Barbara Frank-Job

Barbara Frank-Job studied Romance and German Studies in Freiburg im Breisgau and Toulouse and received her doctorate in Freiburg in 1992. Between 1988 and 1996 she was a member of the Research Centre (SFB) No. 321 ‘Transitions and Tensions between Orality and Scripturality’ at the DFG in Freiburg and was awarded the venia legendi in Freiburg in 1999 thanks to a paper on the emergence of discursive traditions in French between 800 and 1250. Frank-Job did research stays in Paris, Toulouse, Oxford, London, Cambridge, Grenada and Quebec, taught in Freiburg and Tübingen, and was a visiting professor in Tübingen, at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in Regensburg. Since 2004 she has been Professor of Communication Analysis and Romance Linguistics at the University of Bielefeld. Her main research interests are language change and migration using discourse analysis and corpus linguistics as methods. Since 2013 she has been the principal investigator of an interdisciplinary project on the linguistic analysis of clinical interviews with patients who have suffered epileptic seizures. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)