Language Attitudes in Hawick: An Empirical Study

ISBN-13: 9783954893683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 104 str.

Christian Dietz-Verrier

O autorze

Christian Dietz-Verrier was born in Bad Mergentheim in 1977. He graduated from Heidelberg University with a 1st Staatsexamen in English and Mathematics in 2004. During his studies, he spent a year as a Language Assistant in the Scottish Borders. In 2006, he completed his teacher's training in Heidelberg with a 2nd Staatsexamen. He currently works as a Studienrat for English and Mathematics at a grammar school in Mannheim. Since his early adulthood, the author has been passionately interested in Scottish culture, language, and literature. Apart from anything Scottish, the author s academic interests range from Old English Linguistics and Literature to writings of the Romanticist movement. He also spent a three-year period as a teacher at the Deutsche Höhere Privatschule in Windhoek, Namibia. He lives in Mannheim with his wife and his daughter.