Csaba Földes 2012

Csaba Földes (born June 8, 1958, in Bácsalmás, Hungary) is a linguist. His research is focused on German present-day language and German as a foreign language. He is currently full professor (W3) and holds the chair of Linguistics of German at the University of Erfurt in Germany. Földes is member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and president of the Central European Association for German Studies (MGV).


Biography

From 1976 to 1981, Csaba Földes studied German Language and Literature, Slavonic Studies and General Linguistics at the universities of Debrecen (Hungary), Odessa (Ukraine), Moscow, Leipzig and at the Humboldt University of Berlin. After his graduation he was appointed as lecturer at the Language Centre of the Kecskemét University of Applied Sciences and as a lecturer in German as a foreign language at a College of Education. In 1987 he took his doctorate at the University of Jena (Germany).

Between 1985 and 1996 Földes worked as a research assistant, since 1993 as an appointed professor of German at the Teacher Training College Gyula Juhász in Szeged and as a university lecturer at the University of Szeged. In 1997 his habilitation treatise was accepted at the University of Debrecen and Földes thus obtained his postdoctoral lecturer qualification. From 1996 to 2012 he was professor of Linguistics of German at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém. At the same time he held professorships of German Linguistics and of German as a foreign language at universities in Germany and Austria. Besides the chair in Veszprém Csaba Földes was also professor of German Studies at the J. Selye University in Komárno (Slovakia). In 2008 he was appointed Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Since fall semester 2012 Csaba Földes is professor of German Linguistics at the University of Erfurt. In 2013 he was awarded the honorary doctorate (Dr. h.c.) in Volgograd (Russia).

Further positions and memberships

Member of the International Board of the Institute of German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, Germany, advisory board member (1998-2006), vice president (2006-2012) of EUROPHRAS: European Association of Phraseology, member of the advisory board of the Association of Intercultural German Studies (GIG), member of the International Association of German Studies (IVG), member of the Austrian Society of German Studies (ÖGG), member of the New York Academy of Sciences. Founder and director of the Competence Centre for Intercultural Linguistics and Intercultural German Studies and of the International Research and Young Academics Network for Intercultural German Studies at the University of Pannonia in Veszprém and the University of Erfurt; editor of the Zeitschrift für Mitteleuropäische Germanistik (ZMG), of the series Beiträge zur Interkulturellen Germanistik (BIG), of the series Texte von Kulturen and the Studia Germanica Universitatis Vesprimiensis.

Research areas

Linguistics of German and German as a foreign/second language: • Language – Culture – Interculturality/Transculturality: Intercultural Linguistics • Intercultural Communication • Bi- and multilingualism • Language policy (especially: the international situation of the German language) • Contact linguistics, Sociolinguistics • Phraseology • Lexicography • German as a minority language

Publications

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