PD Dr. Stefanie Siebenhütter

Compendium

1. Research Interests
2. Research
3. Education and Scientific Career
4. Publications
5. Fieldwork
6. Memberships
7. Peer-Review
8. Grants
9. Teaching
10. Presentations

Research Interests

• Multilingualism and Identity
• Cultural linguistics
• Areal Linguistics
• Language Contact
• Sociolinguistics
• Regional focus: Languages of Southeast- and East Asia, e.g., Katuic, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese, Japanese

Research

since 2024
Multilingualism, Language Contact and Language related Identity in East- and Southeast Asia
Grant: BMAS
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

2022-2024
Multi- and Bilingualism in Japan, Emotions and language, Identity in Sociolinguistic Research
Grant: AvH / Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Waseda University Tokyo, Japan

2018-2021
Mehrsprachigkeit und Identität in Mainland Southeast Asia: Soziokulturelle und sprachliche Identität bei Sprachkontakt in politischen Grenzgebieten in Laos, Thailand und Kambodscha
Grant: BMBF „Kleine Fächer – Große Potenziale“
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

2013-2018
Language and Space in Mainland Southeast Asia:
The Grammar of Space in Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, Khmer and Bahasa Indonesia
Grant: DAAD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Education and Scientific Career

2022 – 2024 Postdoctoral researcher
Waseda University (早稲田大学, Waseda daigaku), Tokyo, Japan

07/2022 Habilitation
Venia Legendi: Linguistic Typology
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

2018 – 2021 - Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin: FB 05, Department of English and Linguistics, Language Typology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

2016 – 2018 - Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin: Institut für Allgemeine & Typologische Sprachwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

2016 – 2017 - Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Graduiertenschule Sprache & Literatur München, Institut für Allgemeine & Typologische Sprachwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

07/2016 Promotion zum Dr. phil.
Allgemeine und Typologische Sprachwissenschaft
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

2013 – 2016 - Promotionsstudium: Dissertation: „Raum-Konzeptualisierungen im südostasiatischen Areal – Laotisch, Thai, Khmer und Vietnamesisch“ (summa cum laude), Graduiertenschule Sprache & Literatur München - Klasse für Sprache (GS L&L) an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

2009 – 2013 Magister Studium

• Allgemeine und Typologische Sprachwissenschaft,
• Interkulturelle Kommunikation
• und Japanologie

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

2004 – 2005 Aufbaustudium Interkulturelle Japankompetenz
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen und Doshisha Universität (同志社大学 Dōshisha Daigaku), Kyoto

Publications

Books / Monographs

1. 2023. Tempus, Aspekt und Modus im Vietnamesischen. Gutenberg Open Science: Mainz. http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8959

2. 2022. Mehrsprachigkeit und Identität. Zur Identitätskonstruktion mehrsprachiger Minderheiten am Beispiel der Kui in Nordostthailand. Verlag Dr. Kovač (Habilitationsschrift). https://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-339-12804-1.htm
3. 2019. Conceptual Transfer as an Areal Factor. Spatial Conceptualizations in Mainland Southeast Asia. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Pacific Linguistics [PL]). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton (Pacific Linguistics [PL]). https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501506642
4. 2016. Raum-Konzeptualisierungen im südostasiatischen Areal - Laotisch, Thai, Khmer und Vietnamesisch. Dissertation, LMU Munich: Faculty for Language- and Literature Sciences. doi: 10.5282/edoc.19623, Online: https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/SiebenhuetterStefanie.pdf

 Journal articles (Peer-Reviewed)

5. 2025. Social media use and online presence of linguistic minorities in Thailand and Cambodia: New directions in the study of Kui. The Journal of the Siam Society (JSS).
6. 2023. The multilingual profile and its impact on identity: Approaching the difference between multilingualism and multilingual identity or linguistic identity. Ampersand. 10 (2023) 100123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2023.100123
7. 2023. How important is teacher training? Untrained Community Tutors and Professional Teachers Motivation and Success in Online Second Language Teaching (SLT) and Implications for Future Online SLT. Cogent Education, 10:2, 00:2244836. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2023.2244836
8. 2022. van der Auwera, J.; Nguyen Hai, Q.; Pothipath, V. & Siebenhütter, S. 2022. Existential indefinite constructions in the world and in Mainland Southeast Asia. Journal of Linguistics, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226722000196
9. 2021. Multiple identities of multilingual minorities: Values and practices influencing social, national, and personal identity formation. Journal of Languages and Culture. Vol.12(1), 13-26, January 2021. Online: https://academicjournals.org/journal/JLC/article-abstract/28C925766169
10. 2020. Language practices and attitudes among young minority language speakers in Thailand. In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 2 (2), 1–26. doi: 10.1080/01434632.2019.1711102
11. 2018. Vietnamese được in linguistic research. A critical literature survey. Festschrift für Wolfgang Schulze. In IJDL - International Journal of Diachronic Linguistics and Linguistic Reconstruction. München: Reichert Verlag. http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8956

Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

12. 2025. Identity among Early and Late Multilinguals in the Context of Migration, Religion, and Cultural Diversity. In Malka Muchnik: Language and Places: Multilingual Practices and Identity. Brill.
13. 2025. The study of language and culture in Mainland Southeast Asia. In Svenja Völkel & Nico Nassenstein: International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Third Edition, Elsevier.
14. 2021. 30 Contact and convergence in the semantics of MSEA. In P. Sidwell & M. Jenny (Ed.), The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A comprehensive guide(pp. 707-732). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110558142-030
15. 2019. Sociocultural Influences on Linguistic Geography: Religion and Language in Southeast Asia. In: Brunn, S., Kehrein, R. (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map(pp. 1-19).  Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_84-1
16. 2018. Study of Linguistic Areas: Evidence from Cultural Words, Semantic Maps, and Spatial Reference in Southeast Asia. In: Brunn, S., Kehrein, R. (eds) Handbook of the Changing World Language Map (pp. 1-24). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_83-1

Book Reviews (Peer-Reviewed)

17. 2025. Tracy, Rosemarie & Ira Gawlitzek. 2023. Mehrsprachigkeit und Spracherwerb. (Linguistik und Schule 10) Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto. 168 S., ISBN: 9783823382768 Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik.
18. 2023. Dörnyei, Zoltan & Katarina Mentzelopoulos. 2023. Lessons from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency. Motivation, Cognition and Identity(Psychology of Language Learning and Teaching 18). Bristol: Multilingual Matters. 208 S., ISBN: 9781800412460, Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfal-2023-2017

Conference Proceedings (Peer-Reviewed)

19. 2023. Motivations, Hopes, and Expectations of Untrained Japanese Teachers and Implications for Future Online Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language. The 36th Annual JLTANE Conference, Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of New England, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, Saturday, May 13, 2023. Gutenberg Open Science. http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9032
20. 2017. Language Contact in Political Borderlands: The Case of Katuic Minorities in Central Mainland South-east Asia. LIPP-Symposium of the Graduate School Language & Literature Munich. 24th LIPP-Symposium "Sprachen im Kontakt: gestern - heute - morgen", June 21-23, 2017, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
21. 2016. Transkategoriale Variationen im Vietnamesischen. In: Holl, Daniel, Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Caroline Trautmann (eds.): Bavarian Working Papers in Linguistics: 5th proceedings of the 5th Diskussionsforum Linguistik in Bayern ‘Variation und Typologie’. October 5-6, 2015, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
22. 2012. Topologische Relationen im Vietnamesischen. Paper for the 51st studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS). May 16-20, 2012, University Stuttgart, Germany.

 Other Publications

23. 2023. Identity and Near-Native Second Language Proficiency: What happens to the Identity of the Exceptional Language Learner? Discussion Paper Series: Thinking allowed 01/2023. Gutenberg Open Science. http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9058
24. 2023. Multiple identities of multilingual minorities? How religious values and other extralinguistic practices influence the social, national and personal identity formation. Gutenberg Open Science. http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9151
25. 2023. Static spatial Relations in Vietnamese. A case-study of Vietnamese and German-Vietnamese bilingual speakers. Gutenberg Open Science. http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8960
26. 2022. The Multilingual Profile and its Impact on Identity: Approaching the Difference between Multilingualism and Multilingual Identity. Online: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4248091
27. 2021. Digital Language Learning: Lessons Learned from Japanese Natives Who Became Japanese Online Teachers During the Worldwide Restrictions in 2020. PsyArXiv. February 20. doi:10.31234/osf.io/wfb89. Online: https://psyarxiv.com/wfb89/
28. 2012. Zur Typologie des Tempus-, Aspekt- und Modus-Systems im Vietnamesischen. Magisterarbeit. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Fieldwork

• Thailand (2014, 1 Monat; 2019, 3 Monate, 2020, 2021, je 2 bis 3 Wochen)
• Laos (2003, 20 Tage; 2014, 2021, je 1 Woche)
• Cambodia (2014, 2020, 2021, je 1 Woche)
• Vietnam (2004, 20 Tage, 2014, 1 Woche)
• Indonesia (2014, 10 Tage)
• Japan (2005, 2022-23)

Memberships

• Board Member im Netzwerk MultiLingNet – Scholars investigating Multilingualism
• Member of the Editorial Board Journal of Language and Culture, RILCA, Mahidol University Bangkok, Thailand
• Member of the European Association for Japanese Studies ヨーロッパ日本研究協会

Peer-Review

• Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
• The Journal of the Siam Society (JSS)
• Asian Ethnicity
• Intercultural Education
• Cogent Education
• Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik (ZfAL)
• Forum for Linguistic Studies (FLS)
• utb, Narr, deGruyter etc.

