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Prof Dr Paul Rössler

Chair of German Linguistics

Academic career

Vita

  • 1987-1992 Studies in German language and literature/combination of subjects (history, philosophy, journalism) at the University of Vienna.
  • 1992 graduation
  • 1990-1993 Lecturer of German at the Vienna International University Courses (sommers).
  • 1993-1996 Lecturer of German in Keszthely and Szeged (Hungary) as part of the Austria-Hungary Science and Education Co-operation Programme (sommers).
  • 1994-1996 Contract Assistant at the Inst. f. German Language and Literature at the University of Vienna: work in the co-operation project Vienna-Zagreb on Austrian-Croatian language relations in modern times, especially since the 18th century. Focus: research into grammar and the development of the general written German language in Austria in the 18th century. Work on the dissertation related to this topic.
  • 1997 Doctorate (Dr phil.).
  • 1996-1998 Lecturer at the Department of German Language and Literature at the Janus-Pannonius University of Pécs/Hungary.
  • 1998-2011 Lecturer at the Institute of German Language and Literature, University of Vienna.
  • 1998-2001 Assistant Professor in the FWF project "Die Entwicklung der deutschen Schriftsprache in Österreich vom 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert" with Univ.-Prof. Dr Peter Wiesinger.
  • 2002-2005 Assistant Professor in the FWF project "Die Sprache in Adeligenbriefen der Frühen Neuzeit" (The language in aristocratic letters of the early modern period) with Prof. Dr Peter Wiesinger.
  • 2005 Habilitation as private Lecturer at the University of Vienna; venia docendi "German language and literature".
  • 2005-2009 Lecturer at the Institute of German Language and Literature at Charles University, Prague.
  • 2008 Visiting Lecturer at the Chair of German Language and Literature at Pannonius University Pécs/Hungary.
  • 2008-2009 Deputy Chair at the Department of German Linguistics, University of Augsburg (Oct. 2008 - Feb. 2009).
  • 2009-2011 Deputy Chair of the Department of German Language and Literature, Institute of German Language and Literature, University of Regensburg (Oct. 2009 - March 2011).
  • since 2011 Head of the Chair of German Language and Literature at the Institute of German Language and Literature, University of Regensburg.

Guest lectureship(s)/research stays:

  • Masaryk University Brno (2011, 2016)
  • Charles University, Prague (2013, 2014, 2015)
  • Pannonius University of Pécs (2014)
  • University of Bristol (2015)
  • Gakushuin University Tokyo (as Visiting Research Fellow 2017)
  • University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (2018)
  • University of Szeged (2018)
  • University of Ljubljana (2019)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (MA) (as part of MISTI 2022)

