Alwin Fill
Alwin Fill (born November 14, 1940 in Kufstein , Tyrol ) is an Austrian linguist and emeritus professor at the University of Graz .
Life
Alwin Fill (parents Dr. Michael Fill, school teacher and Margaret Fill, born Riedlinger) graduated from grammar school Kufstein and studied from 1957 to 1965 English and Classical Philology at the University of Innsbruck . The degree took place in 1965 with a doctorate (dissertation topic: " Narrative situations in the novels of William Somerset Maugham ") and 1967 as a Magister phil. in English and Latin . From 1969 to 1970, Alwin Fill as "Florey Scholar" at the Queen's College of Oxford University and in 1973 as a "visiting scholar" at the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor ( USA operates). In 1977 he completed his habilitation at the University of Innsbruck with the habilitation thesis: " Word transparency in English and German ".
Alwin Fill is with Eva-Maria Fill (Mag. Phil.), Geb. Steiner, married.
research
Alwin Fill's main research areas are in the areas of eco- linguistics, the effects of language, language and tension, and contrastive linguistics .
Professional positions
- 1962–1963 German Assistant Teacher, Acton County Grammar School, London
- 1965–1977 university assistant , University of Innsbruck
- 1977–1980 lecturer in English linguistics, University of Innsbruck
- 1980–2007 Professor of English Linguistics, University of Graz
Important books
- 1980 Word transparency in English and German. A comparative study , Innsbruck: Universitätsverlag
- 1987 Plowshare words. Attempt at an ecology of language , Vienna, Cologne, Graz: Böhlau Verlag.
- 1993 eco-linguistics. An introduction , Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.
- 1996 Language Ecology and Ecolinguistics. Lectures of the symposium at the University of Klagenfurt, October 1995 (Ed.), Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.
- 2001 The Ecolinguistics Reader. Language, Ecology and Environment , London, New York: Continuum (Ed. With Peter Mühlhäusler)
- 2002 Colorful Green Ideas. Papers from the Graz conference (2000) and the Symposium in Passau (2001) , Bern, Berlin etc .: Peter Lang Verlag (Ed. With Hermine Penz & Wilhelm Trampe)
- 2007 The principle of tension. Linguistic reflections on a universal phenomenon , 2nd edition Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag
- 2010 The Language Impact: Evolution - System - Discourse , London, Oakville: Equinox
- 2012 Linguistic Promenade. A pleasant hike through linguistics from Plato to Chomsky , Münster, Vienna: LIT Verlag
- 2014 Child and Youth Linguistics. Sprachspiel - Sprachwelt - Sprachkritik , Münster, Vienna: LIT Verlag
- 2018 The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics , New York and London: Routledge Verlag (Ed. With Hermine Penz)
1. Chair of Literary Studies: Karl Luick (1898–1908) | Alois Pogatscher (1908–1911) | Albert Eichler (1911–1944) | Herbert Koziol (1944–1961) | Franz Karl Stanzel (1962–1993) | Werner Wolf (since 1994)
2. Chair of Linguistics I: Hans Ernst Pinsker (1967–1970) | Wolfgang Viereck (1973–1978) | Alwin Fill (1980-2008) | Catharina Henrica Elisabeth Mennen (since 2015)
3. Chair of Linguistics II: Wolfgang Riehle (1973–2006) | Daniela Wawra (2009-2010) | Remus Gergel (2012–2016) | Gunther Kaltenböck (since 2019)
4th Chair for Subject Didactics I: Sarah Jane Mercer (since 2015)
5th Chair of Didactics II: Elizabeth Erling (since 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fill, Alwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kufstein , Tyrol |