Werner Kallmeyer

Prof. Dr. Werner Kallmeyer is the Head of the Department of Pragmatics and Deputy Director at the Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim. He holds an adjunct professorship at the University of Mannheim. His roles include coordinating projects such as 'Kommunikative soziale Stilistik' (Communicative Social Stylistics), 'Aussprachevariation' (Pronunciation Variation), and the 'Corpus Unit for Spoken German'.

• Education: PhD (1969, Cologne University), Habilitation (1982, Bielefeld University), and second Habilitation (1984, University of Mannheim)

Research interests focus on conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics. He has led major initiatives like the DFG Research Group 'Sprachvariation als kommunikative Praxis' (Language Variation as Communicative Practice).

His work emphasizes empirical approaches to spoken German and linguistic documentation. Publications are listed in the IDS alphabetical catalog.