Roswitha Fischer

Roswitha Fischer (born January 23, 1956 in Fulda ) is a German linguist and English specialist .

After studying English and German and a doctorate in English linguistics in Würzburg and after training as a naturopath with a focus on Chinese medicine, Roswitha Fischer completed her habilitation at the University of Freiburg. She spent long periods abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland and Portland, Oregon, USA. She worked as a university lecturer at the Universities of Würzburg, Freiburg, Aachen and Portland State.

Since 1998 Roswitha Fischer has been C3 Professor for English Linguistics at the Institute for English and American Studies at the University of Regensburg . She turned down an offer at the University of Kassel. Her research focuses on lexicology, corpus linguistics, language and culture / media / ideology and register linguistics. Since the summer semester 2009, Fischer has been giving the lecture “English in Use” on a regular basis, which focuses on pragmatics and text linguistics .

Works (selection)

• Anglicisms in Europe: Linguistic Diversity in a Global Context , Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
• Challenges of linguistic diversity in the European Union , Berlin: Nomos Verlag, 2007.
• Tracing the history of the English language. A textbook for students , Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2003.
• Lexical change in present-day English . Tübingen: Narr, 1998.

Web links

• Literature by and about Roswitha Fischer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Roswitha Fischer on the website of the University of Regensburg