Welcome!

I am a linguist working on the variational pragmatics of German. My goal is to empirically investigate regional differences in the realization of politeness-sensitive speech acts (e.g., requests) in the German-speaking world. Since January 2023, I have joined the DFG-funded variprag.net project as a doctoral candidate at Freie Universität Berlin.

I obtained my M.A. in Linguistics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Besides my studies, I worked as a research assistant at Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS) as well as the SPA Lab at the University of Potsdam.

Curriculum vitae

Please find my full CV here.

Output

Recently, I have worked on the following papers and talks.

  • Papers

    • Discher, Henrik & Janel Zoske. In press. Variationspragmatik: Bericht zur Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Linguistische Pragmatik (ALP e.V.) an der Universität zu Köln am 07. März 2023. Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik.

    Alexandropoulou, Stavroula, Henrik Discher, Marisha Herb, & Nicole Gotzner. 2022. Incremental pragmatic interpretation of gradable adjectives: The role of standards of comparison. Proceedings of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 32. 481-497. https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v1i0.5399

  • Talks and posters

    • Ackermann, Tanja & Henrik Discher. 09-14 July 2023. The impact of the factors 'nation' and 'region' on pragmatic variation in pluricentric German: First results. Talk given at the 18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Université Libre de Bruxelles.

    Discher, Henrik & Janel Zoske. 17 June 2023. Essen und Höflichkeit: Regionale Variation von kommunikativen Routinen. Talk given at Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin.

    Discher, Henrik. 16 May 2023. Variational pragmatics and discourse completion tasks. Online talk given at the psychosemantics seminar by Nicole Gotzner at the University of Osnabrück.

Contact

Do you have questions or comments? Get in touch with me at henrik.discher@fu-berlin.de.

Office address:
Freie Universität Berlin
Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie
Habelschwerdter Allee 45
Room JK 28/121
14195 Berlin