Joachim Scharloth

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4/2010 - present Professor Dokkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
12/2009 Appointed Full Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Würzburg, Germany (rejected)
10/2009 - 3/2010 Visiting Professor University of Zurich, Switzerland
4/2008 - 3/2009 Visiting Professor University of Freiburg, Germany
5/2008 Habilitation in German Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Title of Thesis: "1968. Eine Kommunikationsgeschichte" / "1968. A History of the German Student Movement from a Linguistic Perspective"
5/2008 Laboratory for Computer Based Meaning Research (semtracks) founded by me and Noah Bubenhofer
10/2006 - 4/2007 Research Fellowship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Waseda-University, Tokyo, SILS
9/2005 ERASMUS Lecturer University of Linkoeping, Sweden
2003 - 2005 Temporary Lecturer Zurich College of Education, Switzerland, Teaching Courses on Grammar and Sociolinguistics
10/2002 - 9/2009 Assistant Professor Department of German, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2001 Temporary Lecturer University of Mannheim, Germany, Teaching Courses on Language Change
4/2002 PhD in German Studies University of Heidelberg, Title of Thesis: "Sprachnormen und Mentalitäten. Sprachbewusstseinsgeschichte in Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1766 bis 1785" / "Language Norms and Mentalities: Language Awareness in Germany between 1766 and 1785"
2000 - 2002 Part Time Teacher of German as a Foreign Language and German Culture International Office, University of Mannheim, and International Summer School of German Language and Culture of the International Office, University of Heidelberg, Germany
8/1998 - 8/2001 Research Fellow at the Graduate School "Dynamics of Non-Standard Varieties" of the German Science Foundation at the University of Heidelberg and Mannheim
1998 Master of Arts at the University of Heidelberg
Title of M.A.-Thesis "Kunst der Geschichte und Romanpoetik in der deutschen Aufklärung" / "Ars Historica and Poetics of the Novel in the German Enlightment"
1992 - 1998 Studies in German Literatur and Linguistics, Philosophy and Politics at the Universities of Mainz and Heidelberg
1991 - 1992 Alternative Service to Military Service St.-Vincenz-Hospital, Hanau, Germany

Current Research

U.S. Presidential Campaigns '08: A Semantic Matrix Analysis

SEMTRACKS Political Tracker provides regular analyses of the campaign speeches by the U.S. presidential candidates in 2008, John McCain and Barack Obama.
>> funded by the 'Innovationsfonds FRONTIER' at the University of Heidelberg
>> further information


Protest Research:
European Protest Movements since the Cold War: The Rise of a Transnational Civil Society and the Transformation of the Public Sphere
>> funded by the European Union, FP6
>> further information


Computational Linguistics:
Tracking Meaning on the Surface: A Data-Driven Approach to Semantic Imprints of Texts
>> funded by the 'Innovationsfonds FRONTIER' at the University of Heidelberg
>> further information


Corpus Linguistics:
Corpora for Social Movement Research (cosmov): Online Platform with Linguistic Corpora of Social Movements in Germany and Switzerland
>> funded by the E-Learning-Commission of the University of Zurich
>> further information

Selected Publications

>> Authored Books

2005: Sprachnormen und Mentalitäten. Sprachbewusstseinsgeschichte in Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1766 und 1785. Tübingen: Niemeyer. (RGL 255)

2008: 1968. Eine Kommunikationsgeschichte. (in preparation)


>> Edited Books

Klimke, Martin / Joachim Scharloth (eds.) (2008): 1968 in Europe. A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77. With an Afterword by Tom Hayden. New York, London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Linke, Angelika / Joachim Scharloth (Hrsg.) (2008): Der Zürcher Sommer '68. Eine Kommunikationsgeschichte. Zürich: NZZ Libro.

Klimke, Martin / Joachim Scharloth (Hrsg.) (2007): 1968. Ein Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte der Studentenbewegung. Stuttgart: Metzler. / 2nd Edition: Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Schriftenreihe Bd. 697, 2008.

Elspaß, Stephan / Nils Langer / Joachim Scharloth / Wim Vandenbussche (eds.) (2007): Germanic Language Histories 'from Below'. Linguistic Variation in the Germanic Languages from 1700 to 2000. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter.

