Education and professional experience:
-1988 Teaching and researching at the institute of
foreign languages at the University of Konstanz,
Germany
1988 Dissertation about German-American intercultural
conflicts and learner languages in argumentative
dialogues between students and teachers. Title:
Pros and cons in foreign languages (in German: Pro
und Kontra in der Fremdsprache)
1988-1991 Lecturer of the German Academic Exchange
Service in Caucasian Georgia (Tbilisi)
1996 Habilitation at the University of Vienna. Study: On
the pragmatics of conversational humor (in German:
Zur Pragmatik von konversationellem Humor)
2000 Professor at Fulda University of Applied Sciences
2001-2009 Professor for German language and didactics
at the University of Education, Freiburg, Germany
2003-2009 Research project about discourses of
explanation; cooperation of the Universities of
Education, Freiburg and Ludwigsburg, Germany
2009-now Professor for German linguistics and German
as a foreign language at the University of
Freiburg, Germany
Philologische Fakultät
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