Jannis Androutsopoulos

Academic interests

• Sociolinguistics: Interactional sociolinguistics, sociolinguistic style, sociolinguistic change, language ideologies, ethnolects, multi-ethnic urban vernaculars, sociolinguistics of written language, youth language, hip-hop language and discourse.
• Media linguistics: Language in mass media, media discourse analysis, research methods, audiovisual fiction, reality television, language in popular culture.
• Online research: Computer-mediated communication, online communities, digital ethnography, social media.
• Multilingualism: Social aspects of code-switching, societyl multilingualism, representations of multilingualism in popular culture, networked multilingualism.

Background

• 1991–1997, Doctoral degree in German Linguistics and Translation Studies, Universität Heidelberg
• 1985–1990, Diploma in German Studies (major), Psychology and Art History (minors), University of Athens.

Positions held

• 2009– Professor of German and Media Linguistics (Linguistik des Deutschen und Medienlinguistik), Universität Hamburg
• 2007–2009, Reader in Sociolinguistics and Media Discourse, King's College London
• 2003–2007, Juniorprofessor für Medienkommunikation, Universität Hannover
• 2000–2003, Researcher, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim
• 1998–2000, DFG-funded Post Doc, Universität Heidelberg

Fellowships and affiliations

• 2015, Affiliate, Center for Computer-Mediated Communication, Indiana University
• 2014 (February-March), A.W.Mellon Visiting Fellow, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• 2012 (April-October), External Senior Research Fellow, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Universität Freiburg.
• 2009–2012, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication (LDC), King's College London.
• 2005 (February-March), DAAD Short-term Lecturer, Monash University, Australia.

Memberships

• Zentrum für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Hamburg
• Zentrum für Sprachkorpora, Universität Hamburg
• Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)