Deminger, Szilvia / Thorsten Fögen / Joachim Scharloth / Simone Zwickl (Hrsg.) (2000): Einstellungsforschung in der Soziolinguistik und Nachbardisziplinen. Studies in Language Attitudes. Frankfurt am Main u.a. (= Variolingua 10)


>> Publication Series

"Protest, Culture and Society", Berghahn Books, New York/Oxford. Edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth.
>> further information


>> Forthcoming

Gilles, Peter / Joachim Scharloth / Evelyn Ziegler (Hrsg.) (2008): Empirische Evidenzen und theoretische Passungen sprachlicher Variation. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang. (in print)

Klimke, Martin / Jacco Pekelder / Joachim Scharloth (eds.) (2009): Between Prague Spring and French May 1968. Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-80. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books. (in print)

Fahlenbrach, Kathrin / Martin Klimke / Joachim Scharloth (2009): The 'Establishment' Responds: Power and Protest During and After the Cold War. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books. (in prep.)


for a full list of publications see here

Past Research

Interactional Linguistics:
Ritualized Communication in Contact: The Social Construction of Reality in the Performativity of Greetings in German-Japanese Encounters (with Saburo Okamura)
>> funded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science


Historical Pragmatics:
Verbal Interaction in the German Antiauthoritarian Movement of the Late 1960s (Habilitation)
>> further information (in German)


Computational Philology:
The Zurich Summer of 1968 - Digital Edition of Primary Sources of the Zurich Antiauthoritarian Movement
>> funded by the Anniversary Fund of the University of Zurich
>> further information (in German)


Sociolinguistics:
Attitudes toward Swiss Variants of Standard German among the Swiss German Speech Community
>> further information (in German)


Language History:
Language Norms and Mentalities. The History of Language Awareness in Germany from 1766 to 1785"
>> funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG)
>> further information (in German)

Conference Organization

3/2009 International Conference "1968 in Japan, Germany and the USA. Political Protest and Cultural Change", Japanese-German Center Berlin (together with Yoshie Mitobe, Martin Klimke and Laura Wong)
11/2008 International Conference "The Revolution will not be televised"? Media and Protest Movements after 1945, Volda/Norway (together with Rolf Werenskjold, Erling Sivertsen, Martin Klimke, Kathrin Fahlenbrach)
8/2008 Summer School: "Confronting Cold War Conformity: Peace and Protest Cultures in Europe, 1945-1989", Charles University, Prague (together with Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Martin Klimke)
5/2008 "1968 als sprachgeschichtliche Zäsur?", Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (together with Heidrun Kämper and Martin Wengeler)
11/2007 International Conference "The 'Establishment' Responds: The Institutional and Social Impact of Protest Movements During and After the Cold War", Heidelberg Center for American Studies (together with Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Martin Klimke)
3/2007 International Conference "Designing a New Life: Aesthetics and Lifestyles of Political and Social Protest", University of Zurich, Switzerland (together with Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Martin Klimke)
11/2006 International Conference "Tracing Protest Movements: Perspectives from Sociology, Political Sciences, and Media Studies", University of Halle, Germany (together with Kathrin Fahlenbrach and Martin Klimke)
10/2006 International Conference "Variatio Delectat - Theory and Empirical Evidence of Linguistic Varieties", University of Heidelberg, Germany (together with Peter Gilles and Evelyn Ziegler)
8/2006 3rd Conference of the "Interdisciplinary Young Scholars Forum Protest Movements" on "Between the 'Prague Spring' and the 'French May': Transnational Exchange and National Recontextualization of Protest Cultures in 1960/70s Europe", Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Germany (together with Martin Klimke)
7/2006 Workshop "Innovative approaches to the history of language planning and language policy in Europe" at Sociolinguistics Symposium 16. Limerick, Ireland
4/2005 International Conference "Language History from Below - Linguistic Variation in the Germanic Languages from 1700-2000", University of Bristol, England (with Stephan Elspaž, Nils Langer, Wim Vandenbussche)
2/2005 2nd Conference of the "Interdisciplinary Young Scholars Forum Protest Movements" on "Cultural and Media Aspects of the 1968 Student Movement", University of Zurich, German Department (with Martin Klimke)
7/2004 1st Conference of the "Interdisciplinary Young Scholars Forum Protest Movements" on "Between Communicative and Cultural Memory: The Student Movement of 1968", University of Heidelberg / Heidelberg Center for American Studies (together with Martin Klimke)
7/2002 Workshop "Sociolinguistics and the Ethnography of Communication" (Graduate School "Dynamics of Non-Standard Varieties", Heidelberg)
5/2000 Workshop "Sociolinguistics and Concepts of Social Inequality" (Graduate School "Dynamics of Non-Standard Varieties", Heidelberg)
11/1999 Workshop "Linguistic Discourse Analysis" (International Science Forum Heidelberg)
4/1999 International Conference "Studies in Attitudes in Sociolinguistics and its Neighbouring Disciplines" (International Science Forum Heidelberg)

