About
Christa Dürscheid has been Professor for German Linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her main research interests include grammar, variational linguistics, grapholinguistics, and computer mediated communication. From 2006 to 2011 she was the leader of the research project "Writing competences and new media" (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, SNSF). Since 2011 she has been the head of a tri-national project "Handbook of Grammatical Variation in Standard German". Besides, she was one of the leading members in the SNSF project "What’s up, Switzerland? Language, Individuals, and Ideologies in mobile messaging” which started in 2016. She is the author of two textbooks (“Einführung in die Schriftlinguistik, 5th edition, 2016, and “Syntax. Grundlagen und Theorien, 6th edition, 2012), the co-author of the essay “Schreiben digital. Wie das Internet unsere Alltagskommunikation verändert” (2016) and the co-author of the monograph “Wie Jugendliche schreiben. Schreibkompetenz und neue Medien” (2010).
Work
Universitat Zurich
Switzerland