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 research fellow and 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. 2023. Variationspragmatik: Bericht zur Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Linguistische Pragmatik (ALP e.V.) an der Universität zu Köln am 07. März 2023. Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik 51(3). 551-560. https://doi.org/10.1515/zgl-2023-2026

    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

    • Variational pragmatics of German: The effect of 'region' and other micro- and macro-social factors. [with Janel Zoske, Tanja Ackermann, & Horst Simon]. 12th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE), Austrian Academy of Sciences & University of Vienna, 08-11 July 2024.

    Pragmatische Variation im deutschsprachigen Raum: Regionale Unterschiede in der Realisierung von höflichkeitssensitiven Sprechakten. Linguistics Colloquium, Research Center Deutscher Sprachatlas & Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, University of Marburg, 26 June 2024.

    Pragmatische Variation von höflichkeitssensitiven Sprechakten: Die Faktoren 'Region' und 'Nation' in der geostatistischen Analyse. Forschungskolloquium Germanistische Linguistik (FoGeL), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 11 June 2024.

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