»If language is a tool of communication, it is a radically undirected one.«
Ingo H. Warnke doubts the value of language per se and asks who does exactly what with language where and when. And in which contexts and coinages this happens. And how language can be grasped and thought of as an event. Accordingly, he researches and teaches discourse linguistics, language in contradiction, German language in colonial and postcolonial contexts, and language in urban space. He is currently particularly interested in questions of a linguistics of listening.
In addition to working in the studio, as he says, he enjoys working in teams, especially in the field of Contradiction Studies. He is co-spokesperson of the U Bremen collaborative research platform Worlds of Contradiction, co-editor of the book series Discourse Patterns, Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, and Contradiction Studies, and chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg. Music always plays an important role in all of this, and be it, in writing. Not infrequently, he prefers to read philosophical rather than linguistic texts. Sometimes he wonders whether linguistics is really needed and what would happen if it were abolished tomorrow. Speaking and writing would certainly continue. Not least because language happens.
Ingo H. Warnke
CV
Education
Studies of German language and literature, music, and education/philosophy (1st state examination U Kassel)
PhD (1993): Wörterbuch zu Thomas Müntzers deutschen Schriften und Briefen [Dictionary of Thomas Müntzer's German Writings and Letters]
Habilitation (1998): Wege zur Kultursprache. Die Polyfunktionalisierung des Deutschen im juridischen Diskurs 1200–1800 [Paths to a Language of Culture. The Polyfunctionalization of German in Juridical Discourse 1200–1800]
University Activities
University of Bremen: of German Linguistics including Interdisciplinary Linguistics: 2010–
Center for the Study of Language and Society; University of Bern/CHE: 2009–2010
University of Göttingen: 2007–2009
University of Bayreuth: 2007
Bielefeld University: 2003–2004
Saarland University: 2000
University of Kassel: 1993–2006
Select International Research and Teaching Residences
Åbo Akademi, Turku/FIN (2018): Guest Lectureship
Tongji University Shanghai/CHN (2017): Visiting Professorship
Universität Bern/CHE (2014): Visiting Professorship
University of Warsaw/POL (2013): Erasmus Guest Lectureship
Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz/AUT (2010): Visiting Professorship
József Attila University, Szeged/HUN (2003ff.): Guest Lectureship
Harvard University, Cambridge/USA (2002): Visiting Research Fellow at the Harvard Law School
Washington, DC/USA (2001): Alexander von Humboldt-Fellow German-American Center for Visiting Scholars
Scientific Advisory Board, Series Editors, Editorial Boards
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Co-editor Diskursmuster – Discourse Patterns
Co-editor Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics
Co-editor Contradiction Studies
Advisory Board of the book series Sprache und Wissen [Language and Knowledge]
Advisory Board Journal for Discourse Studies (ZfD)
Advisory Board tekst i dyskurs – text and discourse
Advisory Board The Mouth – Critical Studies on Language, Culture and Society
ThemaTalkers | Inter-university linguistic network (U Bremen, U Wien & Åbo Akademi Turku)
Memberships
International Association for Germanic Studies
Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik [Society for Applied Linguistics]
Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik [Society for Intercultural German Studies]
Forschungsnetzwerk Sprache und Wissen [Research Network Language and Knowledge]
Team
Office
Katharina Biskup, Email: sek_warn@uni-bremen.de
German Linguistics / Interdisciplinary Linguistics
Lara Christin Herford, MA
Jonas Trochemowitz, MA
Lecturers
PD Dr. Barbara Aehnlich
Dr. Andreas Jäger
Dr. Anna Mattfeldt
Dr. Andreas Rothenhöfer
Student Assistants
Angelina Schellin