Publications

A. Monographs / Publications

  • Rössler, Paul/Besl, Peter/Saller, Anna (eds.): Vergleichende Interpunktion - Comparative Punctuation. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2022 (= Linguistics - Impulses & Tendencies. Vol. 96)
  • Fischer, Roswitha/Hackl, Stefan/Reimann, Sandra/Rössler, Paul (eds.): Praktische Relevanz von Namenforschung und Namenkunde. Commemorative publication for Albrecht Greule on his 75th birthday. Regensburg: edition vulpes 2021. (= Regensburger Studien zur Namenforschung 10)
  • Rössler, Paul/Besl, Peter/Saller, Anna (eds.): Historische Schrift- und Schriftlichkeitsforschung. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2021. (= Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte. ed. by Hans Ulrich Schmid and Arne Ziegler. Vol. 12)
  • Thim-Mabrey, Christiane/Rössler, Paul (eds.): Verständliches Erklären und Instruieren: Linguistics studies on examples of media, technical, official and operational communication. Regensburg: Regensburg University Library 2020 (DOI 10.5283/epub.43103(PDF)). (= Summaries of student theses at the Chair of German Linguistics, University of Regensburg 1)
  • Eller-Wildfeuer, Nicole/Rössler, Paul/Wildfeuer, Alfred (eds.): Alpine German. Influence and use of German in the Alpine region. Regensburg: edition vulpes 2018.
  • Rössler, Paul (ed.): Standardisation processes and variation. Contributions to the convergence of standard language research and variation linguistics. Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang 2016. (= Regensburger Beiträge zur deutschen Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft 99)
  • Szurawitzki, Michael/Busch-Lauer, Ines/Rössler, Paul/Krapp, Reinhard (eds.): Wissenschaftssprache Deutsch - international, interdisziplinär, interkulturell. Tübingen: Narr 2015.
  • Greule, Albrecht/Rössler, Paul (eds.): Sprachbrücken. Current research on the German language and literature in Slovakia. Berlin: Weidler 2015.
  • Šichová, Kateřina/Krapp, Reinhard/Rössler, Paul/Dovalil, Vít (eds.): Standard Variety of German. Case studies from social practice. Berlin: Logos 2015.
  • Kolbeck, Christopher/Krapp, Reinhard/Rössler, Paul (eds.): Stadtsprache(n) - Variation und Wandel. Contributions to the 30th conference of the International Working Group for Historical Urban Language Research, Regensburg, 3-5 October 2012. Heidelberg: Winter 2013 (= Germanistische Bibliothek 47)
  • Reimann, Sandra/Rössler, Paul (ed.): Albrecht Greule: Sacrality. Studies on linguistic culture and religious language. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto 2012. (= Mainzer Hymnologische Studien 25)
  • Rössler, Paul: Writing variation - language region - denomination. Graphematics and morphology in Austrian and Bavarian prints from the 16th to the 18th century. Frankfurt a. M., Bern, Vienna, Paris, New York: Peter Lang 2005. (=Schriften zur deutschen Sprache in Österreich 35)
  • Rössler, Paul (ed.): tribüne. zeitschrift für sprache und schreibung. Theme issue: Punctuation. Issue 4. Vienna: ÖBV&HPT 2003.
  • Canisius, Peter/Rössler, Paul (eds.): Studien zur German language and literature. 5. Volume. Janus Pannonius University of Pécs. Budapest: Osiris 1998.
  • Roessler, Paul: Die deutschen Grammatiken der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts in Österreich. A contribution to the reform of the written German language. Frankfurt a. M., Bern, Vienna, Paris, New York: Peter Lang 1997. (=Schriften zur deutschen Sprache in Österreich 21)
  • Roessler, Paul: Entwicklungstendenzen der österreichischen Rechtssprache seit dem ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert. A syntactic, stylistic and lexical analysis of study laws and ordinances. Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna: Peter Lang 1994. (=Schriften zur deutschen Sprache in Österreich. Vol. 16)

