Draft:Dirk Siepmann

Dirk Siepmann (born July 5, 1966, in Mülheim an der Ruhr) is a German linguist and language teaching specialist. He is a full professor of English as a second language at the University of Osnabrück.

Life

Siepmann studied Romance languages (French and Italian) and English at Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Durham from 1988 to 1994. From 1994 to 1996, he completed his teacher training for secondary education (Sekundarstufen I and II) at the Teacher Training Seminar in Essen, obtaining the Second State Examination for English and French. He then spent several years working as a teacher at Berufskolleg Borken. In 2003, he obtained his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dieter Wolff with an English-language thesis on "Discourse Markers across Languages." In the same year, he was assigned to full-time teaching duties as a university lecturer at the University of Siegen.[1] In 2006, he was appointed as a W2 professor at the University of Osnabrück, and in 2007, he became a W3 professor of English as a second language at the same institution.[2][3] He declined offers for professorships in French and French language education (2007) at the University of Wuppertal, in foreign language teaching (2007) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, and in English translation studies (2014) at Heidelberg University.[4] In 2009, he held a guest professorship at the University of Paris VII (Université Paris Diderot). Siepmann has been involved in leadership roles in two major research projects funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the French National Research Agency (ANR) (EMOLEX on the lexis of emotion in five European languages and PHRASEOROM on the phraseology of the novel). He has authored 20 books, as well as approximately 100 articles and reviews. His most notable works include the Wörterbuch Hochschule (Dictionary of Higher Education) and the textbook Writing in English, co-authored with Mike Hannay, Lachlan Mackenzie, and John D. Gallagher, which applies insights from linguistics to the teaching of academic writing. Since 2008, Siepmann has been a member of the Klett-Akademie für Fremdsprachendidaktik.[5] In addition, he has worked as a lecturer in English for Academic Purposes[6] and as a translation consultant. In 2023, he was nominated for the Mythopoeic Society's Mythopoeic Award for his work "Tolkien as a Literary Artist," co-authored with Thomas Kullmann.[7]

Research Interests

Siepmann has published in roughly equal measure in German, English, and French. His initial research interests revolved around translation studies and contrastive linguistics. He later focused on the nature and textual function of fixed and semi-fixed word combinations (discourse markers, collocations, idiomatic expressions), as well as other linguistic constructions. In recent years, he has explored new research areas, including the development of language proficiency tests and the application of construction grammar to foreign language teaching, as well as literary language (English, French, German), academic translation, and the diachrony of French. Together with Christoph Bürgel (University of Paderborn) and Sascha Diwersy (University of Montpellier), he compiled a corpus of contemporary French language containing approximately 300 million words, similar to the British National Corpus, called the Corpus de référence du français contemporain (Reference Corpus of Contemporary French).[8] Currently, he is working with Christoph Bürgel on a new corpus-based grammar of spoken and written French. In 2023, together with world veteran table tennis champion Dieter Lippelt, he published a trilingual dictionary (German-English-French) devoted to the language of table tennis and general sports language.[9]

Selected Publications

  • Übersetzungslehrbücher: Perspektiven für ihre Entwicklung (Translation Textbooks: Perspectives for their Development). Bochum: Brockmeyer, 1996. ISBN 978-3-8196-0446-1. Reviewed by Katharina Reiß (TextconText 1/1997: 73–75), Stefan Ettinger (Fremdsprachen und Hochschule 52/1998: 171–177), John D. Gallagher (Translatio 1/1999: 154–158), Wiebke Sievers (Info DAF 2/3/1998: 366–368).
  • Traduire La Presse. Entraînement au thème allemand (Translating the Press: Training in German Translation). Paris: Ellipses, 2002. ISBN 2-7298-0961-9.
  • Discourse Markers across Languages. A contrastive study of second-level discourse markers in native and non-native text with implications for general and pedagogic lexicography. New York: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 978-0-203-31526-2.
  • Writing in English: a Guide for Advanced Learners. Tübingen: Narr, 2011. 2nd edition. ISBN 978-3-8252-3124-8. (co-authored with John D. Gallagher, Mike Hannay, and Lachlan Mackenzie)
  • Grammatik des gesprochenen und geschriebenen Französisch (Grammar of Spoken and Written French). Volumes published: Volume 5 Prepositions (ISBN 1-73144-798-1; ISBN 978-1-73144-798-2), Volume 3 Adjectives.
  • A Grammar of Spoken and Written French. Volumes published: Volume 5 Prepositions. ISBN 1-73073-426-X, ISBN 978-1-73073-426-7.
  • Wörterbuch Hochschule. Forschung, Lehre und Management (Dictionary of Higher Education: Research, Teaching, and Management). 3rd edition. Bonn: Deutscher Hochschulverband, 2016. ISBN 978-3-944941-02-8.
  • German and English: Academic Usage and Academic Translation. London/New York: Routledge, 2020. ISBN 978-0367619022.

External Links

  • Literature by and about Dirk Siepmann in the German National Library catalogue
  • University page on Dirk Siepmann
  • Dirk Siepmann's website
  • Dirk Siepmann on academia.edu
  • Dirk Siepmann on ResearchGate
  • Klett Academy for Foreign Language Didactics
  • EMOLEX project on the language of emotion
  • PHRASEOROM project on the language of the contemporary novel
  • Listed in Who's Who in the World https://www.marquiswhoswho.com/
  • Corpus de référence du français contemporain (Reference Corpus of Contemporary French on Varitext)
  • Présentation du "Corpus de référence du français contemporain" on YouTube (Lecture at Sorbonne Nouvelle [Paris 3] on February 4, 2016)[10]
  • Writing in English, Helsinki 25.02.2009 on YouTube

References

  1. ^ Who's Who in the World, 2011 edition
  2. ^ Who's Who in the World, 2011 edition
  3. ^ "Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik Mitarbeiterdetails". Universität Osnabrück. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  4. ^ "Pressemitteilung". Universität Heidelberg. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  5. ^ "Klett Akademie für Fremdsprachendidaktik". Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  6. ^ "Referentinnen/Referenten". Deutscher Hochschulverband. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  7. ^ The Horn of Rohan Redux ~ the occasional blog from The Mythopoeic Society ~, mythsoc-rohan.blogspot.com, Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  8. ^ Siepmann, Dirk; Bürgel, Christoph; Diwersy, Sascha (2015). "The Corpus de référence du français contemporain (CRFC) as the First Genre-Diverse Mega-Corpus of French". International Journal of Lexicography. Oxford University Press: ecv043. doi:10.1093/ijl/ecv043. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
  9. ^ Raouf Morsi: Interview with Dieter Lippelt and Dirk Siepmann, Article from 2023-03-22 (Retrieved 2023-03-31)
  10. ^ "Public Announcement". Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Retrieved 2018-12-30. 
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