Claudia Moor
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Biography
Claudia Moor is a lecturer in German language and German for economics at the USI. In addition, she holds the position of head of the Goethe-Institut Examination Centre and USI's deputy delegate to the European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education (CercleS) and the Association of Language Centres at Swiss Higher Education Institutions (SSH/CHES/CSUS).
She completed her postgraduate degree in linguistics and literary studies at the University of Zurich. Her research thesis in diachronic linguistics was supervised by Prof. Jakob Theodor Wüest. At the University of Zurich, she also pursued training in general didactics and educational psychology in higher education. She holds examiner certificates from the Goethe-Institut for levels B1 to C2.
She took part in the program on technology-enhanced language teaching (The Living Textbook and Classroom of the Future), presented at the International Supercomputing Conference in San Diego (California, USA).
Her research interests include historical linguistics, the semiotic analysis of discourse, as well as diglossia and societal bilingualism in Switzerland.
In addition to German, she speaks Italian, English, French, and Spanish. She has advanced knowledge of Latin and receptive competence in Romansh.
Research
Recent and forthcoming publications and presentations
Invited contribution:
· Moor, C. (2026). The emergence of the common law in a multilingual environment: a diachronic legal-linguistic perspective, in: Vidya (452/453), February 2026, TNS.
Online guest lecture in a comparative linguistics MA seminar, Babeș‑Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters (May 2026):
· The linguistic landscape of Switzerland: linguistic continuum and implications for intercomprehension illustrated by Romansh.
Peer-reviewed paper scheduled for presentation at the international conference ROMANIA CONTEXTA, 5th edition.October 2026. To be published in the conference proceedings:
· Moor, C. (2026). Langue, droit et pouvoir social. Le langage juridique en Angleterre à la fin du XVIIe siècle entre isolement, élitisme et fossilisation.
