Dr. Ruth Moehlig Falke’s Academic Homepage
phone: +49 (0)1590 1704345
mailto: contact@ruthmoehlig.de
mailto: contact@ruthmoehlig.de
“[A]ll human languages are tools. Tools to solve the twin problems of communication and social cohesion. Tools shaped by the distinctive pressures of their cultural niches – pressures that include cultural values and history and which in many cases account […] for the similarities and differences between languages.”
(Daniel Everett, 2012, Language: The Cultural Tool. London: Profile Books, page 6)
I am affiliated to the University of Cologne as coordinator for the European University for Well-Being. I also work as assistant lecturer in English linguistics at TU Dortmund and as freelance academic tutor and editor of academic texts at WissensArt
– Wissenschaftsberatung und Fachtextlektorat
in Duesseldorf and Cologne.
My main research and teaching interests are in the manifold ways in which language creates meaning, how language varies and changes over time. Being a cognitive-functional linguist, I have recently moved further into the field of discourse pragmatics, socio-anthropological linguistics, and cultural studies. I am fascinated by the relationship between the cultural conceptualisations of the world, their different realisations in language, and the variable and changing strategies of communication between sender and addressee.
My main research and teaching interests are in the manifold ways in which language creates meaning, how language varies and changes over time. Being a cognitive-functional linguist, I have recently moved further into the field of discourse pragmatics, socio-anthropological linguistics, and cultural studies. I am fascinated by the relationship between the cultural conceptualisations of the world, their different realisations in language, and the variable and changing strategies of communication between sender and addressee.