Teaching Material

2006/2007

>> Developer of an e-learning-platform for undergraduate courses in German synchronic linguistics at the German Department, funded by the Initiative Interactive Learning (together with Noah Bubenhofer)
- funded by the Initiative Interactive Learning and the E-Learning Center of the University of Zurich


2004/2005

>> Developer of problem-based-learning units for the undergraduate courses in Historical Linguistics, designer of an e-learning platform for the "Introduction to Historical Linguistics"
- funded by the Initiative Interactive Learning and the E-Learning Center of the University of Zurich

Recent Publications

1968 in Europe. A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77
Herausgegeben von Martin Klimke und Joachim Scharloth. New York/London: Palgrave.
- Table of Contents
- Foreword

1968 saw protest movements in Prague, Paris, Berlin, Rome and many other places across Europe, and today stands as the defining year in a tumultuous period for the continent. This groundbreaking book serves as a concise reference on the intellectual avant-gardes, counter-cultures and protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s both in Western and Eastern Europe. It traces the history of the various protest movements and the plethora of national experiences with respect to domestic and transnational cultures of dissent, the transnational aspects of these movements, and the common narratives and cultures of memory surrounding them.
Accompanied by Online Teaching and Research Guide at: www.1968ineurope.com



Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000) (Studia Linguistica Germanica)
Ed. by Stephan Elspaß, Nils Langer, Joachim Scharloth, Wim Vandenbussche



Focussing on the historical sociolinguistics of 'big' and 'small' Germanic languages, the present volume challenges the traditional teleological view 'from above' in language historiography. The 29 contributors present some alternative histories of 8 Germanic languages and language varieties in the past 300 years. Topics range from language variation and change to language contact and choice in multilin-gual environments, seen against the background of standardization processes and, in particular, from the viewpoint of larger sections of the language populations - not only the 'selected few'.



1968. Ein Handbuch zur Kultur und Mediengeschichte Herausgegeben von Martin Klimke und Joachim Scharloth. Stuttgart: Metzler 2007.
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Vorwort


Die 68er polarisieren noch heute: Politisch gescheitert, erfolgreich in der Entwicklung neuer Lebensstile? Dabei gingen Kulturrevolution und Medienevolution Hand in Hand. Presse, Rundfunk und Fernsehen stilisierten Rudi Dutschke, die Kommune I, Che Guevara oder Mao neben den Rolling Stones oder Jimi Hendrix zu Ikonen einer jugendlichen Protestkultur. War die 68-Bewegung mehr als die Inszenierung von Ereignissen im Medienformat? Entlang der Stichworte Happening, Sit-in, Diskussionsfieber, Protestinszenierung u. a. vermittelt das Handbuch einen neuen Blick auf eine politische Strömung, die die Jahrzehnte danach entscheidend verändert und geprägt hat.



Der Zürcher Sommer 1968. Zwischen Krawall, Utopie und Bürgersinn
Herausgegeben von Angelika Linke und Joachim Scharloth. Zürich: NZZ Libro.

Der Zürcher Sommer 1968: Das waren Globuskrawall und Zürcher Manifest, Jimi Hendrix und Karl Marx, der Traum von einer globalen Revolte und der ganz konkrete Wunsch nach einem autonomen Jugendzentrum. Das reich bebilderte Buch dokumentiert die phantasievollen Protestformen, gibt Einblick in die alternativen Lebensentwürfe der Akteure und fragt nach den Ursachen der gewalttätigen Ausschreitungen. In einer dem Buch beigegebenen umfassenden digitalen Edition von Flug blättern, Wandzeitungen, Fotografien und Polizeiakten wird die ungeheure Dynamik ebenso wie die Ästhetik des Protests authentisch sichtbar. Die Zürcher Ereignisse zeigen sich darin nicht nur als Nachbeben einer europäischen Erschütterung mit Epizentren in Berlin, Paris und Prag, sondern ebenso in ihrer Bedeutung für die politische Zeitgeschichte der Schweiz.