Most of us will have heard this already but just to let the rest of the
world know, here is the press release from the DAAD, announcing that our
very own Patrick Stevenson has won the all-too-deserved distinction of
winning the J&W Grimm Prize! Hoorah and Prosit! We are very proud but
hardly surprised!
nils.
Patrick Stevenson has been awarded the DAAD Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize
Bonn, 20 October 2009. This year's Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize of the
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) goes to the internationally
renowned British Germanist Professor Patrick Stevenson. The prize includes
¤10,000 and a four-week research visit to a German university. The DAAD?s
president, Professor Stefan Hormuth, will hand over the prize in Bonn on 3
November 2009, in the presence of the rector of the university of Bonn,
Professor Jürgen Fohrmann, and distinguished honorary guests. Patrick
Stevenson is the Professor of German and Linguistic Studies at the
University of Southampton and is its Head of Research in Modern Languages.
He is one of the most prominent and versatile German linguists throughout
the non-German-speaking regions of Europe.
He gained international recognition through the standard-setting
publication ?Variation in German: A Critical Approach to German
Sociolinguistics? (1990, German Edition 1998) which he co-authored with
Stephen Barbour. His book ?Language and German Disunity: A Sociolinguistic
History of East and West in Germany, 1945-2000? (2002) contains an
extensive and critical treatise of the linguistic aspects of the division
and unity of Germany. The main focus of his research is on the politics of
language in Germany and issues relating to the role of the German language
in preserving and promoting national and ethnic identities in
?post-national? Europe. Patrick Stevenson has acquired a high standing in
the British professional community and beyond. He has made valuable
contributions to profiling and networking German linguistic research in the
fields of international sociolinguistics and general linguistics.
The annual Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize of the DAAD is awarded to
non-German scientists, academics and researchers for their outstanding
contributions to German literature and language studies, German as a
foreign language, and German cultural studies. This year marks the 15th
anniversary of the prize, which is awarded to honour those who have made
particular contributions to international academic cooperation and cultural
understanding through their teaching and research activities outside
Germany.
Journalists are welcome to attend the prize ceremony on 3 November at
5:00 p.m. at the Bonn Universitätsclub; the prizewinner will be available
for interviews.
Contact: Friederike Schomaker, DAAD, Fachliche Lektorenbetreuung,
tel.: +49 228 / 882?650, e?mail: [log in to unmask]
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Dr Nils Langer
Reader in German Linguistics
School of Modern Languages
University of Bristol
Bristol, England
BS8 1TE
0044-(0)117-92 89841
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http://www.bris.ac.uk/german
weblinks to improve your life:
The Historical Sociolinguistics network:
http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison/
The Forum for Germanic Language Studies: www.fgls.ac.uk
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