Joachim Scharloth
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2020 - 2023 | Guest Professor Heidelberg University, Department of German |
10/2017 - present | Full Professor of German Studies Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan |
10/2016 | Teaching Award of University of Technology Dresden for the interdisciplinary course "Risk Narratives" (together with Gudrun Loster-Schneider, Lars Koch, Thomas Günther, Stefan Horlacher, Jochen Schanze, Thomas Henle, and project leader Marina Münkler) |
10/2014 | Visiting Professor University of Kentucky, Lexington, Department of Modern and Classical Languages |
10/2012 - 9/2017 | Full Professor of Applied Linguistics TU Dresden, Germany |
4/2010 - 9/2012 | Associate Professor of German Studies 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
Social Movements:
Strategic Language Use and Action Repertoire of the Climate Movement: Preparing for Radical Action
Language of the German Far Right:
Function of Invective Language and Hate Speech for the Building of Communities and in Struggles for Hegemony in ther German New Right
>> Book: Hässliche Wörter / Hateful Words (2021)
Corpus Linguistics, Second Language Education:
"Modelling Linguistic Practices for Learners of German: A Data-driven Approach to Speech Act Sets and Speech Act Sequences"
>> funded by JSPS (Kakenhi)
Corpus Linguistics:
"The evolution of genres between standardization and variation: The case of picture post cards. Text and corpus driven studies of patterns of private everyday and tele communication" (Collaborative Research Project with Heiko Hausendorf & Noah Bubenhofer)
>> funded by DFG and SNF
Urban Planning:
"U_CODE: Urban Collective Design Environment - A Tool for Opinion Mining in Social Networks"
>> funded by the EU, Horizon2020, "ICT 19 Technologies for Creative Industries, Social Media, and Convergence"
Applied Linguistics + Corpus Linguistics
"Basic German Vocabulary: Empirical Foundations of the Cognitive Representation of Vocabulary"
>> funded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences (Collaborative Research Project with Waseda University)
>> further information
Applied Linguistics + Computational Linguistics
"Information Warfare: Clandestine Communication in Social Networks"
>> Talk in German, with English translation
Selected Publications
>> Authored Books
2021: Hässliche Wörter. Hatespeech als Prinzip der neuen Rechten. Heidelberg: Metzler.
2011: 1968. Eine Kommunikationsgeschichte. Paderborn: Fink.
2005: Sprachnormen und Mentalitäten. Sprachbewusstseinsgeschichte in Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1766 und 1785. Tübingen: Niemeyer. (RGL 255)
>> Edited Books
Hausendorf, Heiko / Joachim Scharloth / Kyoko Sugisaki / Noah Bubenhofer (Hrsg.) (2023): Ansichten zur Ansichtskarte. Ein populäres Medium postalischer Fernkommunikation im Schnittpunkt von Textlinguistik, Korpuspragmatik und Kulturanalyse. Bielefeld: Transcript.
Schröter, Juliane / Susanne Tienken / Yvonne Ilg / Joachim Scharloth / Noah Bubenhofer (2019): Linguistische Kulturanalyse. Berlin, New York: deGruyter. (= Reihe Germanistische Linguistik, Band 314)
Charlotte Schubert / Paul Molitor / Jörg Ritter / Joachim Scharloth / Kurt Sier (Hrsg.) (2019): Platon Digital: Tradition und Rezeption. Digital Classics Books 3. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.451)
Klinker, Fabian / Joachim Scharloth / Joanna Szczęk (Hrsg.) (2018): Sprachliche Gewalt. Formen und Effekte von Hassrede, Pejorisierung und verbaler Aggression. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. (in Druck)
Scharloth, Joachim (Hrsg.) (2017): Hasrrede / Hate Speech. Sondernummer der Zeitschrift "Aptum". Heft 02/2017. Hempen Verlag.
