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Dr. Antje Sauermann is a researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin, affiliated with the Institute for German Language and Linguistics within the Faculty of Language and Literature. She is actively involved in the Collaborative Research Center 1412 (CRC 1412) 'Register: Language Users' Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation', where she leads project C07 focusing on The impact of language ideologies on register distinctions in multilingual contexts. Her research spans multiple linguistic subfields with a particular emphasis on sociolinguistic variation across different language communities.
Dr. Sauermann's research interests center on sociolinguistics, language register, and German linguistics, with special attention to multilingualism, language contact, and variationist sociolinguistics. Her work examines how language users navigate different registers across various social contexts, with particular focus on Namibian German ('Namdeutsch') and urban varieties like Kiezdeutsch. She investigates how linguistic features differentiate across registers and how social meaning is constructed through language variation. Her research employs both corpus linguistic and experimental approaches, including copy-editing tasks and perception studies.
Analysis of Dr. Sauermann's recent publications reveals a consistent focus on register phenomena across different German varieties and contexts. Her work demonstrates how linguistic features vary systematically across formal and informal registers, particularly in multilingual settings. She has made significant contributions to understanding how language ideologies shape register distinctions, with particular attention to Namibian German's unique position as a variety used in both informal and formal contexts. Her research often intersects with broader questions about linguistic identity, social salience hierarchies, and the cognitive processing of register variation.
As a member of the CRC 1412 research community, Dr. Sauermann collaborates with numerous scholars across disciplines to investigate register phenomena from multiple methodological perspectives. Her work contributes to the center's goal of developing comprehensive models of how language users acquire, process, and produce language according to situational and functional parameters.
Dr. Sauermann's research methodology combines
- Corpus analysis of the DNam corpus (German in Namibia)
- Experimental perception studies
- Cross-linguistic comparison
- Copy-editing tasks to assess register awareness
- Analysis of linguistic features across social salience hierarchies
