Susanne Oberholzer- Doctor of Philosophy
- University of Bern
Susanne Oberholzer
- Doctor of Philosophy
- University of Bern
Associated researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Society (Univ. Bern)&lecturer at University of Zurich
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Introduction
I am a Germanist linguist with a background in Romances languages as well as in Northern Germanic languages. My main research interests are variationist linguistics and sociolinguistics with a focus on variety and language contact as well as multilingualism.
http://www.susanneoberholzer.ch
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Current institution
Additional affiliations
February 2025 - present
April 2018 - October 2024
July 2023 - present
Education
January 2008 - September 2015
October 2000 - November 2007
Field of study
- Italienische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Deutsche Linguistik, Neuere nordische Philologie
Publications
Publications (20)
The relation between Swiss German dialects and Standard German has been subject to public and scholarly debates for over 100 years. Among the most frequently discussed points are the appropriateness of spoken Standard German in different contexts and the attitudes of Swiss people towards the two varieties. This paper summarises the results of a com...
Im Beitrag wird eine theoriegeleitete Weiterentwicklung des Begriffs Integrierte Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik (IMD) vorgestellt, deren zentrale Neuerung die Formulierung von Gestaltungsfeldern ist. Mit dem Begriff «Gestaltungsfeld» soll der Dynamik und den konstruktivistischen Handlungen beim Aufbau schulischer mehrsprachiger Kompetenzen Rechnung getr...
Language Variation - European Perspectives VI showcases a selection of papers from the 8th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe which was held in Leipzig in 2015. The volume includes plenaries by Miriam Meyerhoff and Steffen Klaere (“The large and the small of it: Big issues with smaller samples in the study of language variatio...
Oberholzer, Susanne / Stöckle, Philipp / Ahlers, Timo / Riccabona, Michael (2017): Einleitung: Aktuelle Entwicklungen der Sprachvariationsforschung. In: AHLERS, Timo / OBERHOLZER, Susanne / RICCABONA, Michael / STOECKLE, Philipp (Eds.): Deutsche Dialekte in Europa: Perspektiven auf Variation, Wandel und Übergänge. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag (= K...
Der vorliegende Band bündelt aktuelle Forschungen zu deutschen Dialekten in Europa in Deutschland, Italien (Südtirol), Österreich und der Schweiz. Die Beiträge illustrieren inhaltliche und methodische Neuerungen der Dialektologie, wobei der Fokus der meisten Arbeiten auf eigenen empirischen Forschungen liegt. Einen inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt bilden h...
Samnaun has been described as the only Bavarian-speaking municipality in Alemannic-speaking Switzerland on the basis of a study done in 1924. Hints in the literature about the presence of other varieties for everyday communication – an intermediate variety on the dialect-standard-axis as well as an Alemannic dialect – have not resulted in more rece...
Early Medieval Period around the Lake of Constance.
