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Department of German Language and Literature Janine Dengler

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Department of German Language and Literature
University Heidelberg
Hauptstr. 207–209
D – 69117 Heidelberg

Room: Karlstr. 2, Room 005

E-Mail: janine.dengler@gs.uni-heidelberg.de

Telephone: 06221 543254

Consultation hours: By appointment by E-Mail (in person or online).

Research stay at the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at the Lancaster University (UK) from 02.06 until 01.08.2025

Janine Dengler

Consultation hours for first-generation students

Are you the first person in your family to start a degree programme? Do you need help, have a question or just want to talk about it?

Then come to my consultation hour! By appointment (in person or online).

Research assistant

in the BMBF project “Moralization in science communication - causes, forms and effects” in cooperation with the Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) in Karlsruhe.

Research Interests

  • Discourse and corpus linguistics
  • Pragmatics
  • Moralising speech acts
  • Annotation studies
  • Scientific communication and specialized language research (especially in AI discourse)

Education

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Since 10/2024
PhD at the German Department of Linguistics at the University of Heidelberg
10/2022 - 09/2024
Master of Education in German Studies and History at the University of Heidelberg
10/2018 - 09/2022
Bachelor of Arts in German Studies and History at the University of Heidelberg

Academic Work Experience

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Since 11/2023
Research assistant to Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Felder at the Department of German Language and Literature at the University of Heidelberg in the project “Moralizations in Science Communication – Causes, Forms, and Effects” funded by the federal ministry of education and research (BMBF)
08/2021 - 10/2023
Student assistant to Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Felder in the research project “Culture Wars: Battles for Cultural Heritage” at the Department of German Language and Literature at the University of Heidelberg
10/2020 - 09/2022
Student assistant to Prof. Dr. Nikolas Jaspert at the Department of Medieval History at the University of Heidelberg

Science Management

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Since 11/2024
Co-organisation of the Marsilius Academy on the topic "AI and Human Values: Exploring technological, social, and normative perspectives" (together with Tobias Just, Dr. Maria Becker and Marcel Kückelhaus)
Since 11/2024
Co-organisation of the annual Language and Knowledge Conference (SuW) 2025 at the University of Heidelberg (together with Prof. Dr Ekkehard Felder, Dr. Maria Becker, Marcel Kückelhaus and Sven Bloching)
Since 02/2024
Head of the Chair Initiative Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics (KILi)

Science Communication/ Public Relations

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Since 07/2024
Counselling and support services for first-generation students at the University of Heidelberg
Since 11/2022
Blogger on the platform hypothesis.org

Publications (titles translated)

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2025
(together with Vahram Atayan, Waldemar Czachur, Ekkehard Felder, and Delphine Pasques): Discourse Linguistics from a Supranational Perspective. In: Atayan, Vahram / Felder, Ekkehard / Czachur, Waldemar/ Pasques, Delphine / Crestani, Valentina (eds.): Discourse-Analytical Perspectives on Medical Communication. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag (Publications of the European Centre for Linguistics).
2024
Discourse-strategic procedures for asserting validity claims in science communication. Master’s thesis.
2023
Women in Straitjackets: Reasons for Institutionalisation. In: Between Invisibility, Repression and Lesbian Emancipation – Women Loving Women* in Southwest Germany from 1945 to the 1980s. Blog post.
Who Am I? The (Re-)Construction of Female Patients. In: Between Invisibility, Repression and Lesbian Emancipation – Women Loving Women* in Southwest Germany from 1945 to the 1980s. Blog post.
Culture War over Marriage – How Marriage Could Be Preserved from Obscurity. In: Culture Wars – Struggles over Cultural Heritage. Blog post.
How Lesbian* Life Realities Are Made (In)Visible In and Through Files. In: Between Invisibility, Repression and Lesbian Emancipation – Women Loving Women* in Southwest Germany from 1945 to the 1980s. Blog post.
2022
Marriage as an obscuration-resistant concept of cultural heritage. A discourse-linguistic perspective in law, politics and society. Bachelor’s thesis.
Between Male Expectations and Female Self-Determination. In: Between Invisibility, Repression and Lesbian Emancipation – Women Loving Women* in Southwest Germany from 1945 to the 1980s.

Presentations

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26.04.2025
Presentation at the graduation ceremony of the German Studies Department in the old auditorium in Heidelberg on the topic “Talking about artificial intelligence - between redemption and downfall”
02.-04.04.2025
Panel on the project "Moralizations in science communication’ with presentation, poster session and plenary discussion at the KoKoKom conference in Karlsruhe together with Lisa Gaffney (sub-project Communication Science, KIT) and Dr. Elisabeth Does (sub-project Philosophy, KIT)
03.12.2024
Presentation at the WMK Colloquium (Science - Media - Communication) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) on the topic “Moralizations in the discourse on artificial intelligence - a discourse-strategic procedure for enforcing validity claims in science communication”
14.11.2024
Presentation at the colloquium of the European Centre for Linguistics (EZS) on the topic "Moralizing speech acts in the public-media discourse on artificial intelligence’
26.-29.07.2024
Presentation at Charles University in Prague as part of the Joint PhD Colloquium of the Cooperative Network Philotrans and the European Discourse Community (EuDG) within the 4EU+ Alliance on the topic “Moralization practices in science communication in the discourse on artificial intelligence”

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