B. Essays

  • Rössler, Paul: Typographische Variation in der Interpunktion des 18. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel des Virgel-Komma-Wechsels. In: Anna D. Havinga, Bettina Lindner-Bornemann (eds.): Deutscher Sprachgebrauch im 18. Jahrhundert. Language mentality, language reality, language richness. Heidelberg: Winter 2022, pp. 213-231.
  • Rössler, Paul: Lost in Translation - Typographic variation in loanword surrounded punctuation positions. On the vanishing of the virgule in 18th century printings. In: Journal of Linguistics 40(3) 2021, pp. 325-343.
  • Rössler, Paul: Mobility in researcher life - stability in researcher speeches? Reflections on the language use and language attitudes of German language and literature linguists. In: Journal for Cultural and Collective Studies. Vol. 7, Issue 2/2021. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, pp. 165-187.
  • Rössler, Paul: Gutes Deutsch, schlechtes Deutsch: Sprachrichtigkeit und Normen als metasprachliches Thema. In: Gerd Antos, Thomas Niehr, Jürgen Spitzmüller (eds.): Handbuch Sprache im Urteil der Öffentlichkeit. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2019, pp. 400-423 (= Handbücher Sprachwissen HSW 10).
  • Rössler, Paul/Froschmayer, Theresa: How the virgel disappeared from the texts in the 18th century - a devariation. In: Germanic contributions of Gakushuin University 23 (2019). Tokyo, pp. 101-120.
  • Rössler, Paul (with the collaboration of Franziska Gürtler): On the prefield marking in Luther prints. In: Nouveaux Cahiers d'Allemand, 36e année (2018), n°4, pp. 355-367.
  • Rössler, Paul: Language from above - on the dimension of height in variety linguistics. In: Nicole Eller-Wildfeuer, Paul Rössler, Alfred Wildfeuer (eds.): Alpindeutsch. Influence and use of German in the Alpine region. Regensburg: edition vulpes 2018. p. 61-80.
  • Rössler, Paul: Semantics, rhetoric, syntax. Non-codified principles of comma placement after Vorfeld. In: Kristin George, Miriam Langlotz, Urania Milevski, Katharina Siedschlag (eds.): Interpunktion im Spannungsfeld zwischen Norm und stilistischer Freiheit. Linguistics, didactics and literary perspectives. Frankfurt/Main 2017. pp. 63-93. (= MeLiS. Media - Literatures - Languages in English/American studies, German language and literature studies and Romance studies 24)
  • Eber, Franziska/Rössler, Paul: Modalised assertions in codices. On formulation strategies in Duden volume 9 "Richtiges und gutes Deutsch". In: Wolf Peter Klein, Sven Staffeldt (eds.): Die Kodifizierung der Sprache. Structures, functions, consequences. Würzburg 2016. pp. 149-161 (= Würzburger elektronische sprachwissenschaftliche Arbeiten 17) (URN: nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl)
  • Rössler, Paul: Pragmatics of punctuation using an example of comma placement. In: Peter Ernst, Martina Werner (eds.): Linguistische Pragmatik in historischen Bezügen. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter 2016. pp. 273-284. (= Lingua Historica Germanica 9)
  • Kolbeck, Christopher/Rössler, Paul: The Rise and Fall of the Item. Item seriality between linguistic innovation and constancy. Item in Regensburg account books. In: Stephan Müller (ed.): Serial Forms. Vienna: Praesens 2015. p. 49-60. (= Stimulus. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für German language and literature 2013)
  • Rössler, Paul: Arcane Confessio or Regiolect with a Confessional Background? Questions on the socio-functional status of graphic variants in East Upper German early modern prints. In: Jürgen Macha, Anna-Maria Balbach, Sarah Horstkamp (eds.): Konfession und Sprache in der Frühen Neuzeit. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Münster et al: Waxmann 2012. pp. 113-122.
  • Rössler, Paul: satz:zeichen - syntax:design. In: Britt-Marie Schuster, Doris Tophinke (eds.): Andersschreiben. Forms, functions, traditions. Berlin: Erich Schmidt 2012. pp. 381-396. (= Philological Studies and Sources, Issue 236)
  • Rössler, Paul/Rutkowska, Hanna: Orthographic Variables. In: Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy, Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre (eds.): The Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2012. pp. 213-236.