Grants

2022 – 2024 Alexander v. Humboldt-Forschungsstipendium,
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/vernetzen/recherche-im-humboldt-netzwerk/einzelansicht/1219398/priv-doz-dr-stefanie-siebenhutter

2018 – 2021 BMBF Drittmittelprojekt „Kleine Fächer – Große Potenziale“
„Zur Rolle soziokultureller und sprachlicher Identität bei Sprachkontakt in politischen Grenzgebieten: Der Fall Laos, Thailand und Kambodscha“

2016  Dissertation: „Raum-Konzeptualisierungen im südostasiatischen Areal – Laotisch, Thai, Khmer und Vietnamesisch“ (summa cum laude)

2015 – 2016 Abschluss-Stipendium des GraduateCenter^LMU
zur Fertigstellung der Dissertationsschrift

2014 – 2015 DAAD Kurzstipendium für Doktoranden
für Feldforschung in Südostasien (Thailand, Kambodscha, Laos, Vietnam und Indonesien)

2012 – 2013 Abschluss-Stipendium des Zonta Club München II
zur Fertigstellung der Magister-Arbeit

Teaching

• Semantik/Pragmatik: Mehrsprachigkeit
• Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in der Sprachwissenschaft
• Idiomatik und Phraseologie im Japanischen und Deutschen
• Kontrastive Linguistik: Mittel der Satzverknüpfung im Japanischen und Deutschen
• Japanisch I
• Japanisch II
• Strukturen ostasiatischer Sprachen
• Sprachstrukturen/Sprachtypologie: Vergleichende Analyse Ostasiatischer (Japan, Korea, China) und Südostasiatischer Sprachen (Thai, Laotisch, Khmer und Vietnamesisch und Indonesisch)
• Introduction to German Sociolinguistics
• Bilingualism in Japan: Research data evaluation and analysis
• Qualitative research with multilinguals of different cultural backgrounds
• Dokumentationslinguistik
• Die Yoga-Sutren des Patanjanli: Lesen von und Arbeiten mit Originalquellen
• Feldforschung
• Sprachtypologie und Kognition I
• Sprachstrukturen/Sprachtypologie: Sprachliche Universalien, Kognition und Sprache, Sprachbünde, Sprachareale und Sprachgruppen, Variation und Sprachkontakt

Presentations

Eingeladene Vorträge bei internationalen und nationalen Konferenzen

1. 2023. Identity among multilingual speakers from a multidisciplinary perspective: Why multilingual language use is not well described with multilingual identity and why multilinguals do not become multiple identities. Language and Identity Workshop Series IV: Language, Identity, and the Mind, Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo, July 18, 2023, Tokyo, Japan.
2. 2022. Digital Presence of Small Languages without Writing. The Multilingual Kui in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Research Colloquium on Southeast Asian Studies. Universität Passau auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. Wolfram Schaffar.
3. 2020. Der Einfluss von sozialer Schicht und Geschlechterrollen auf sprachliche Kompetenzen von mehrsprachigen Minderheitensprechern in Thailand. Forschungskolloquium des FB 3 am Institut für Interkulturelle Kommunikation. Januar 2020. Universität Hildesheim, Germany auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. Beatrix Kreß.
4. 2017. Cultural Influences on the Choice of Frames of Reference - Spatial Reference in Multilingual Border Areas. Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) annual conference. WorkshopSociotopography: the interplay of language, culture, and environment. December 7-9, 2017, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia auf Einladung von Associate Professor Bill Palmer.
5. 2017. Spatial Reference in the National Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia. Linguistisches Kolloquium. Juli, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. Walter Bisang.

