Gohar Schnelle

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik

Gohar Schnelle is a researcher of project B04 “Emergence and transfer of register patterns” and covers the Early New High German part of the project (texts of Martin Luther). Her dissertation “Registervariation im Althochdeutschen” focuses on methods of register determination appliable for historical languages like Old High German. With regard to the register universe she is mainly interested in the interface between register theory and register methodology in the field of historical languages. Her research interests center on the history of German medical language, on religious language and language use on funerary inscriptions. Gohar Schnelle is also a specialist in German historical corpora and historical corpus building methods, being co-editor of several corpora (Referenzkorpus Altdeutsch, Ridges-herbology and Referenzkorpus Deutsche Inschriften (Subkorpus Grabinschriften)).

Projects

B04 Emergence and transfer of register patterns: Situational-functional parameters of intraindividual variation in the writings of Martin Luther and Johannes Bretke

Contact

Mohrenstraße 40/41, 10117 Berlin-Mitte Raum 0.23

+49 (0)30 2093-85093

Publications & Presentations

    Publications

  • Beier, Phil; Schnelle, Gohar; Unverzagt, Silke; Norde, Muriel; Zeige, Lars Erik  (2023) BiNoKo V. 1.0 Birgitta-Notker-Korpus [DOI] [ViVo]

    The Birgitta-Notker-Korpus (BiNoKo) is a resource dedicated to comparative research on historical registers. The corpus comprises two sources: The Old High German Book of Psalms by Notker III of Saint Gall and the Old Swedish Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden. The subcorpus of Birgitta's Revelations and the subcorpus of Notker's Psalms are available as separate zip files. The corpus format is ANNIS. For local installation, use ANNIS Desktop. The documentation for ANNIS can be found here:
    https://corpus-tools.org/annis/
    https://corpus-tools.org/annis/download.html

    The guidelines (see 'related identifiers') are published in REALIS 2/3 and include information about the corpus design, annotation layers, meta data, and annotation principles.

