Prof. Dr. Barbara Job

Principal Investigator in projects A06, B04 and Ö of the Collaborative Research Center 1646 Linguistic Creativity in Communication (2024-2027)

Completed projects:

LADY study (Linguistic Analysis of Diagnostic Interviews in Young Patients)
Linguistic analysis of diagnostic interviews with young patients
Blinded study to test the criteria for the differential diagnosis of epileptic and dissociative seizures in children and adolescents using conversation analysis
Over the past five years, the working group has developed very good and applicable criteria for deducing the cause of seizures (psychiatric or epileptic) from the way in which children and adolescents describe their seizures. Now a study is to prove that conversational linguists who apply these criteria can reliably and correctly assess the patient's illness even if they have no information about the patient other than a recording of the conversation.

Scientists involved:
Dr Joachim Opp (Head Physician and Director of the SPZ Oberhausen)
Prof Dr Barbara Job
Dr Heike Knerich
Dr Birte Schaller
Student assistants: Yvonne Filies, Mia Schürmann, Kira Dubatuvka
Project sponsor: German Society for Epileptology (DGfE)
Duration: 2020 to 2021

CIAS joint project The Americas as a space of entanglement, Long Essay series, Barbara Frank-Job: Migration as a process: concepts of temporality in blogs of Latin American migrants to Quebec (BMBF regional studies), duration: 2017-2019

Interdisciplinary research project "Lingustic analysis of pain descriptions in children and adolescents" ("LASS study")
in cooperation with the Social Paediatric Centre /
Paediatric Neurology of the Evangelical Hospital Oberhausen
Scientists involved:
Dr Joachim Opp (Chief Physician and Head of the SPC Oberhausen)
Prof Dr Barbara Job
Dr Heike Knerich
Dr Birte Schaller
Student assistants: Justine Kohl, Yvonne Filies, Mia Schürmann
Project sponsor: Wagener Foundation - Foundation for Social Pedagogy
Duration: 2015 to 2017

Interdisciplinary research project "Linguistic differential typology of epileptic and non-epileptic seizures in adolescent patients"
in cooperation with the Social Paediatric Centre /
Paediatric Neurology of the Evangelical Hospital Oberhausen
Scientists involved:
Dr Joachim Opp (Chief Physician and Head of the SPC Oberhausen)
Prof Dr Barbara Job
Dr Heike Knerich
Dr Birte Schaller
Student assistants: Barbara Stücker, Franziska Weinberg
Project sponsor: German Society for Social Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (DGSPJ)
Duration: July 2014 to September 2016

Collaborative project: "Computational Historical Semantics"
Scientists involved:
Prof. Dr Bernhard Jussen, History, University of Frankfurt (Coordinator)
Prof Dr Barbara Job, Linguistics / Romance Studies, Bielefeld University (in charge of Romance sub-projects)
Prof. Dr Peter Koch/Prof. Dr Sarah Desi-Schmid Linguistics / Romance Studies, University of Tübingen
Prof. Dr Alexander Mehler, Computer Science, University of Frankfurt
Prof Dr Maria Selig, University of Regensburg
Project sponsor: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Project organiser:
Research programme: eHumanities
Bewilligungszeitraum 1.4.2013-31.8.2016

Collaborative project: "The Americas as an entangled space: transnational flows, geopolitical imaginaries, social production of the environment"
Coordination: Prof. Dr Willy Raussert, Prof. Dr Angelika Epple (Bielefeld University Center for Interamerican Studies, University and University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
Project sponsor: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Project sponsor: German Aerospace Research Centre Jülich,
Research programme: Regional Studies / Area Studies
Focus topic I: "Transnational flows", project line "Virtual communication spaces of migration and diaspora": Project leader Prof. Dr Barbara Job / Prof. Dr Anne Schröder: "Virtual communication spaces of migration and diaspora".
Laufzeit: 01.02.2013-31.01.2017

Joint project "Linguistic Networks",
Prof. Dr Alexander Mehler (Coordinator, Institute for Information Systems in the Humanities, Goethe University Frankfurt)
Prof Dr Barbara Job (Linguistics, Bielefeld University)
Prof Dr Philippe Blanchard (Mathematical Physics, Bielefeld University)
Dr Hans-Jürgen Eikmeyer (Linguistics, Bielefeld University),
Project title: "Linguistic networks: text-technological representation, computational linguistic synthesis and physical modelling"
Project sponsor: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Project sponsor: Jülich Research Centre,
Research programme: New scientific methods and technologies in the humanities
Funding reference: 01UA0810
Bewilligungszeitraum 1.1.2009-31.12.2012

ZiF working group: "Interdependence and dynamics of linguistic and social networks"
Project funding organisation: ZiF, Bielefeld, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Joint Project Language Networks, Subproject A1 (Barbara Job)
Venue: ZiF, Bielefeld
Event date: 27-30 April 2010

ZiF working group: "Colonialism and the Culture of Writing Language and Cultural Contact in Colonial Discourse Traditions"
Project sponsor: ZiF, Bielefeld, DFG symposium
Organisers: Junior Professor Dr. Sebastian Thies (Romance Literary and Cultural Studies, Bielefeld), Prof. Dr. Rosa Yáñez Rosales (Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Departamente de Estudios del Hombre, Universidad de Guadalajara), Prof. Dr. Barbara Job (Linguistics of Romance Languages, Bielefeld)
International symposia as part of the Bielefeld InterAmerican Studies, 20-22 June 2007
Venue: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld

Dec. 2006 DFG conference: "The emergence of pragmatic markers : innovation, routinisation and pragmaticalisation of approximators and related markers"
Organiser: Dr. Wiltrud Mihatsch / Prof. Dr. Barbara Job
Venue: Bielefeld University

Collaborative Research Centres 321 Transitions and areas of tension between orality and writing, project B12: "European genre systems in comparison". (March 1992-April 1996) University of Freiburg, sub-project: The differentiation of French text types in the Middle Ages. Scope of funding: own habilitation position, BAT IIa for 4 years