  • Rössler, Paul: The boundaries of boundaries. Language history periodisation between research and teaching. In: Péter Maitz (ed.): Historical linguistics. Epistemological interests, fundamental problems, desiderata. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2012. p. 153-168. (= Studia Linguistica Germanica 110)
  • Rössler, Paul: Getting to the point. Punctuation in literary texts between tradition and innovation. In: Gabriele Leupold, Eveline Passet (eds.): Im Bergwerk der Sprache. A history of German in episodes. Göttingen: Wallstein 2012. pp. 35-53.
  • Rössler, Paul: "Der Gipfel der Gefühle" - Gender constructions in summit book entries. In: Gisela Brandt (ed.): Bausteine zu einer Geschichte des weiblichen Sprachgebrauchs IX: Zum Sprachgebrauch in Texten von Frauenhand im Kontext des allgemeinen Sprachgebrauchs. International symposium Magdeburg, 06-08 Sept. 2009. Stuttgart 2010. p. 153-164.
  • Rössler, Paul: Krocha - graphostylistic innovation and youth subculture. In: Andrea Moshövel, Libuše Spáčilová (eds.): Historische Stadtsprachenforschung: Vielfalt und Flexibilität.- Wien 2009. pp. 187-208. (= Schriften zur diachronen Sprachwissenschaft 19)
  • Rössler, Paul: Catch me, if you can - gender construction in macrostructures of (early) modern family letters. In: Gisela Brandt (ed.): Bausteine zu einer Geschichte des weiblichen Sprachgebrauchs VIII: Sprachliches Agieren von Frauen in approbierten Textsorten. International symposium Magdeburg, 10-11 Sept. 2007. Stuttgart 2008. p. 41-57.
  • Rössler, Paul: Kanon diachron. On the periodisation of German language history. In: Jürgen Struger (ed.): Der Kanon - Perspektiven, Erweiterungen und Revisionen. Conference of Austrian and Czech German language and literature scholars, Olomouc, 20-23 September 2007. Vienna 2008. pp. 421-433 (= Stimulus 2007)
  • Rössler, Paul: Macrostructures in Austrian aristocratic letters from the 16th to the 18th century. In: Peter Wiesinger (ed.), Claudia Wich-Reif (co-editors): Text types and text alliances from the 16th to the 18th century. Beiträge zum Internationalen Sprachwissenschaftlichen Symposion in Wien 22. bis 24. Sept. 2005. Berlin: Weidler 2007. p. 65-90. (=Berliner Sprachwissenschaftliche Studien 8)
  • Rössler, Paul: Is politeness feminine? Social gender in family letters in historical comparison. In: Information on German didactics (ide). Journal for the teaching of German in science and schools. Issue 3/2007: "Gender". Edited by Stefan Krammer, Andrea Moser-Pacher. Innsbruck, Vienna, Bolzano 2007. p. 70-81.
  • Rössler, Paul: The speech act as reading. Albert Drach's protocol style from a pragmalinguistic perspective. In: Hana Andrášová, Peter Ernst, Libuše Spáčilovà (eds.): German language and literature. Commemorative publication for Doc. Dr phil. Hildegard Boková. Vienna 2006. pp. 343-356. (=Writings on diachronic linguistics 15)
  • Rössler, Paul: Graphematische Variation in österreichische Adelsbriefen des 16. Jahrhunderts. In: Franz Simmler (ed.): Textsortentypologien und Textallianzen von der Mitte des 15. bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Proceedings of the International Congress in Berlin, 21-25 May 2003. Berlin 2004. pp. 311-331.
  • Rössler, Paul: Graphematic variation as gender writing? On gender-specific writing behaviour in Austrian aristocratic letters of the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Gisela Brandt (ed.): Bausteine zu einer Geschichte des weiblichen Sprachgebrauchs VI: Sprachgebrauch von Frauen in ihren eigenen Texten. International symposium Magdeburg, 8-9 Sept. 2003. Stuttgart 2004. p. 25-42.
  • Rössler, Paul: Power rituals - textual rituals. On Habsburg coronation descriptions in the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Franz Simmler (ed.): Texts of German prose from the 12th/13th to the 18th century and their characteristics. Akten zum Internationalen Kongress in Berlin 20. bis 22. September 1999. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles u.a.: Lang 2002. pp. 421-436. (=Jahrbuch für Internationale German language and literature. Series A. Congress reports. Vol. 67)