  • Pescuma, Valentina Nicole; Serova, Dina; Lukassek, Julia; Sauermann, Antje; Schäfer, Roland; Adli, Aria; Bildhauer, Felix; Egg, Markus; Hülk, Kristina; Ito, Aine; Jannedy, Stefanie; Kordoni, Valia; Kühnast, Milena; Kutscher, Silvia; Lange, Robert; Lehmann, Nico; Liu, Mingya; Lütke, Beate; Maquate, Katja; Mooshammer, Christine; Mortezapour, Vahid; Müller, Stefan; Norde, Muriel; Pankratz, Elizabeth; Patarroyo, Angela Giovanna; Plesca, Ana-Maria; Ronderos, Camilo R.; Rotter, Stephanie; Sauerland, Uli; Schulte, Britta; Schüppenhauer, Gediminas; Sell, Bianca Maria; Solt, Stephanie; Terada, Megumi; Tsiapou, Dimitra; Verhoeven, Elisabeth; Weirich, Melanie; Wiese, Heike; Zaruba, Kathy; Zeige, Lars Erik; Lüdeling, Anke; Knoeferle, Pia; Schnelle, Gohar  (2023) Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods  In: Frontiers in Psychology [DOI] [PDF] [ViVo]
    In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center ‘Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of SituationalFunctional Variation’ (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across different time periods, languages, modalities, and cultures. We define ‘register’ as recurring variation in language use depending on the function of language and on the social situation. Informed by rich data, we aim to better understand and model the knowledge involved in situation- and function-based use of language register. In order to achieve this goal, we are using complementary methods and measures. In the review, we start by clarifying the concept of ‘register’, by reviewing the state of the art, and by setting out our methods and modeling goals. Against this background, we discuss three key challenges, two at the methodological level and one at the theoretical level: 1. To better uncover registers in text and spoken corpora, we propose changes to established analytical approaches. 2. To tease apart between-subject variability from the linguistic variability at issue (intra-individual situation based register variability), we use within-subject designs and the modeling of individuals’ social, language, and educational background. 3. We highlight a gap in cognitive modeling, viz. modeling the mental representations of register (processing), and present our first attempts at filling this gap. We argue that the targeted use of multiple complementary methods and measures supports investigating the pervasiveness of register phenomena and yields comprehensive insights into the cross-methodological robustness of register-related language variability. These comprehensive insights in turn provide a solid foundation for associated cognitive modeling.
  • Beier, Phil; Schnelle, Gohar; Unverzagt, Silke; Norde, Muriel; Zeige, Lars Erik  (2023) Guidelines for the Birgitta-Notker-Korpus (BiNoKo)  In: REALIS: Register Aspects of Language in Situation [DOI] [ViVo]
    The Birgitta-Notker-Korpus (BiNoKo) is a resource dedicated to comparative research on historical registers. These guidelines include information about the corpus design, annotation layers, meta data, and annotation principles. The corpus comprises two sources: The Old High German Book of Psalms by Notker III of Saint Gall and the Old Swedish Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden.
  • Schnelle, Gohar; Hennig, Mathilde; Odebrecht, Carolin; Lüdeling, Anke  (2023) Historische Korpora in sprachhistorisch orientierter germanistischer Hochschullehre  In: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur [DOI] [ViVo]
    Abstract This paper argues for incorporating corpus data into the teaching of historical linguistics. While deeply annotated historical corpora are becoming available and corpus data is already widely used to answer various research questions, corpora are as yet rarely used in teaching. We believe they are ideally suited to make the variation in historical data transparent and help students to explore contexts and parameters. In our first study, we show how the KaJuK corpus and its more elaborated version, the GiesKaNe corpus, can be exploited to study adverbial sentences. Using the RIDGES corpus, the second study deals with phrasal and lexical development. Both studies focus on explaining the method and its extension to other corpora and research questions.
  • Beier, Phil; Huber, Judith; Schiegg, Markus; Beier, Phil; Beier, Phil  (2023) Intra-writer variation in Old High German and Old Swedish: The impact of social role relationship on constructing instructions  In: Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics [ViVo]
  • Ihden, Sarah; Schnelle, Gohar; Schröder, Ingrid; Zeige, Lars Erik  (2023) Der Verbund ‚Deutsch Diachron Digital. Referenzkorpora zur deutschen Sprachgeschichte'  In: Neue Entwicklungen in der Korpuslandschaft der Germanistik. [ViVo]

