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2012 – 2022   
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Promotionsstudium Ägyptologie und Archäologie Nordostafrikas

Seit 06/2012     
Mitglied der Forschergruppe C-1 des Exzellenceclusters Topoi

2005 – 2010     
Universität zu Köln: Magisterstudium Ägyptologie, Klassische Archäologie, Islamwissenschaft

Berufserfahrung und Lehrtätigkeit

Ab Sommer 2013     
Lehrbeauftragte am Institut für Archäologie, Lehrbereich Ägyptologie und Archäologie Nordostafrikas, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2010 – 2011     
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Seminar für Ägyptologie der Universität zu Köln

2009 – 2010     
Studentische Hilfskraft am Seminar für Ägyptologie der Universität zu Köln
Tutorien für Mittelägyptisch, Sprachkurse für Koptisch und ein Seminar zur "Geschichte und Kulturen des antiken Ägypten und Sudan" (alle am Seminar für Ägyptologie der Universität zu Köln)

Perceptive verbs and concepts of the netherworld in Ancient Egyptian funerary texts

Every language and culture has its own way of speaking of perception. This Ph.D. project concentrates on the syntax and semantics of perception verbs in Hieroglyphic Egyptian. The lexicalization patterns of verbs of the five sensory modalities of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste are being studied against the background of methods and theories coming from the field of Cognitive Linguistics and Lexical Semantics.

Since perceptive verbs often develop various meanings, specifically by transfield mappings towards concepts outside the perception domain, a special focus of research is paid to the various metaphorical meaning extensions of perceptive verbs into emotional and cognitive domains of thinking and knowledge. The data is taken from a wide branch of textual sources and combines different literary genres to gain a coherent overview of the semantics of perceptive verbs. Furthermore, the Egyptian language data is considered within broader cross-linguistic research.

Within the context of the work conducted by the graduate research group (C-1) Deixis and Frames of Reference, Elisabeth Steinbach-Eicke co-organized two transdisciplinary conferences dedicated to the topics of “Neuroscience and Ancient Languages” (2012) and “Iconicity. Perspectives of Semiotics and Linguistics” (2013). These conferences as well as the Topoi Reading Group “Issues in Cognitive Linguistics” (2013-2014) have been central for the further methodological development of the dissertation project. Additionally, she has been part of international workshops on sense perception outside the field of Ancient Studies and at the boundaries of academic research fields like Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Psychology or Anthropology, as for instance the “International Workshop: Exploring the Senses” (joint scientific conference of the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen, Radboud University Nijmegen & University of Cologne: Institute for African Studies, 2015) or the “Perception Metaphor Workshop” (collaboration of the Centre for Language Studies of Radboud University Nijmegen & Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen, 2016).

This dissertation project was successfully completed within the Research Group C-1 Deixis and frames of reference: Strategies of perspectivation in language, text, and image of the Excellence Cluster 264 Topoi.

2010     
E. Steinbach, "Nr. 32", "Nr. Ä 22", Nr. Ä 23", "Nr. Ä24", in: F. Labrique/U. Westfehling (Hrsg.), Mit Napoleon in Ägypten. Die Zeichnungen des Jean-Baptiste Lepère (Mainz/Köln 2010) 171.228.229