Gottfried Fischer (linguist)

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Gottfried Fischer

Gottfried Fischer (born January 17, 1953 in Denver , Colorado , United States ) is an Austrian linguist, language critic and linguist .

Life

Gottfried Fischer's family often moved between the USA and Austria during his childhood and youth. In addition to English and German , Viennese can be counted among the languages ​​with which he grew up, as this dialect differs considerably from standard German in some cases . He studied German and Comparative Linguistics ( Indo-European Studies ) in Vienna ; he owes a great deal to the Indo-Europeanist Georg Renatus Solta . Fischer received his doctorate with a thesis on the origin of the article in the Gothic language . The basis of his doctoral thesis was the translation of the Bible from Wulfila into Gothic.

Act

Since 1987, Fischer has been teaching German as a foreign language as part of German courses at the University of Vienna , and he was an assistant at the University of Sheffield in England for a year. He also gained teaching experience in Hungary . At times he worked for the Austrian Academy of Sciences and contributed to the creation of the motif index of German-language secular narrative literature up to 1400 . Fischer lives in Vienna .

Gottfried Fischer was critical of the language against the Anglicization of the German language in the form of an inappropriate use of English or seemingly English words. In 1998, alongside Stefan Micko and Thomas Paulwitz, he was one of the employees on the list of words “Engleutsch? No thanks! How do I say it in German? ” Until 2008, Fischer was editor of Wiener Sprachblätter , the magazine of the“ Mutterssprache ”association. For the mother tongue association, he collected over 7,000 signatures for a petition against Denglish , which was discussed in the Austrian National Council .

His main focus was also his work against the extinction of dialects , against the reform of German spelling in 1996 and against incorrect use of the language (so-called Dummdeutsch ).

His scientific publications deal primarily with the history of the Germanic language , in some cases also with language education for foreigners and word formation. He is currently working on a dictionary of word formation.

Publications

  • Geoffrey Kovari: Studies on the Germanic article. Origin and use of the article in Gothic. At the same time: Dissertation, University of Vienna. Halosar, Vienna 1984 (Viennese works on Germanic antiquity and philology 26, 224 pages) [ Geoffrey Kovari is the adoptive name at the time].
  • What is language In: Peter Ernst (ed.): Introduction to synchronous linguistics . With contributions by Otto Back u. a. Edition Praesens, Vienna 1997, pages 2-1 - 2-18; 2., verb. u. Probably edition, 1999, ISBN 3-7069-0100-5 (565 pages).
  • Methodological considerations for teaching in advanced levels, 1st part: Affixoids. In: LernSsprache Deutsch vol. 2 (1994), issue 1. Edition Praesens, Vienna.
  • Gottfried Fischer, Peter Ernst: The Germanic languages ​​in the circle of the Indo-European. Edition Praesens, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7069-0117-X (115 pages).
  • Language maintenance. In: Peter Anreiter u. a. (Ed.): Names, Languages ​​and Cultures. Festschrift for Heinz Dieter Pohl on the occasion of his 60th birthday (= Imena, jeziki in kulture). Edition Praesens, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7069-0164-1 (904 pages), pp. 221–237.
  • To the affixoids. In: Language and Name in Central Europe. Contributions to onomatology, dialectology and language island research. Festschrift for Maria Hornung. Edited by Heinz Dieter Pohl. Edition Praesens, Vienna 2000 (= Austrian Name Research, Supplement 1), pp. 419–434.
  • Attempt to classify and terminology the spoken cuts. In: tribune. Journal for Language and Writing, 2/2012, pp. 19–24.

literature

  • Hartwig Norden: Our editor fifty! Becomes a member for life. In: Wiener Sprachblätter. Magazine for good German. 52nd year, 2nd issue. Vienna, June 2003, p. 39.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartwig Norden: Our editor fifty! Becomes a member for life. In: Wiener Sprachblätter. Magazine for good German. 52nd year, 2nd issue. Vienna, June 2003, p. 39.
  2. ^ Working group for culture and history (ed.): Engleutsch? No thanks! How do I say it in German? A word list . Staff: Gottfried Fischer, Stefan Micko, Thomas Paulwitz, Norbert Prohaska, Christiane Schmutterer, Christian Stang; 1st edition, Vienna 1998, 50 pages, see p. 5.
  3. ↑ Gottfried Fischer: Dear readers (self-introduction). In: Wiener Sprachblätter. Magazine for good German. 48th year, 4th issue. Vienna, December 1998, p. 111.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian linguist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver , Colorado , United States