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Monika S. Schmid
FAcSS FBA
Schmid in 2005
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materHeinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Academic work
DisciplineSociolinguistics
Sub-disciplineLanguage attrition
Institutions

Monika S. Schmid FAcSS FBA is a German linguist who specialises in language attrition. She is a professor and Head of the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York.

Biography

Monika Schmid began studying at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) in 1990, where she was president of their student parliament.[1] While interviewing survivors of the Holocaust in Germany, she learned about the importance of the transmission of native language from parent to child.[2] In 2000, she obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in English Linguistics from HHU, with her thesis based on these interviews, and she began working as a Lecturer in English Language at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.[2][3] She worked as a lecturer at HHU from 1996 to 2001.[1] In 2007, she moved to the University of Groningen English Department, where she was Senior Lecturer in English Language until her promotion to Professor in 2010.[4] At the University of Essex, she became Professor of Linguistics in 2013 and Head of the Department in 2018, both positions she held until 2021.[3] She later moved to the University of York, where she became a professor,[4] and in January 2022, she became the Head of the Department of Language and Linguistic Science.[3]

As an academic, Schmid specialises in "bilingual development and, in particular, on change, deterioration and stability in the native language of migrants who become dominant in the language of the environment", that it is to say (first) language attrition.[3]

In 2002, she published First Language Attrition, Use and Maintenance, a book based on her thesis;[3] in the book, she noticed that the main cause of German-language attrition within German Jewish Holocaust survivors was Holocaust trauma.[5]

She has created and maintained a webpage about Language Attrition. The webpage contains not just theoretical and practical information about the topic, but also information about calls, grants, and is the starting point of the Language Attrition Network (LAN), a Network that allows colaboration among attrition researchers. One of the main activities is the LAN Reading Group.

In 2012, she published Language Attrition[6], and after it she has published dozens of papers, participated, and edited several volumes about linguistics research in general (i.e. Designing Research on Bilingual Development[7]), and Language Attrition in particular, worthmention is The Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition[8] reviewed[9] by The Linguist List.

She has organized, chair and facilitate several conferences, meetings, and seminars for bringing together researchers in the field of Language Attrition, and advice early career researchers, like the Language Attrition Seminar Series between 2014 and 2018; and the IV International Conference on Language Attrition and Bilingualism in 2022.

She has also contributed to BBC News, the Berliner Zeitung, The Conversation, The Guardian, Svenska Dagbladet, and de Volkskrant, either as an author or as a quoted expert.[4] And has colaborated in different podcasts, Radio Programs, and many more formats.

Schmid was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2021.[10] She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Schmid, Monika S. "Monika S. Schmid". LinkedIn. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b Schmid, Monika S. (10 December 2015). "First language attrition among German-Jewish refugees". Language Attrition. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e "New Head of Department". University of York. 24 January 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b c "Monika S. Schmid". York University. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  5. ^ Hardach, Sophie (6 June 2018). "Can you lose your native language?". BBC Future. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  6. ^ Schmid, Monika S. (2011). Language Attrition. Key Topics in Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-76040-9.
  7. ^ Schmid, Monika S.; Berends, Sanne M.; Bergmann, Christopher; Brouwer, Susanne M.; Meulman, Nienke; Seton, Bregtje J.; Sprenger, Simone A.; Stowe, Laurie A. (2016). "Designing Research on Bilingual Development". SpringerBriefs in Linguistics. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11529-0. ISSN 2197-0009.
  8. ^ academic.oup.com https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34745. Retrieved 8 March 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ^ "LINGUIST List 31.3689: Review: Morphology; Phonetics; Phonology; Psycholinguistics: Schmid, Kopke (2019)". The LINGUIST List. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  10. ^ "Autumn 2021 Fellows for conferment by institution" (PDF). Academy of Social Sciences. 2021. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  11. ^ "Professor Monika Schmid FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
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