  • Rössler, Paul: Schreibwandel im Medienwandel. Grapheme variation in online texts in comparison to printed texts of the early modern period. In: Karmen Teržan Kopecky, Teodor Petrič (ed.): Germanistika v stičnem prostoru Evrope II/Germanistik im Kontaktraum Europa II. International Symposium Maribor/Ljubljana, 18-20 April 2002. anthology 1: Linguistics pp. 154-166.
  • Rössler, Paul: Cuius re(li)gio, eius scriptio. On the confessionalisation of the Bavarian-Upper German written language of the early modern period using the example of vowel spelling. In: Peter Canisius, Zsuzsanna Gerner, Manfred Michael Glauninger (eds.): Sprache - Kultur - Identität. Commemorative publication for Katharina Wild on her 60th birthday. Pécs: Janus Pannonius University 2001. pp. 345-359.
  • Rössler, Paul: Norm.Verstoß. A theory of punctuation at the borderline between historical linguistics and literary studies. In: Stimulus. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für German language and literature 2000/1-2. pp. 225-233.
  • Rössler, Paul: From the Virgel to the Slash. Punctuation between Gutenberg and the Internet. In: Journal for German language and literature. 3/2000: Berlin et al: Lang 2000. pp. 508-520.
  • Rössler, Paul: Vienna - Graz - Klagenfurt. Questions about writing norms, writing practice and printing practice in Inner Austria in the 18th century. In: Zsuzsanna Gerner, Manfred Michael Glauninger, Katharina Wild (eds.): Gesprochene und geschriebene deutsche Stadtsprachen in Südosteuropa und ihr Einfluss auf die regionalen deutschen Dialekte. International conference in Pécs, 30 March - 2 April 2000. Vienna: Edition Praesens 2002. pp. 103-125. (=Schriften zur diachronen Sprachwissenschaft, ed. by Peter Ernst, vol. 11)
  • Roessler, Paul: German language and literature in Austrian foreign editing - a quantité négli-geable? In: Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler, Anton Schwob (eds.): German language and literature in the field of tension between philology and cultural studies. Contributions to the conference in Vienna 1998, Stimulus. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für German language and literature 1999/1. pp. 37-56.
  • Roessler, Paul: Die Großschreibung in Wiener Drucken des 17. und frühen 18. Jahrhunderts. In: Werner Bauer, Hermann Scheuringer (eds.): Beharrsamkeit und Wandel. Festschrift for Herbert Tatzreiter on his 60th birthday. Vienna: Edition Praesens 1998. pp. 205-238.
  • Roessler, Paul: Text, typesetting, printing. Prolegomena on the selection and linguistic analysis of Viennese prints of the 17th and early 18th centuries. In: Peter Ernst, Franz Patocka (eds.): Deutsche Sprache in Raum und Zeit. Festschrift for Peter Wiesinger on his 60th birthday. Vienna: Edition Praesens 1998. pp. 623-642.
  • Roessler, Paul: Das Protokollspiel und weitere Verkleidungen. Notes on Albert Drach's epic and drama using the example of the "Großen Protokolls gegen Zwetschkenbaum" and the "Kasperlspiel vom Meister Siebentot". In: PROZESSE. Newsletter of the International Albert Drach Society. No. 1. divisions of the 1st symposium of the International Albert Drach Society. Vienna 1998. p. 26-42.
  • Roessler, Paul: Zur Interpunktion der Satzbinnengliederung in Wiener Drucken des Barock und der Aufklärung. Preliminaries to a diachronic punctuation theory. In: Paul Rössler and Peter Canisius (eds.): Studien zur German language and literature. 5. Volume. Janus Pannonius University of Pécs. Budapest: Osiris 1998. pp. 73-100.
  • Roessler, Paul: Aichinger and Popovich. An anti-Gothic parallel action of Upper German grammarians? In: Heiner Eichner, Sergius Katsikas, Peter Ernst (eds.): Sprachnorm und Sprachplanung. Festschr. for the 70th birthday of Otto Back. Vienna: Edition Praesens 1996. pp. 263-286.
  • Roessler, Paul: Sprache zur Erziehung - Erziehung zur Sprache. Felbiger's grammars and the written language reform in Austria in the second half of the 18th century. In: The eighteenth century and Austria. Yearbook of the Austrian Society for the Study of the Eighteenth Century. Vol. 10 - Vienna 1995. pp. 55-72.
  • Roessler, Paul: Crossing out. In Robert Musil's footsteps in today's Vienna. In: Lucas Cejpek (ed.): NACH MUSIL. Forms of Thought. Vienna, Berlin: Turia & Kant 1992. pp. 180-192.

