Prof. Dr. Elmar Eggert               (Kiel University)

Two Linguistic Approaches to Social Threats: Etholinguistics and Discourse Traditions

The presentation will introduce two linguistic approaches that aim to analyse the linguistic-communicative depiction of media report on so called social threats.

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Biography

Elmar Eggert (born in 1970) started his maîtrise de lettres modernes in 1994 at the University Charles de Gaulle, Lille III in France. He completed his PhD in 2002 at the University François Rabelais in Tours. Between 2002 and 2012, he held scientific positions at the universities of Bochum, Frankfurt a.M., Heidelberg.

Since 2012 he has served as the Chair in Romance Linguistics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. His main research focus has been in the History of languages in the Middle Ages, languages for special purposes and translation studies as well as language policy. His Publications include Bisontins ou Besançonnais? A la recherche des règles pour la formation des gentilés pour une application au traitement automatique, Tübingen 2005; [ed.]: Scientia valescit. Zur Institutionalisierung von kulturellem Wissen in romanischem Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Munich  2009; [ed.]: Historische Sprachwissenschaft als philologische Kulturwissenschaft in der Romanistik, Göttingen 2015.