PD Dr. Stefanie Siebenhütter

Compendium

  1. Current Research
  2. Research Interests
  3. Education and Scientific Career
  4. Publications
  5. Presentations
  6. Memberships
  7. Grants

 

Current Research

BMBF Drittmittelprojekt „Kleine Fächer – Große Potenziale“

Die Rolle soziokultureller und sprachlicher Identität bei Sprachkontakt in politischen Grenzgebieten: Der Fall Laos, Thailand und Kambodscha

Research Interests

  • Southeast- and East Asian languages: Katuic languages, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese, Japanese
  • Cultural linguistics
  • Areal Linguistics and Language Contact
  • Sociolinguistics

 

Education and Scientific Career

2018-2021 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin: FB 05, Department of English and Linguistics, Language Typology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

2016 – 2018 - Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin: Institut für Allgemeine & Typologische Sprachwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

2016 – 2017 - Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Graduiertenschule Sprache & Literatur München, Institut für Allgemeine & Typologische Sprachwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

2013 – 2016 - Promotionsstudium: Dissertation: „Raum-Konzeptualisierungen im südostasiatischen Areal – Laotisch, Thai, Khmer und Vietnamesisch“ (summa cum laude), Graduiertenschule Sprache & Literatur München - Klasse für Sprache (GS L&L) an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

2009 – 2013 - Studium Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft: Magisterarbeit: „Zur Typologie des Tempus-, Aspekt- und Modus-Systems im Vietnamesischen“ (1,3), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

Publications

2020. Language practices and attitudes among young minority language speakers in Thailand. In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 2 (2), 1–26. DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2019.1711102. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01434632.2019.1711102

2019. Conceptual Transfer as an Areal Factor. Spatial Conceptualizations in Mainland Southeast Asia. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Pacific Linguistics [PL]). Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton (Pacific Linguistics [PL]). https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/487593

2019. Sociocultural influences on linguistic geography: Religion and language in Southeast Asia. In: Brunn S., Kehrein R. (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer, Cham.

2018. Study of Linguistic Areas: Evidence from Cultural Words, Semantic Maps, and Spatial Reference in Southeast Asia. In: Brunn S., Kehrein R. (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Springer, Cham.

2018. Vietnamese được in linguistic research. A critical literature survey. International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction 15 (2018): 261–288.

2016. Raum-Konzeptualisierungen im südostasiatischen Areal - Laotisch, Thai, Khmer und Vietnamesisch. Dissertation, LMU Munich: Faculty for Language- and Literature Sciences.

2016. Transkategoriale Variationen im Vietnamesischen. In: Holl, Daniel, Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Caroline Trautmann (eds.): Bavarian Working Papers in Linguistics: proceedings of the 5th Diskussionsforum Linguistik in Bayern ‘Variation und Typologie’ from 5. to 6. October 2015 at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany.

2013. Zur Typologie des Tempus-, Aspekt-und Modus-Systems im Vietnamesischen. M.A.-Thesis. LMU Munich: Faculty for Language- and Literature Sciences.

2012. Topologische Relationen im Vietnamesischen. Paper for the 51st studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS) from 16. to 20. Mai 2012 at University Stuttgart, Germany.

Presentations

2020. Multilingual Females and Linguistic Change: A Quantitative and Qualitative Sociolinguistic Case Study of Minority Speaker in Southeast Asia. Online conference: ICILLS 2020: International Conference on Interdisciplinary Linguistics and Language Studies, Nov 12-13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.

2020. Socioeconomic Status and Gender Influence on Linguistic Change: A Case Study on Language Competence and Confidence of Multilingual Minority Language Speakers. Online conference: ICSLA 2020: International Conference on Sociolinguistics and Language Acquisition, Oct 05-06, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.

2020. Multiple Identity Construction among Multilingual Minorities: A Quantitative Sociolinguistic Case Study. Online conference: ICSL 2020: International Conference on Sociology of Language, July 23-24, 2020 Berlin, Germany.

2020. Multilingual Minority Speakers without Minority Language Orthography: The case of ethnic Kui in Northeastern Thailand. LinguaPax Asia 2020 Symposium. World languages in multilingual society: common values and challenges for teaching and learning. 13th June 2020. International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan.

