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Jonas Trochemowitz

Negotiating the Incompatible – A Linguistic Discourse-Praxeography of Queer-Christian Subjectivation

For my dissertation I am interested in theoretically as well as empirically exploring the concept of ‘declaration of contradiction’. In this framework contradictions do not exist independent of language but become part of the social world through being linguistically constructed. From a discourse-linguistic perspective I am interested in the conditions under which contradictions are declared and how actors position themselves by negotiating what ought to be considered contradictory within discourse. In terms of methodology I use corpus analysis as well as ethnographic fieldwork within the context of queer-Christian communities.

Research interests
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Discourse Studies
  • Queer- and Gender-Studies
  • Linguistic Anthropology
Vita
  • Since 2021
    Research Assistant in the Department of German Linguistics at the University of Bremen.
  • 2018 – 2020
    M.A. German Studies, University of Bremen.
  • 2015 – 2018
    B.A. German Studies/English-Speaking Cultures, University of Bremen.
Publications
Talks, Workshops, and Events
  • 2024
    Talk with Lara Herford Wenn Rechte reden wollen – Instrumentelle Deliberation als Kommunikationsstrategie neurechter Content-Creator:innen at the Politolinguistisches Nachwuchskolloquium | 20.3.2024 | U Kassel
  • 2023
    Talk Hermeneutische Sprachlosigkeit — Zum Unvermögen der Adressierung queer-feindlicher Diskriminierung in kirchlichen Kontexten as part of the Workshop „Über das Unsagbare sprechen – Ein interdisziplinär religionslinguistischer Methodenworkshop“ | 02.12.2023 | Universität Bremen
  • 2023
    Talk Linguistische Widerspruchsforschung beim 15. Nordwestdeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium (NWLK) | 01.12.2023 | Universität Oldenburg
  • 2023
    Talk Queer-Gottesdienste – Sprachliche Praxis zwischen Konvention und Subversion at the Conference „Queer im Pfarrhaus: die pastoraltheologische Relevanz nicht-heteronormativer Lebensformen von Pfarrer*innen” | 21.09.2023 | Universität Münster
  • 2023
    Vortrag Ich bin ein Meisterwerk Gottes! Smart, sexy und schwul – zur sprachlichen Sichtbarmachung queerer Menschen in Gottesdiensten bei Konferenz “Zur Politisierung des Alltags Strategische Kommunikation in öffentlichen Diskursen” | 02.02.2023 | Universität Siegen
  • 2023
    Talk The disruptive potential of declarative speech at the International Conference: Discourses in/of Disruption, 16.11-17.11.2023, TU Dresden
  • 2023
    Performance Open Campus. Fakten & Fiktion: Performance und Science-Slam zum Thema Widersprüche at AMS!-Theater with WoC-GradNet: Jonas Trochemowitz, Deborah Nyangulu, Jan Dittrich. 24.06.2023.
  • 2023
    Lecture Negotiation the Incompatible. A Discourse-Linguistic Praxiography of Queer Liturgic Practice in Germany with Eva Arnaszus (RTG Contradiction Studies) and Prof. Dr. Phillip Dreesen (ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften). 04.05.2023. U Bremen.
  • 2023
    Talk Anti-Genderism in France and Germany: A transnational illiberal Practice? at DeMarg 5 International Conference Tracing Forms of De/Marginalization – Research Window: Insights into Current DeMarg-relevant Projects, 22.06-24.06.2023, TU Dresden.
  • 2022
    #OutInChurch und die sprachliche Dekonstruktion hegemonialer Widersprüche bei Diskurs – interdisziplinär 11 Diskursanalyse jenseits von Big Data | 11.11.2022 | IDS Mannheim
  • 2022
    GradNet off Campus #1: Intersektionalität und Widerspruch. Ein Gespräch mit Felicia Ewert, 29.07.2022.
  • 2022
    Talk Performative Activism and the Metapositional Conceptualization of Discursive Practice at The Power(s) of Language Negotiating Voice and Recognition (BTWSD#4), 17.06-18.06.2022, University of Stockholm
  • 2022
    WoC GradNet Lecture Series #1: Diskursive Konflikte, 28.01.2022.
  • 2021
    Talk Widerspruchsdeklaration als dissidente Positionierung in antigenderistischen Diskursen at the workshop Zugänge zu Dissens – eine Methodenwerkstatt, 11.06-12.06.2021, U Bremen.
  • 2020
    Talk Nein, Niemals, Nicht, Kein. Die Rolle der Negation in der Versprachlichung von Asexualität at AktivistA, 12.11.2020. Accessible at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qoJjoWJJnM&t=1487s
  • 2019
    Studentische Konferenz – Grenzen der Linguistik I: Porno, 10.02-09.05.2019.
Teaching
  • Summer Term 2024
    Einführung in die Syntax
  • Winter Term 2023/2024
    Grundlagen der Interaktionslinguistik
  • Summer Term 2023
    Einführung in die Syntax
  • Winter Term 2022/2023
    Einfühung in die Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft
  • Summer Term 2022
    Einführung in die Syntax
  • Winter Term 2021/2022
    Soziolinguistik im Spannungsfeld zwischen Korpusanalyse und Ethnografie
  • Summer Term 2021
    Einführung in die Syntax
Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”

Kerstin Knopf
interstice

“The contradiction of law in Derrida lies in the interstice that separates the impossibility of deconstructing justice from the possibility of deconstructing law.”

Andreas Fischer-Lescano
Is contradiction eurocentric?

“Is contradiction a eurocentric concept, operational phenomenon, and instrument of power?”

Kerstin Knopf
name contradiction

“Contradiction becomes real where someone names contradiction.”

Ingo H. Warnke
decolonial scholarship

“Creating decentralizing and decolonizing scholarship on contradiction, contradictory phenomena, and contradicting processes is a challenging task.”

Kerstin Knopf