C. Articles/Reviews

  • Rössler, Paul: Wie ich Ernst Jandl eine Computer-Lektion erteilte - eine literarische Jazz-Soirée. In: Literary histories. Festgabe for Ursula Regener. Ed. by the staff of the Chair of NDL 1 at the University of Regensburg, privately printed: Regensburg 2021. pp. 111-114.
  • Rössler, Paul: Frank Kirchhoff: From the Virgel to the Comma. The development of punctuation (Germanistische Bibliothek 61). Heidelberg: Winter 2017; Karsten Rinas: Theorie der Punkte und Striche. The history of German punctuation theory (Germanistische Bibliothek 62). Heidelberg: Winter 2017. In: Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft ZRS 2020 (published online ahead of print 2020), 000010151520202041. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/zrs-2020-2041.
  • Rössler, Paul: Michael Elmentaler: Historical Graphematics of German. An introduction. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto 2018. in: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, vol. 142, issue 2. pp. 270-272.
  • Rössler, Paul: Birte Möpert: Die Fachsprache des Tanzes (= Forum für Fachsprachen-Forschung 112). Berlin: Frank & Timme. In: Specialised language. International Journal of Specialised Communication. June 2015. URL: www.fachsprache.net/upload/Fachsprache%20Rezensionen/M_pert_Fachsprache_des_ Tanzes.pdf (accessed: 14.07.2015)
  • Rössler, Paul: Jürgen Spitzmüller: Graphic Variation as Social Practice. A sociolinguistic theory of scriptural 'visibility' (= Linguistics - Impulses & Tendencies 56). Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2013. In: Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft ZRS 2014, vol. 6, issues 1-2. pp. 50-54.
  • Rössler, Paul: Dalibor Zeman: Reflections on the German language in Austria. Linguistic, linguistic-political and sociolinguistic aspects of the Austrian variety. Hamburg (Dr Kovač) 2009. in: brücken. German language and literature yearbook Czech Republic - Slovakia 2010. new instalment 18/1-2. pp. 458-461.
  • Rössler, Paul: Watch out, Hans Haider! Hans Haider: Schreibfrieden. First aid for the latest spelling. Vienna: Edition Steinbauer 2006. in: tribüne. zeitschrift für sprache und schreibung 1/2007. pp. 24-26.
  • Rössler, Paul: Peter Burke: Wörter machen Leute. Society and languages in early modern Europe. Berlin: Wagenbach 2006. in: tribüne. zeitschrift für sprache und schreibung 1/2007. p. 27.
  • Rössler, Paul: Elvira Topalović: Choice of language - text type - dialogue structure. On interrogation protocols from witch trials of the 17th century. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2003. In: Contributions to the history of German language and literature. Edited by Karin Donhauser et al. vol. 127 (2005), issue 3. pp. 481-486.
  • Rössler, Paul: Johannes Diekhans: Der Weg zur sicheren Zeichensetzung. Paderborn: Schöningh 1996. review. In: tribüne. zeitschrift für sprache und schreibung 1/2004. p. 25.
  • Rössler, Paul: A brief history of punctuation marks. In: tribüne. zeitschrift für sprache und schreibung 4/2003. p. 4-6.
  • Rössler, Paul: The pictorial nature of punctuation marks. In: tribüne. zeitschrift für sprache und schreibung 4/2003. pp. 23-27.
  • Rössler, Paul: What is valency? Vilmos Ágel: Valence theory. Tübingen: Narr 2000. in: tribüne. zeitschrift für sprache und schreibung 2/2002. pp. 26, 27.
  • Rössler, Paul: Red light ≠ red light. Ludwig M. Eichinger: German word formation. An introduction - Tübingen: Narr Studienbücher 2000. in: tribüne. zeitschrift für sprache und schreibung 3/2002. pp. 23, 24.
  • Rössler, Paul: Deviation from the norm as a learning principle. Suggestions for unconventional spelling acquisition in German lessons. In: tribüne. zeitschrift für sprache und schreibung 4/2002. p. 19-22.
  • Roessler, Paul: Punkti, Punkti, Strichi, Strichi... ;-) On the historical dimension of sign-setting and media change. In: "The University". Online edition Dec. 1999. www.univie.ac.at: 9090/CIC/ BASIS /zeitung/user/dokument1/ddw?W=
  • Roessler, Paul/Ernst, Peter: Denk mal. On the phenomenology of the memory sign. In: Reading Circle. Vienna 1996.

