English summary: Dr. phil. Hans Ruef

Research interests: Cognitive linguistics, philosophy of language, Swiss German dialects, idiomatic language.

Dr. phil., University of Berne, Switzerland. Research associate, University of California, Berkeley. Lecturer, German Department of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

He is currently working on a monograph on cognitive dialectology (based on Swiss German data).

A project he is directing is the compilation of the proverbs and idiomatic expressions from written Swiss German sources.

Due to his interest in the philosophy of language, mainly of the Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, he has also been elected as an author of "Augustinus-Lexikon".

Selected publications:

"Sprichwort und Sprache. Am Beispiel des Sprichworts im Schweizerdeutschen", Berlin/New York 1995.

"Die Sprachtheorie des Augustinus in de dialectica", in: Sten Ebbesen (ed.), Geschichte der Sprachtheorie 3, Tübingen 1995.