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Prof. Dr. Heike Wiese is a Professor of German in Multilingual Contexts at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and founder of the Centre “Language in Urban Diversity”. Her research focuses on the dynamics of multilingual settings, including urban contact dialects like Kiezdeutsch and Namdeutsch, linguistic discrimination, and the intersection of grammar and information structure. She leads projects on German in multilingual environments and has authored influential works such as Kiezdeutsch: A New Dialect Emerges (2012), which challenged monolingual ideologies through its analysis of urban youth language.
Her work integrates sociolinguistic and structural linguistic perspectives, emphasizing communicative situations as foundational to linguistic systems. Notable contributions include studies on heritage speakers, register differentiation in Namibian German, and the cognitive underpinnings of numerical language. Wiese collaborates with educational institutions and museums, advocating for linguistic pluralism and combating stigmatization of non-standard dialects.
Her research spans theoretical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics, with a focus on language contact, multilingualism, and the societal impact of linguistic diversity. Awards include the Susanne K. Langer Award (2005) for Numbers, Language, and the Human Mind. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and actively contributes to policy discussions on language education and migration.