D. Reports

  • Rössler, Paul: Language - intermedial: voice and writing, image and sound. 45. Annual Conference of the Institute for the German Language. Mannheim, 10-12 March 2009. report. In: Linguistica Pragensia. Vol. XXI/1 (2011). S. 47-52.
  • Roessler, Paul: "Österreichische German language and literature abroad. Ideal and reality". Joint conference of the "Österreichische Gesellschaft für Germanistik" and the "Gesellschaft Ungarischer Germanisten" in Pécs, 8-11 May 1997. conference report. In: IVG International Association for Germanic Linguistics and Literature. Newsletter 1997/98.
  • Roessler, Paul: Grammar in the second half of the 18th century. A contribution to language reform in Austria. A research project report. In: Stimulus. Mitteilungen der österreichischen Gesellschaft für German language and literature 1997/1. Vienna: Edition Praesens 1997. pp. 15-21.
  • Roessler, Paul: 2nd International Workshop "österreichisches Deutsch" in the context of the 24th Workshop of Austrian Linguistics. Graz, 24-26 October 1996. in: LernSprache Deutsch. Vol. 4, No. 2 - Vienna: Edition Praesens 1996.
  • Roessler, Paul: International Colloquium: Austrian German. University of Graz, 22-24 May 1995. report. In: LernSprache Deutsch. Jg.3 (1995), Heft 1-2: Vienna: Edition Praesens 1995. p. 163-166.
  • Reutner, Richard/Roessler, Paul: Multilingual teaching in a team. A school experiment at the schools of the BFI Vienna. Federal Pedagogy Institute in Vienna, 6 April 1995. report. In: LernSprache Deutsch. Jg.3 (1995), Vol. 1-2: Vienna: Edition Praesens 1995. p. 159, 160.

E. Dictionary articles

  • Rössler, Paul: "Alphabet"; "Berliner Orthographiekonferenz"; "Buchstabenname"; "Graphematik"; "Graphonem"; "Normalorthographie Lachmanns", "Orthographie" (published online 2015, 2016). In: Herbert Ernst Wiegand, Stefan J. Schierholz (eds.): Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online. Volume 3: Historical linguistics, ed. by Mechthild Habermann, Ilse Wischer.

Research

a) Main research areas:

  • Written linguistics
  • Orthography
  • Standardisation and variation
  • Morphology
  • Early Modern High German
  • Language change
  • Historical sociolinguistics

b) Current projects/activities:

  • Multilingualism: Speaker of the Forum for Multilingualism and Regionality (FoMuR): www.go.ur.de/fomur
  • Written linguistics: Development and management of the research network "punctuation network": punc.space
  • Representative in the sub-project FALKE (subject-specific teacher competence in explaining) of the overall project KOLEG (Kooperative Lehrerbildung Gestalten): Homepage of the KOLEG project

Teaching

Winter term 2021/22:

Lecture: Punctuation
Advanced seminars/seminars: Uneigentliches Sprechen, Kleintexte, Grafische Variation, research colloquium

Summer term 2021:

Lecture: Early Modern High German
Advanced seminars/seminars: Historical punctuation, research colloquium

Winter semester 2020/21:

Lecture: Devariation
Advanced seminars/seminars: Language codification, research colloquium

Summer term 2020:

Lecture: Pragmatics
Advanced seminars/seminars: Historical multilingualism, research colloquium

Winter semester 2019/20:

Lecture: Individual language change
Exercise: Language history in practice
Advanced seminars/seminars: Alpine German - Language from 'above', research colloquium

Summer term 2019:

Lecture: Writing and written language
Exercise: Analyses of contemporary language
Advanced seminars/seminars: Contrastive punctuation, letters - linguistic history, manuscripts, research colloquium

Winter semester 2018/19:

Lecture: Theories of linguistics
Exercise: Language history in practice, contemporary language analyses
Advanced seminars/seminars: Graphic variation, research colloquium

Summer term 2018:

Lecture: Punctuation
Exercise: Contemporary language analyses
Advanced seminars/seminars: Research colloquium

Winter semester 2017/18:

Lecture: Early Modern High German
Exercise: Contemporary language analyses, accompanying exercise for bachelor's theses
Advanced seminars/seminars: Reading of linguistic classics II, research colloquium

Summer term 2017:

Lecture: Language use and metalanguage (together with Sandra Reimann)
Exercise: Contemporary language analyses, language history in practice, accompanying exercise for bachelor's theses
Advanced seminars/seminars: Language codification (with Vit Dovalil, Charles University Prague), Punctuation, Research colloquium

Winter term 2016/17:

Lecture: Von der Leere. Deviation in German
Exercise: Contemporary language analyses, accompanying exercise for bachelor's theses
Advanced seminars/seminars: Reading linguistics classics, Language in sport, Research colloquium

Summer term 2016:

Research semester off

Winter term 2015/16:

Lecture: Ontogenetic language change
Exercise: Contemporary language analyses, accompanying exercise for bachelor's theses
Advanced seminars/seminars: Administrative language, language management and orthography, research colloquium

