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Christoph Hare Svenstrup

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Christoph Hare Svenstrup (christophhare@gmail.com)

Office address

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Deutsches Seminar — Germanistische Linguistik, Belfortstraße 14 (Raum 210), 79098 Freiburg, Germany.

 

Home address

Dimmlerstraße 1a, 79117 Freiburg, Germany, +4917642556632

Field of interest

Sociolinguistics with a preference for language attitudes and perceptions concerning dialects and standard, language and identity, and youth language – working with both quantitative and qualitative approaches.

Education

Master in Danish (major) and Philosophy (minor) from the University of Copenhagen 2008.

Currently writing my Ph.D.-thesis at the University of Freiburg and the University of Copenhagen.

Work experience

(April 2009 - ) Ph.D.-student in sociolinguistics (language attitudes) at the Universities of Freiburg and Copenhagen.

(December 2007 - March 2008) Student assistant, coding and analysing interviews (sociolinguistic) for language attitudes.

Publications

(forthc.) Svenstrup, C. H., “Language attitudes and linguistic awareness among adolescents from the Stuttgart area” (forthcoming ph.d.-thesis).

(forthc.) Svenstrup, C. H., “Language attitudes in Southwest Germany”.

(2011) Stoeckle, P. & C. H. Svenstrup, “Language variation and (de-)standardisation processes in Germany”, in Linguistic Standards and Destandardisation in Europe (T. Kristiansen & N. Coupland – eds.), 83-90, Novus, Oslo.

(2010) Svenstrup, C. H., “Why does Vestjysk sound boorish and Københavnsk cool? – A language attitudes study among adolescents in the town of Holstebro in western Jutland” (Masters thesis), in Copenhagen Studies in Bilingualism vol. 57, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities.

(2009) Svenstrup, C. H. & J. M. Thøgersen, “On the discursive construction of "rigsdansk", "jysk", "københavnsk" and other varieties among adolescents in western Jutland”, in Language attitudes, Standardisation and language change, 181-210, Novus, Oslo.

Papers

“Linguistic awareness among adolescents in the Stuttgart area”, Conference: Sociolinguistic Symposium 19, Freie Universität Berlin (August 21st – 24th , 2012

“Wie untersucht man offene und verborgene Spracheinstellungen? – Eine Untersuchung unter Jugendlichen im Raum Stuttgart”,  Arbeitstagung (Workshop):  Deutsche Varietäten im Kontakt – Grenzen und Methoden, Free University of Bozen – Bolzano (November 17th – 19th, 2011).

“Do attitudes change language?”, Friends of Oklahoma Linguistics (FOOLS), Oklahoma State University, Stillwater (September 21st, 2011).

“Local vs. global identity? – adolescents’ attitudes to speakers from Reutlingen, Stuttgart & Berlin”, International Summer School – Four sociolinguistic tandems, University of Copenhagen (June 6th – 10th, 2011).

“Local vs. global identity – adolescents’ attitudes to speakers from Reutlingen, Stuttgart & Berlin”, Conference: Jugendsprache, University of Freiburg (March 31st – April 2nd, 2011).

“Dialect & Identity – what do you speak?”, Workshop w. Barbara Johnstone, University of Freiburg (March 15th, 2011).

“Attitudes to speakers from Stuttgart, Reutlingen and Berlin: the more standardised the better?”, Workshop: Symposium on Dialect Change, The LANCHART Centre, University of Copenhagen (September 27th, 2010).

“What drives language change?”, Workshop: Language change – what are the driving forces?, University of Freiburg (April 13th – 15th, 2010)

”What do they say about language? - Qualitative interviews as a supplement to quantitative language attitude studies”, Conference: ICLaVE #5, University of Copenhagen, (June 25th – 27th, 2009).

“Country report on Denmark” (with F. Gregersen), Workshop: The nature and role of language standardisation and standard languages in late modernity, Schæffergården, Copenhagen (February 19th – 21st, 2009).

Posters

“Language attitudes as a factor in language change? South-western German adolescents’ attitudes to speakers form Reutlingen, Stuttgart and Berlin”, Conference: ICLaVE #6, University of Freiburg (June 29th – July 1st, 2011).

“Language attitudes in the Schwäbisch speaking part of south western Germany”, Conference: Sociolinguistic Symposium 18, University of Southampton (September 1st – 4th, 2010).

Participant

NWAV 40, Georgetown University, Washington (October 27th – 30th, 2011)

Organised

Language change – what are the driving forces?, Workshop, University of Freiburg (April 13th – 15th, 2010).

Further

Two months as a visiting scholar with professor Dennis R. Preston, at Oklahoma State University (September 3rd – November 5th, 2011)