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Prof. Dr. Helmuth Feilke

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Prof. Dr. Helmuth Feilke

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Contact

Department of German Studies

Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10 B
35394 Giessen
Tel: 0641/99-29100
Fax: 0641/99-29109

Short Biography

  • 2008 2011 Vice Dean of the Faculty "Language - Literature - Culture"
  • 2002 – 2005 Dean of the Faculty "Language - Literature - Culture"
  • Since 2001 Professor of German Linguistics and Didactics of German Language at Justus Liebig University Giessen
  • 1996 Habilitation in German Linguistics and Didactics of German Language, Professorial Dissertation: "Sprache als soziale Gestalt". Frankfurt a.M.: 1996
  • 1992 Ph.D. in "German Linguistics," Dissertation: "Common sense-Kompetenz". Frankfurt a.M. 1994
  • Studied German Studies, Social Science, and Philosophy at the University of Siegen
Main Research Interests

  • Theory of language and theory of competence
  • Text routines, idiomology, and phraseology
  • Acquisition of linguistic competences: vocabulary, grammar, and text (lexicalisation, grammaticalisation, text competences)
  • Language and media, learning tools
  • Literary competence: language and writing, writing system, acquisition of literary language, text type competence
  • Didactics of language and German classes