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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Language History:
Language Norms and Mentalities. The History of Language Awareness in Germany from 1766 to 1785"
>> funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG)
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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) |
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
1968 in Europe. A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77
Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000) (Studia Linguistica Germanica)
1968. Ein Handbuch zur Kultur und Mediengeschichte Herausgegeben von Martin
Klimke und Joachim Scharloth. Stuttgart: Metzler 2007.
Der Zürcher Sommer 1968. Zwischen Krawall, Utopie und Bürgersinn