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Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication ACLC

Dr. H. (Henning) Radke

Faculty of Humanities
German and Scandinavian Languages & Cultures
Visiting address
  • Spuistraat 134
Postal address
  • Postbus 1641
    1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Profile

    Henning Radke is Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) and the German Studies programme at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). His research focuses on multilingualism in (post)colonial contexts from a sociolinguistic and pragmatic perspective. He publishes on language contact and change, multilingual forms of politeness, methodological triangulation, and extraterritorial varieties of Germanic languages, including Afrikaans, Dutch, English, and German.

    In 2023, Henning defended his PhD on language variation in computer-mediated communication with a special emphasis on the role of multilingual speech acts for the German-Namibian diaspora. He organizes and moderates several academic events in collaboration with the Amsterdam Center for German Studies (DIA), including a public discussion on German traces in Suriname and the Graduiertenkolleg Routes of Communication between Africa and Europe. He also served as a guest lecturer at the German Section of the University of Namibia (2018).

    Henning holds a Master of Arts in Linguistics as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Dutch Philology and Communication Science (Freie Universität Berlin). Furthermore, he was a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Amsterdam Center for German Studies (DIA) from 2014 to 2020. Henning has gained professional experience in five countries: Germany, Namibia, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Suriname. While staying in these countries, he did research, taught German as a foreign language and organized cultural projects. He has worked for the German department at the University of Cape Town, the international office of Freie Universität Berlin, and for the Goethe-Institut Amsterdam.

    Research

    Memberships

    • Alumni Netzwerk Subsahara Afrika e.V. (ANSA)
    • Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
    • Deutsch-Namibische Gesellschaft e.V. / German-Namibian Society
    • Belgischer Germanisten- und Deutschlehrerverband (BGDV)
    • Germanistenverband im Südlichen Afrika / Association for German Studies in Southern Africa (SAVG)
    • Verband der Germanisten an niederländischen Universitäten (VGNU)
  • Publications

    2023

    • Radke, H., & Versloot, A. (2023). Referential Multimodality, Multilingualism and Gender: How German Namibians use Afrikaans and English Brocatives in their CMC. In M. Włodarczyk, J. Tyrkkö , & E. Adamczyk (Eds.), Multilingualism from Manuscript to 3D: Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times (pp. 170-202). (Routledge Studies in Multimodality). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003166634-10 [details]

    2022

    • Radke, H. (2022). Urban Language Practices Online? Multilingualism among German-Namibians in Computer-Mediated Communication. In D. Smakman, J. Nekvapil, & K. Fedorova (Eds.), Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City: Postmodern Individuals in Urban Communicative (pp. 30-48). (Routledge Studies in Language and Identity). Routledge. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429348037-4 [details]

    2021

    2019

    • Leuschner, T., Radke, H., & Küpper, A. (2019). Förderung von Deutsch als Fremd- und Amtssprache in den Benelux-Staaten. In U. Ammon, & G. Schmidt (Eds.), Förderung der deutschen Sprache weltweit: Vorschläge, Ansätze und Konzepte (pp. 615-634). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110479232-038 [details]
    • Radke, H. (2019). Hat Sprache einen Körper an sich? Was Sprachkontaktphänomene über die Körperlichkeit von Sprache verraten. In C. Dauven-van Knippenberg, C. Moser, R. Parr, & M. Wagner-Egelhaaf (Eds.), Text - Körper - Textkörper (pp. 223-242). (Amsterdam German Studies). Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren.
    • Radke, H. (2019). Norm und Variation bei deutschsprachigen Minderheiten. Ein Lehrkonzept für den Unterricht und die Lehre. In J. Ransmayr, & E. Vasylchenko (Eds.), Sprachliche Variation im Deutschen: Unterrichtsdidaktische, deskriptive und internationale Perspektiven (pp. 117-136). (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik; Vol. A, No. 132). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b13270 [details]

    2017

    2012

    • Radke, H. (2012). Een driedeminsionale visie op een ‘sustertaal’ van het Nederlands. Internationale Neerlandistiek, 50(3), 79-82.