2020. Multiple Identity Construction among Minority Speakers in Multilingual Settings. Language, Identity and Education in Multilingual Contexts (LIEMC2020). February 20-21, 2020. The Hague University of Applied Sciences. The Hague, Netherlands.

2020. Der Einfluss von sozialer Schicht und Geschlechterrollen auf sprachliche Kompetenzen von mehrsprachigen Minderheitensprechern in Thailand. Sprach- und Informationswissenschaften, Forschungskolloquium des FB 3, January 7, 2020, Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany.

2019. Kuy language practices in Southwestern Laos. Sixth International Conference on Lao Studies (ICLS6), June 13-15, 2019, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York USA.

2019. Kuy Youth language practices in Northeastern Thailand and Southwestern Laos. 29th meeting of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. May 27-29, 2019, KFC Hall & Rooms. Tokyo, Japan.

2018. Methodological Approach to Language Awareness in Mainland Southeast Asia. International Conference on Multilingual awareness and multilingual practices (mamp18), 22-24 November 2018 Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estland.

2018. Language documentation of the minority language Kuy Sociolinguistic field research methods to identify politically-forced and contact-induced change. Vielfaltslinguistik. 2. Konferenz zu Typologie und Feldforschung, 20.-21.03.2018, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

2017. Cultural influences on the choice of frames of reference - Spatial reference in multilingual border­areas. Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) annual conference.Workshop Sociotopography: the interplay of language, culture, and environment. December 7-9, 2017, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia.

2017. Is polite polite enough? How conceptual and linguistic awareness influences Kuy and Khmer bilinguals. 7th International Conference on Autro-Asiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 7). September 29 - October 1, 2017, Christian Albrechts University (CAU), Kiel, Germany.

2017. Spatial reference in the national languages of Mainland Southeast Asia. Linguistisches Kolloquium. July 3, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.

2017. Language Contact in political Borderlands: The case of Katuic minorities in central Mainland Southeast Asia. 24th LIPP-Symposium der Graduate School Language & Literature Munich zum Thema "Sprachen im Kontakt: gestern - heute - morgen", June 21-23, 2017, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

2017. Language awareness in the multilingual context of political borderlands of MSEA. 27th Annual Meeting of the SouthEast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS27) May 11-13, 2017, Padang, Indonesia.

2017. Conceptual borrowing of spatial language caused by language contact. Cultural influences on spatial reference in Southeast Asia. Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Language and Interaction. Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography. International Conference. April 23-28, 2017, Monte Verità, Ascona.

2016. Spatial conceptualizations in Mainland Southeast Asia – Lao, Thai, Khmer and Vietnamese. 26th Annual Meeting of the SouthEast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS26) from 26. to 28. Mai 2016 in Manila, Philippines.

2015. Transkategoriale Variationen im Vietnamesischen. 5th Diskussionsforum Linguistik in Bayern ‘Variation und Typologie’ from 5th to 6th October 2015 at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

2012. Topologische Relationen im Vietnamesischen. 51st studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS) from 16. to 20. Mai 2012 at the University Stuttgart, Germany.

Memberships

  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Asienkunde e. V.
    • Arbeitskreis Südostasien
    • Nachwuchsgruppe der DGA
  • Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL) e. V.
  • Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)

 

Grants

09/2018 – 08/2021 BMBF Drittmittelprojekt „Kleine Fächer – Große Potenziale“: „Zur Rolle soziokultureller und sprachlicher Identität bei Sprachkontakt in politischen Grenzgebieten: Der Fall Laos, Thailand und Kambodscha“

10/2015 – 03/2016 Abschluss-Stipendium des GraduateCenterLMU: zur Fertigstellung der Dissertationsschrift

11/2014 – 01/2015 DAAD Kurzstipendium für Doktoranden: für Feldforschung in Südostasien (Thailand, Kambodscha, Laos, Vietnam und Indonesien)

04/2012 – 02/2013 Abschluss-Stipendium des Zonta Club München II,zur Fertigstellung der Magister-Arbeit