Sauer, Verena

“My research focuses intensively on different varieties of German and the connection between language and identity. The dialect we speak can add new facets to our identity. I want to explore this awareness of our language and its effect on individuals together with my students.”

• Language contact/minority languages/multilingualism (focus: Texas German/Low German)
• Language history (focus: Early New High German)
• Variation linguistics (focus: dialectology/perceptual dialectology)
• Gender linguistics (focus: gender-sensitive communication)
• Discourse linguistics (focus: (historical) language attitude discourse)
• Cognitive linguistics (focus: frame semantics)

• 10/2010-09/2015: Student assistant and research assistant at the Chair of Education with a focus on primary school education, the Center for Teacher Education, School and Vocational Education Research (ZLSB), the Institute for Vocational Education, and the Chair of German Linguistics and Language History at TU Dresden
• 10/2015-10/2016: Research assistant at the Chair of German Linguistics and Language History at TU Dresden (under Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Jakob)
• 10/2016-3/2018: Research assistant at the Chair of German Linguistics at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (under Prof. Dr. Markus Hundt)
• 02/2018: Doctorate in German Linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (summa cum laude)
• 04/2018-09/2022: Research assistant (postdoc) at the Chair of German Linguistics at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (under Prof. Dr. Markus Hundt)
• 04/2021-09/2021: Research assistant (postdoc) at the Chair of German Linguistics at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (under Prof. Alexander Ziem)
• 10/2022-09/2023: Visiting Associate Professor (Feodor Lynen Fellowship) at the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (with Prof. Hans C. Boas)
• 12/2022: Habilitation in German Linguistics at the Faculty of Philosophy at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• 10/2023-08/2024: Acting Professor of German Linguistics at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
• Since September 2024: Professor of German Linguistics (Institute of German Studies) at the University of Vienna