    2019

    • Radke, H., & Wagner, V. (2019). Internationalisierung in der DaF-Lehre: Chancen und Herausforderungen am Beispiel von Deutsch für Europastudien der Universität Amsterdam. In Proceedings of The Ist International (Vth online) Scientific and Practical Internet Conference: The investigation and implementation of modern teaching methods and approaches for studying and learning of foreign languages: linguodidactic, methodological and cultural prospects (pp. 223-226). Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University. http://lingvo.onu.edu.ua/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Radke_Internationalisierung-im-DaF-Bereich_20.02.-2.pdf [details]

    2018

    2017

    2021

    2020

    2019

    2018

    2017

    Media appearance

    Talk / presentation

    • Radke, H. (speaker) (6-4-2021). Zur Integration akademischer Kompetenzentwicklung und beruflicher Orientierung, University of Cape Town.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (8-1-2021). Zwei Methoden, eine Studie: Zur Integration qualitativer und quantitativer Forschung, Viadrina European University.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (27-11-2020). Urbane und rurale Mehrsprachigkeit in deutsch-namibischer Onlinekommunikation, Universiteit Gent.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (13-12-2019). The Interplay between Group Cohesion and Slang: on Ingroup Construction through Multilingualism among the German-Namibian Diaspora, [N]OAP Dag, Amsterdam.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (29-11-2019). Sprachvariation und Gruppenkonstruktion am Beispiel der deutsch-namibischen Diaspora., Universiteit Gent.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (1-11-2019). Die digitale Plattform 'Deutsch in der Ukraine': Zwischenstand und Perspektiven, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (27-10-2019). Namdeutsch im Internet - die Rolle von sozialen Medien, Deutsch-Namibische Gesellschaft e.V..
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (10-10-2019). Academic Language Skills and Employability, University of Cape Town.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) & Kashan, J. (invited speaker) (8-9-2019). Deutsche Spuren im Westen und Südosten der Ukraine, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (14-7-2019). The Function of Language Contact Phenomena for the Construction of In-Group-Identities within CMC, Sommerkolloquium, Hanover.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (5-7-2019). The Correlation between Sociolinguistic Variables and Multilingual Speech Acts: on Namibian German in Computer-Mediated Communication, German(ic) in language contact: Grammatical and sociolinguistic dynamics, Berlin.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) & Kashan, J. (speaker) (18-5-2019). Sprachinseln des Deutschen - Didaktisierung durch digitale Medien im DaF-Unterricht, Spuren der deutschen Sprache und Kultur in Polen und anderen nicht-deutschsprachigen Ländern Europas, Opole/Oppeln.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (16-4-2019). Deutsch und Deutschlandbilder im niederländischen Bildungsystem, Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA).
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (5-4-2019). German-Namibians and their Digital Speech Acts: The (Re-)Negotiation between Smaller and Bigger German(ic) Varieties, Small languages, big ideas. The smaller Germanic languages from a theoretical, general and comparative perspective, Zürich.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (22-2-2019). The German-Namibian Diaspora and the Internet: Networked Multilingualism and Virtual Community Building, Routes of Communication between Africa and Europe, Amsterdam.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (14-12-2018). Urban Language Practices Online: Linguistic Fluidity and Fixity in German-Namibian Social Media, Globalising Sociolinguistics (GloSoc2) "Communicating in the city", Leiden.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (9-11-2018). German in the Netherlands: Reasons for Recent Developments, board meeting of the Association for German Studies and German Teachers in Belgium (Belgischer Germanisten- und Deutschlehrerverband), Brussels.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (9-11-2018). German in a Contact Situation: Networked Multilingualism within the German-Namibian community, Universiteit Gent.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (15-10-2018). The Interplay between Academic Language Learning and Employability, University of Cape Town.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (5-10-2018). The Influence of Afrikaans on Namibian German, Afrikaans Grammar Workshop, Ghent.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (19-7-2018). Networked Multilingualism and the Diaspora. Elevator pitch and discussion as part of the workshop 'Promovieren auf dem Lektorat', DAAD Summer Conference (German Academic Exchange Service), Bonn.