    • Presentations

  • Schnelle, Gohar; Roth, Theresa  (2023) Evidential Strategies in Ancient vs. Early Modern Medical Discourse   In: Kolloquium SFB1412 (2023) [ViVo]
    In our talk we will discuss the development of evidential strategies used in historical medical discourse as a register relevant function. Our results show, that the use of evidentiality in Early Modern German medical texts is tightly bound to evidential strategies used in Ancient medical texts (i.e. Galen), but also shows variation as the scientific standards and thus registers used in contexts of scientific communication change over the centuries. Our analyses are carried out on the basis of a variationist corpus study based on annotation in the Register in diachronic German Science Corpus (Ridges-herbology) combined with a qualitative analysis of medical tractats by Galen (2nd-3rd century AD).
  • Schnelle, Gohar; Roth, Theresa  (2023) Evidential Strategies in Ancient vs. Early Modern Medical Discourse   In: Kolloquium SFB1412 (2023) [ViVo]
    In our talk we will discuss the development of evidential strategies used in historical medical discourse as a register relevant function. Our results show, that the use of evidentiality in Early Modern German medical texts is tightly bound to evidential strategies used in Ancient medical texts (i.e. Galen), but also shows variation as the scientific standards and thus registers used in contexts of scientific communication change over the centuries. Our analyses are carried out on the basis of a variationist corpus study based on annotation in the Register in diachronic German Science Corpus (Ridges-herbology) combined with a qualitative analysis of medical tractats by Galen (2nd-3rd century AD).
  • Schnelle, Gohar; Serova, Dina  (2023) Poster session of the participants of the Berlin University Alliance X-Student Research Group ‘Berlin epitaphs as source for historical register research’  In: Kolloquium SFB1412 (2023) [ViVo]
    The participants of the Berlin University Alliance X-Student Research Group ‘Berlin epitaphs as source for historical register research‘ present their results during a poster session. Their will be an introductory summary of the addressed research questions in English, the posters are prepared in German. organized by Gohar Schnelle and Dina Serova Our students will present their research results featuring the following topics: “Todesreferenzen in Grabinschriften des 17. Jahrhunderts” Franziska Groth, Stephanie Jandt “Darstellung stereotyper Putten im Hauptschiff der Berliner Marienkirche” Tom Liese “Orte und Mobilität auf Epitaphien des 17. Jahrhunderts der Berliner Marienkirche” Marthe Küster “V1 als Registermerkmal?” Elisabeth Eberle “Außertheologische Poesie auf Epitaphien” Luise Bensmann “Vergänglichkeit im 17. Jahrhundert am Beispiel von Epitaphien in der St. Marienkirche zu Berlin” Yasmin Altmann “Gedächtnis und Emotion. Die Rolle von Emotionen im barocken Totengedenken.” Clara Skrippek “Multimodalität und Rezeptionsbedingungen” Ladina Soubeyrand “Epitaphe als biographische Quelle” Svenja Kautz “Personenattribution auf Grabinschriften” Lola Hajnal Berg “Biographische Informationen auf Doppelepitaphien” Bastian Ilgner
  • Schnelle, Gohar; Serova, Dina  (2023) Poster session of the participants of the Berlin University Alliance X-Student Research Group ‘Berlin epitaphs as source for historical register research’  In: Kolloquium SFB1412 (2023) [ViVo]
    The participants of the Berlin University Alliance X-Student Research Group ‘Berlin epitaphs as source for historical register research‘ present their results during a poster session. Their will be an introductory summary of the addressed research questions in English, the posters are prepared in German. organized by Gohar Schnelle and Dina Serova Our students will present their research results featuring the following topics: “Todesreferenzen in Grabinschriften des 17. Jahrhunderts” Franziska Groth, Stephanie Jandt “Darstellung stereotyper Putten im Hauptschiff der Berliner Marienkirche” Tom Liese “Orte und Mobilität auf Epitaphien des 17. Jahrhunderts der Berliner Marienkirche” Marthe Küster “V1 als Registermerkmal?” Elisabeth Eberle “Außertheologische Poesie auf Epitaphien” Luise Bensmann “Vergänglichkeit im 17. Jahrhundert am Beispiel von Epitaphien in der St. Marienkirche zu Berlin” Yasmin Altmann “Gedächtnis und Emotion. Die Rolle von Emotionen im barocken Totengedenken.” Clara Skrippek “Multimodalität und Rezeptionsbedingungen” Ladina Soubeyrand “Epitaphe als biographische Quelle” Svenja Kautz “Personenattribution auf Grabinschriften” Lola Hajnal Berg “Biographische Informationen auf Doppelepitaphien” Bastian Ilgner
  • Schnelle, Gohar; Beier, Phil  (2021) Register dependent variation. Instructions in Notker’s Psalterium and the Revelations of St. Birgitta  In: Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics FAU Erlangen [PDF] [ViVo]
  • Schnelle, Gohar; Beier, Phil  (2021) Register dependent variation. Instructions in Notker’s Psalterium and the Revelations of St. Birgitta  In: Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics FAU Erlangen [PDF] [ViVo]
  • Schnelle, Gohar  (2020) Identification of early Old High German registers by lexical features   In: Kolloquium SFB1412 (2020) [ViVo]
  • Schnelle, Gohar  (2020) Identification of early Old High German registers by lexical features   In: Kolloquium SFB1412 (2020) [ViVo]