Sonstige Vorträge bei nationalen und internationalen Konferenzen

6. 2024. Identity among multilingual Thai national speakers from a multidisciplinary perspective. International Conference on Language and Places: Multilingual Practices and Identity. Wingate Campus, March 12-14, 2024, Netanya, Israel.
7. 2023. Why “multilingual identity” does not exist. The multilingual profile and its impact on multilinguals identity formation. 4th International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education (ICMME4), University of Malta, Old Valletta Campus, October 12-13, 2023, Malta.
8. 2023. Japanese-German bilingualism in Japan: Experiences with Japanese and German as a trigger for emotional bonds to language in early and late bilinguals. 17th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), Ghent University, August 17-20, 2023, Belgium.
9. 2023. 訓練を受けていない日本語教師の動機、 希望、期待、および将来のオンライン日 本語教育への影響 [Motivations, Hopes, and Expectations of Untrained Japanese Teachers and Implications for Future Online Teaching of Japanese.] 36th Annual Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of New England (JLTANE) Conference, Trinity College, May 13, 2023, Hartford, Connecticut.
10. 2023. Motivations, Hopes, and Expectations of Untrained Japanese Teachers and Implications for Future Online Teaching of Japanese. 6th International Conference on Innovative Research in Education (IRECONF), July 21 – 23, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark.
11. 2022. Japanese-German Bilinguals’ Emotional Bonds to Language. JSPS-Fellows Conference 2022. September 14, 2022, Tokyo, Japan.
12. 2020. Multilingual Females and Linguistic Change: A Quantitative and Qualitative Socio­linguistic Case Study of Minority Speakers in Southeast Asia. Online conference: ICILLS 2020: International Conference on Interdisciplinary Linguistics and Language Studies, Nov 12-13, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.
13. 2020. Socioeconomic Status and Gender Influence on Linguistic Change: A Case Study on Language Competence and Confidence of Multilingual Minority Language Speakers. Online con­ference: ICSLA 2020: International Conference on Sociolinguistics and Language Acqui­sition, Oct 05-06, 2020, Tokyo, Japan.
14. 2020. Multiple Identity Construction among Multilingual Minorities: A Quantitative Socio­linguistic Case Study. Online conference: ICSL 2020: International Conference on Sociology of Language, July 23-24, 2020, Berlin, Germany.
15. 2020. Multilingual Minority Speakers without Minority Language Orthography: The Case of Ethnic Kui in Northeastern Thailand. LinguaPax Asia 2020 Symposium. World Languages in Multilingual Society: Common Values and Challenges for Teaching and Learning. June 13, 2020. International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan.
16. 2020. Multiple Identity Construction among Minority Speakers in Multilingual Settings. Language, Identity and Education in Multilingual Contexts (LIEMC2020). February 20-21, 2020. The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, Netherlands.
17. 2019. Kuy Language Practices in Southwestern Laos. Sixth International Conference on Lao Studies (ICLS6), June 13-15, 2019, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
18. 2019. Kuy Youth Language Practices in Northeastern Thailand and Southwestern Laos. 29th meeting of Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. May 27-29, 2019, KFC Hall & Rooms. Tokyo, Japan.
19. 2018. Language Documentation of the Minority Language Kuy. Sociolinguistic Field Research Methods to Identify Politically-forced and Contact-induced Change. Vielfaltslinguistik – 2. Konferenz zu Typologie und Feldforschung. March 20. – 21. 2018, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
20. 2018. Methodological Approach to Language Awareness in Mainland Southeast Asia. Multilingual Awareness and Multilingual Practices. MAMP18 22-23 November 2018, Tallinn University, School of Humanities, Tallinn, Estonia.
21. 2017. Is Polite Polite enough? How Conceptual and Linguistic Awareness Influences Kuy and Khmer bilinguals. 7th International Conference on Austro-Asiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 7). Sep­tember 29 - October 1, 2017, Christian Albrechts University (CAU), Kiel, Germany.
22. 2017. Language Contact in Political Borderlands: The Case of Katuic Minorities in Central Main­land Southeast Asia. 24^th LIPP-Symposium der Graduate School Language & Literature Munich zum Thema "Sprachen im Kontakt: gestern - heute - morgen", June 21-23, 2017, Ludwig Maximi­li­ans University, Munich, Germany.
23. 2017. Language Awareness in the Multilingual Context of Political Borderlands of MSEA. 27^th Annual Meeting of the SouthEast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS27) May 11-13, 2017, Padang, Indonesia.
24. 2017. Conceptual Borrowing of Spatial Language Caused by Language Contact. Cultural Influen­ces on Spatial Reference in Southeast Asia. Spatial Boundaries and Transitions in Lan­gua­ge and Interaction. Perspectives from Linguistics and Geography. International Confe­rence. April 23-28, 2017, Monte Verità, Ascona.
25. 2016. Spatial Conceptualizations in Mainland Southeast Asia – Lao, Thai, Khmer and Vietna­mese. 26^th Annual Meeting of the SouthEast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS26) May 26-28, 2016, Manila, Philippines.
26. 2015. Transkategoriale Variationen im Vietnamesischen. 5^th Diskussionsforum Linguistik in Bayern ‘Variation und Typologie’. October 5-6, 2015, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.
27. 2012. Topologische Relationen im Vietnamesischen. 51^st studentische Tagung Sprach­wissen­schaft (StuTS). May 16-20, 2012, University Stuttgart, Germany.

Vorträge bei Konferenzen mit Bezug zu Mehrsprachigkeit/Ost- und Südostasien

• International Conferences on Multilingualism (MultiLingNet 2018, 2020, 2023)
• Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS 2016, 2017, 2019)
• International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 2017)
• International Conference on Lao Studies (ICLS 2019)
• International Conference on Sociolinguistics and Language Acquisition (ICSLA 2020)
• International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS 2023)