Summer term 2015:

Lectures: Tendencies in contemporary language, Punctuation in German
Exercise: Account books as historical linguistic sources, Contemporary language analyses, Accompanying exercise for bachelor's theses
Advanced seminars/seminars: Small texts, Variation in spoken standard German, Research colloquium

Winter term 2014/15:

Lecture: Theories of linguistics
Exercise: Contemporary language analyses, accompanying exercise for bachelor's theses
Advanced seminars/seminars: Letters - linguistic history, Graphic variation, Manuscripts, Research colloquium

Summer term 2014:

Lecture: Writing and writing
Exercise: Contemporary language analyses, accompanying exercise for bachelor's theses
Advanced seminars/seminars: Language and dance, Wie der Satz zum Komma kam - Interpunktion historisch, Research colloquium

Winter term 2013/14:

Lecture: Early Modern High German
Exercise: Contemporary language analyses, accompanying exercise for bachelor's theses
Advanced seminars/seminars: (De-)standardisation between linguistic facts and attitudes, writing strategies in Early New High German

Summer term 2013:

Lecture: Pragmatics
Exercise: Contemporary language analyses, accompanying exercise for bachelor's theses
Advanced seminars/seminars: Beautiful German - ugly German. Language attitudes, language "from above", research colloquium

Winter term 2012/13:

Lecture: From 0-100. language change in the individual.
Lecture series: (De-)standardisation and (de-)variation in German
Exercise: Analyses of contemporary language
Advanced seminars/seminars: Punctuation in European Comparison, Language Change on the Web

Summer term 2012:

Lecture: Tendencies in contemporary German
Exercise : Analyses of contemporary language
Advanced seminars/seminars: Uneigentliches Sprechen, Language in the early modern city

Winter term 2011/12:

Lecture: History of orthography
Exercise: Contemporary language analyses
Advanced seminars/seminars: Early Modern High German urban languages, Doubtful cases of standard language, Metaphors

Summer term 2011:

Lecture: Language and new media
Exercise: Standard varieties: Austrian German
Advanced seminars/seminars: 'Neuschreib'? Language in social networks (Internet), language change

Winter term 2010/11:

Lecture: Punctuation
Advanced seminars/seminars: Orphans of linguistics, Manuscripts

Summer term 2010:

Lecture: Individual language change
Advanced seminars/seminars: Language in sport

Winter term 2009/10:

Lecture: Written Linguistics
Exercise: Standard Varieties: Austrian German
Advanced seminars/seminars: Orthography, letters - language history of a text type

Supervised work

 

Habilitations

  • Dr Christine Pretzl: Speaking in fairy tales. Staging orality in fairy tale texts of the 19th century (2020).

Dissertations
(completed)

  • Anna Saller: Periphrastic tun in extraterritorial varieties of German. Forms and functions of the tun periphrasis in German language minorities in Australia, Texas, Namibia, Romania and Russia (2024).
  • Peter Besl: Question-answer structures in political television interviews. On the responsiveness of response sequences of political actors in the summer interviews of ARD and ZDF (2017).
  • Gudrun Salamon: The vocabulary of perception. Lexicological survey and semantic-categorial analysis (Univ. Vienna) (2017).

(ongoing)

  • Charlotte Vallaster: Diplomatic correspondence as a mirror of socio-political and media-historical developments in the early modern period. Multilingualism in the Acts of the Principle Commission of the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg (working title).
  • Carolina Reichold: Graphematics in the Acts of the Principle Commission of the Perpetual Diet of Regensburg - Developments, Tendencies and Status of the Written Language (working title).
  • Jürgen Ehrenmüller: Let's look, then we'll see. Analyses of the vocabulary of visual perception (working title).
  • Reinhard Krapp: Intersystematic factors of meaning change using the example of the word fields ANGST, AGGRESSION and TRAUER in Schiller's dramas (working title).
  • Satsuki Kujiraoka: Linguistic standardisation processes in Bavaria and Austria from 1720 to 1840 (working title).
  • Eva-Maria Meier: (Good) oral explanation of school-relevant topics (using the example of comma placement) (working title).

as well as numerous Bachelor's, Master's and Magister theses.

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