Fahlenbrach, Kathrin / Martin Klimke / Joachim Scharloth (eds.) (2016): Protest Cultures. A Companion. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books. (in print)
Bubenhofer, Noah / Joachim Scharloth (Hrsg.) (2015): Maschinelle Textanalyse. Sonderheft der Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik. Heft 43(1). Berlin & New York: de Gruyter.
Kämper, Heidrun / Joachim Scharloth / Martin Wengeler (Hrsg.) (2012): 1968. Eine sprachwissenschaftliche Zwischenbilanz. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter.
Fahlenbrach, Kathrin / Martin Klimke / Joachim Scharloth / Laura Wong (eds.) (2012): The Establishment Responds: Power, Politics, and Protest Since 1945. New York, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Okamura, Saburo / Willi Lange / Joachim Scharloth (2012): Grundwortschatz Deutsch: Lexikografische und fremdsprachendidaktische Perspektiven. JGG: Tokyo. (= Studienreihe der Japanischen Gesellschaft fuer Germantistik 088) download
Klimke, Martin / Jacco Pekelder / Joachim Scharloth (eds.) (2011): Between Prague Spring and French May 1968. Opposition and Revolt in Europe, 1960-80. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books.
Gilles, Peter / Joachim Scharloth / Evelyn Ziegler (Hrsg.) (2010): Variatio delectat. Empirische Evidenzen und theoretische Passungen sprachlicher Variation. Klaus J. Mattheier zum 65. Geburtstag. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang.
Linke, Angelika / Joachim Scharloth (Hrsg.) (2008): Der Zürcher Sommer 1968. Zwischen Krawall, Utopie und Bürgersinn. Zürich: NZZ Libro.
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.
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.
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.
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
for a full list of publications see here
Past Research
Corpus Linguistics / Second Language Eduacation:
"Korpusgeleitete Bestimmung eines Grund- und Aufbauwortschatzes für Deutschlerner" (2011-2014) and
"Wortschatzerwerb und Sprachgebrauch: Empirische Grundlagen für kognitive Erwerbsmodelle des Grundwortschatzes Deutsch" (2015-2018)
>> funded by JSPS
>> 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
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
28.11-30.11.2022 | "Trends in der computergestützten Textanalyse: Disziplinarität und Interdisziplinarität methodengetriebener Forschung", Universität Heidelberg (mit Katharina Jacob, Michael Bender, Lukas Bettag und Jöran Landschoff) |
3.2-4.2.2020 | "Insults, Hate Speech, and Denigration: Invective Communication and the Dynamization of Social Order", Université libre de Bruxelles / Waseda University (with Steven Trenson, Xavier Mellet) |
1.4-2.4.2019 | "Invectivity: A New Paradigm in Cultural Studies? ", Waseda University (with Tien-Shi Chen, Arne Klawitter, Xavier Mellet and Steven Trenson) |
29.9.2013-5.10.2013 | "Digitization and its Impact on Society" (zusammen mit Noah Bubenhofer), Internationale Sommerschule, TU Dresden |
8.3.2012 | "Statistics, Corpora and Language Learning" (zusammen mit Saburo Okamura und Willi Lange), Internationaler Workshop, Waseda Universität Tokyo, Japan |
15.10.2011 | "Wortschatz in Wörterbüchern und Lehrwerken: Fremdsprachendidaktische und lexikographische Perspektiven" (zusammen mit Saburo Okamura und Willi Lange), Symposium im Rahmen der Herbstgakkai der Japanischen Gesellschaft für Germanistik, Universität Kanazawa, Japan |
18.-20.2. 2010 | "Arenas of Contestation" (together with Martin Klimke and Kathrin Fahlenbrach), Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg |
23.-26.6. 2009 | "Shaping Europe in a Globalized World? Protest Movements and the Rise of a Transnational Civil Society" (together with Roland Axtmann, Rolf Werenskjold, Erling Sivertsen, Martin Klimke, Kathrin Fahlenbrach) further information |
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 Elspaþ, 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