issue 2. I, Frankfurt 2003
  6. Development of textbooks for German as an application subject in China - using the example of “Click on German” . In: Hans Werner Hess (Ed.): Dicatic reflections . Stauffenberg Verlag, Tübingen, 2004.
  7. Click on German . Volumes 1–4 (main author) Publishing House for Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Beijing 2001–2005
  8. New orientations of German as an application subject in China . In: New contributions to German studies . Volume 6 / Issue 2, 2007, iudicium Verlag, pp. 91-102.
  9. Development from German as an application subject in China since 2000 . In: Fan Jieping, Li Yuan (Ed.): German as a Foreign Language from an International Perspective - Newer Trends and Tendencies . iudicium, Munich 2009, pp. 426-433.
  10. Studies on the development of didactics and methodology for university German, from 1949 to 2009 . Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2009, pp. 628-654.

III. Intercultural communication German-Chinese

Since the 1990s, Zhu Jianhua has been increasingly concerned with studies on interculturality in German studies in China, especially in technical language linguistics and in the didactics and methodology of German as a foreign language . In particular, the dependency of the specialist languages ​​on the specialist cultures from a pragmatic and cultural point of view, the development of youth languages in China and Germany and the sustainable promotion of intercultural competence for Chinese German learners are discussed.

Representative publications:

  1. A symbol of cultural exchange . In: Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel 60, July 26, 1996
  2. Work on intercultural communication Chinese-German . (Editor) Shanghai Tongji University Publishing House, 2000.
  3. German Linguistics in China . In: Journal for Literary Studies and Linguistics (LiLi), 2002 (127) Metzler Verlag
  4. Young people's language expressions from a contrasting perspective German-Chinese . In Eva Neuland (ed.): Youth language - mirror of our time . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2003
  5. Desires in a contrasting perspective: German-Chinese (2nd author). In: Tongji University Journal Social Science Section, 1/2004
  6. From German linguistics to intercultural linguistics . In: J. Zhu, HR Fluck, R.Hoberg (Hrsg.): Intercultural Communication German-Chinese . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2006
  7. U. Ammon, R. Reinbothe, J. Zhu (Hrsg.): The German language in China - history, present, future perspectives . iudicium, Munich 2007
  8. Recent work on intercultural communication (ed.). Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing House, Beijing 2007
  9. E. Neuland, Kwang-Sook Lie, Manabu Watanabe, Zhu Jianhua: Youth languages ​​between universality and culture-specific . In: E. Neuland (Ed.): Youth languages: multilingual-contrastive-intercultural . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 211–232.

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Zhu is the family name here, Jianhua is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Zhu, Jianhua
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 朱建华 (Chinese); Zhū, Jiànhuá
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese German studies specialist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanghai