"Verbal Interaction in the German Antiauthoritarian Movement of the Late 1960s" (Habilitation)
The study on historical pragmatics (1) explores the aspect of rituality and anti-rituality in communication as a force for the dynamics of the movement, (2) reconstructs different styles of communication and (3) traces the changes of communicative genres from the 1950s to the 1980s in order to settle the question, whether the student movement has had a broad effect on the German culture.

"European Protest Movements since the Cold War: The Rise of a (Trans-)national Civil Society and the Transformation of the Public Sphere" (Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses)
The project aims at analyzing the development and various dimensions of social, political and cultural dissent in Europe after the Second World War, emphasizing their transnational orientations an historical consequences that are still visible today. more

"cosmov" - Corpora for Social Movement Research
Together with my colleague Noah Bubenhofer I am currently building an online platform with linguistic corpora of social movements in Germany and Switzerland. The "SwissMov"-Corpus contains brochures, leaflets, pamphlets, circulars, flyers and newspaper articles on the Zurich antiauthoritarian movement of 1968. The "GerMov"-Corpus consists of more than 500 leaflets and more than 20 audio tape protocols of the German student movement of the late 1960s. All texts are annotated according to the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), and will be available online through a XAIRA-based query tool by March 2008.

"The Zurich Summer of 1968" - Edition of Primary Sources of the Zurich Antiauthoritarian Movement 1968
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the worldwide protest movement of 1968, we will be publishing the first edition of primary sources of protest events in Switzerland: the Zurich antiauthoritarian revolt. more

"Ritualized Communication in Contact: The Social Construction of Reality in the Performativity of Greetings in German-Japanese Encounters" (JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Waseda-University, Tokyo, Japan)
Because greeting rituals are establishing social relations between people they are a focal point of the social construction of societal reality. Changes in greeting rituals entail changes to the social order. Usually, the change of rituals that are accessory to everyday life can only be observed in the long run. However, in situations of cultural contact people have to negotiate the forms of their everyday interaction. The emergence of new or hybrid rituals and together with them the emergence of new lifeworld categories and roles can be observed.

Postdoctoral Research Project: "Attitudes toward Swiss Variants of Standard German among the Swiss German Speech Community"
This empirical sociolinguistic study explored the status of the variants of a non-dominating center of the German language. It turned out, that Swiss speakers give preference to the German variants of Standard German and consider Swiss variants as bad or even wrong Standard German. The outcome of the study questions the common ground of the concept of "national varieties".

Ph.D. Thesis: "Language Norms and Mentalities. The History of Language Awareness in Germany from 1766 to 1785"
In my Ph.D. thesis I developed a model of the genesis of language awareness that allowed to interpret the language-norm discourse as a debate on the cultural constitution of the German nation. The debate on the norms of Standard German in the 18th century was not based on linguistic arguments alone. It was rather structured by underlying argumentative patterns of the cultural criticism of the time.

M.A. Thesis: "Ars Historica: Writing History and the Poetics of the Novel in 18th Century Germany"
In my M.A. thesis I explored the complex affinities between the theories of history writing and the poetics of the novel by focusing on the discourses on "Plan" (plan) and "Wahrscheinlichkeit" (probability). It turned out, that poetics was greatly influenced by the scientification process of history, a reason for the abandonment of rhetoric categories in the discourse on the novel in the late 18th century.

Major Publications:

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

Klimke, Martin / Joachim Scharloth (eds.) (2008): 1968 in Europe. A Handbook on National Perspectives and Transnational Dimensions of 1960/70s Protest Movements. (in print)

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

Klimke, Martin / Jacco Pekelder / Joachim Scharloth (eds.) (2008): Between the Prague Spring and the French May 1968. Transnational Exchange and National Recontextualization of Protest Cultures. (in prep.)

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 (eds.) (2007): 1968. Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte der Studentenbewegung. Stuttgart: Metzler.

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

Scharloth, Joachim (2008): Performanz als Modus des Sprechens und Interaktionsmodalität. Zur linguistischen Fundierung eines kulturwissenschaftlichen Konzeptes. In: Helmuth Feilke, Angelika Linke (Hrsg.): Oberflîche und Performanz. (in Druck)

Scharloth, Joachim (2007): 1968 und die Unordnung in der Sprache. Kommunikationsstrukturelle und sozialstilistische Untersuchungen. In: Steffen Pappert (Hrsg.): Die (Un)Ordnung des Diskurses. Leipzig. S. 11-36.

Scharloth, Joachim (2007): Performanz als Kategorie einer kulturanalytischen Linguistik. In: Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie 126. (in print)

Scharloth, Joachim (2007): Die Sprache der Revolte. Linke Wörter und avantgardistische Kommunikationsstile. In: Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth (Hrsg.): 1968. Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte der Studentenbewegung. S. 223-234.

Scharloth, Joachim (2007): Ritualkritik und Rituale des Protest. Die Entdeckung des Performativen in der Studentenbewegung der 1960er Jahre. In: Martin Klimke, Joachim Scharloth (Hrsg.): 1968. Handbuch zur Kultur- und Mediengeschichte der Studentenbewegung. S. 75-87.

Scharloth, Joachim (2005): Asymmetrische Plurizentrizität und Sprachbewusstsein. Einstellungen der Deutschschweizer zum Standarddeutschen. In: Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik 33.2, S. 236-267.

Scharloth, Joachim (2005): Pragmatische Geschichte(n). Theorie der Sprachgeschichte und Erzählstrategien bei Adelung und dem soziopragmatischen Paradigma. In: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft 15, S. 31-52.

Scharloth, Joachim (2005): Deutsche Sprache, deutsche Sitten. Die Sprachkonzeption von J.M.R. Lenz im Kontext der Sprachnormendebatte des 18. Jahrhunderts. In: Lenz-Jahrbuch. Sturm und Drang Studien. Bd. 12, 2002/03, S. 89-118.

Scharloth, Joachim (2005): The Revolutionary Argumentative Pattern in Puristic Discourse: The Swabian dialect in the debate about the standardization of German in the 18th century. In: Nils Langer, Winifred Davies (eds.): Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter. S. 86-96.

Scharloth, Joachim (2005): Die Semantik der Kulturen. Diskurssemantische Grundfiguren als Kategorien einer linguistischen Kulturanalyse. In: Dietrich Busse, Thomas Niehr, Martin Wengeler (Hrsg.): Brisante Semantik. Neuere Konzepte und Forschungsergebnisse einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Linguistik. Tübingen: Niemeyer. S. 119-135. (= RGL 259).

Scharloth, Joachim (2002): Evidenz und Wahrscheinlichkeit: Wahlverwandtschaften zwischen Romanpoetik und Historik im 18. Jahrhundert. In: Daniel Fulda, Silvia Serena Tschopp (Hrsg.): Literatur und Geschichte. Ein Kompendium zu ihrem Verhältnis von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart. Berlin, New York. S. 247-275.

Bluhm, Claudia/Dirk Deissler/Joachim Scharloth/Anja Stukenbrock (2000): Linguistische Diskursanalyse: Überblick, Probleme, Perspektiven. In: Sprache und Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 88, S. 3-19.


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