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (4-7-2018). Ergebnisse und Ausblick einer quantitativen Metadatenanalyse deutsch-namibischer Onlinekommunikation, Freie Universität Berlin.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (20-4-2018). Language Acquisition and Employability, University of Namibia.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (17-4-2018). Die deutsche Sprache in Namibia und das Internet, Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, GfdS.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (8-3-2018). Namdeutsch and the New Media in Namibia, German Abroad 3: Contact Variaties of German Abroad, Erfurt.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (17-11-2017). Variation im Namdeutschen. Eine Medien- und Korpusanalyse, Universiteit Gent.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (20-10-2017). German as a Language of Mediation in the African-European Context or The Case of Namibia’s Periodical 'Allgemeine Zeitung', Language in the Media: Mediat(is)ing (Trans)Nationalism, Cape Town.
    • Radke, H. (keynote speaker) & Abitzsch, D. (keynote speaker) (29-8-2017). (Schulfach) Deutsch in den Niederlanden, Introduction MA Toch Leraar Duits, Utrecht.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (4-8-2017). Norm und Variation deutschsprachiger Minderheiten: Ein Didaktisierungskonzept für den DaF-Unterricht, Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer (IDT), Fribourg.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (7-7-2017). Die mediale Verwendung des Namdeutschen, Sprachliches Wissen im Wandel: grammatisch, pragmatisch, didaktisch, Berlin.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (20-6-2017). Standardizing the Non-Standard or Namdeutsch as a Stylistic Feature in Current Namibian Online Media. A Quantitative and Qualitative Corpus-Based Analysis, Annual Summer Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Tampere.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (7-6-2017). Afrikaans in Namibia. Geschichte, Funktion und Status, Freie Universität Berlin.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (29-11-2016). De Grenzen aan Taal – Uitdagingen and Challenges, Stichting Zuid-Afrikahuis.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (18-11-2016). Variation im Namdeutschen und der Umgang mit ihr in den Medien, Universiteit Gent.
    • Radke, H. (keynote speaker) & Abitzsch, D. (keynote speaker) (30-8-2016). (Schulfach) Deutsch in den Niederlanden, Introduction MA Toch Leraar Duits, Utrecht.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (15-6-2016). The Effects of Frequency in Surinamese Multilingual Speech, 2nd Usage-Based Linguistics Conference, Tel Aviv.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (29-1-2016). Hat Sprache einen Köper an sich? Was uns Sprachkontaktphänomene über die Köperlichkeit von Sprache verraten, international and interdisciplinary conference "Verkörperte Textualität", Universiteit van Amsterdam.
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (9-1-2016). Shall we speak Dutch, Sranan Tongo, or Both? On Code Switching in Surinamese Online Communication, Annual Winter Conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Washington, D.C..
    • Radke, H. (speaker) (27-11-2015). Meertaligheid en Codewisseling. De interactie tussen het Nederlands en het Sranan Tongo in Surinaamse online-communicatie, Taal & Tongval: Borrowing: pragmatic and variational linguistic approaches, Ghent.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (2-10-2015). Sprachenvielfalt in Berlin, Fokus Berlin: 25 Jahre deutsche Einheit im Deutschunterricht, Amsterdam.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (15-3-2015). Das niederländische Deutschlandbild und seine Implikationen für den Deutschunterricht, National Day for Prospective Teachers, Utrecht.
    • Radke, H. (invited speaker) (19-12-2013). Code-Switching zwischen Niederländisch und Sranantongo in computervermittelter Kommunikation, Freie Universität Berlin.

    Others

    • Radke, H. (organiser) & Jürgens, H. (organiser) (22-2-2019). Routes of Communication between Africa and Europe, Amsterdam. How do people in Africa and Europe communicate with each other in the 21st century? What effects do mass media have on the interplay between local (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Radke, H. (organiser) & Marieke, H. (organiser) (19-3-2017 - 24-3-2017). Hochschulpolitische Informationsreise für Mitglieder von Universitätsleitungen. A delegation visit to several institutions of the Dutch higher education system. On behalf of the German Academic Exchange Service (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

    2023

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