Wolfgang U. Dressler

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Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler (born December 22, 1939 in Vienna ) is an Austrian linguist and emeritus professor at the University of Vienna . Since 1989 he has been chairman of the Commission for Linguistics and Communication Research and since 2010 Deputy Director of the Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Life

Wolfgang U. Dressler was born on December 22nd, 1939 as the son of Obermagistratsrat Oskar Dressler and the musician Elisabeth Dressler, nee Groll. Dressler has been married since 1962 and has two daughters.

Dressler studied linguistics and classical philology at the University of Vienna from 1957 to 1962 and graduated with a Mag. Phil. and Dr. phil. from. 1960–1961 he studied in Rome, 1964–1965 in Paris. In 1968 he received his habilitation in linguistics at the University of Vienna .

From 1961 to 1962 Dressler first worked as a trial teacher at the Piarist High School in Vienna and from 1962 to 1962 as an epigraphist at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. 1964–1969 he was an assistant at the Institute for Linguistics at the University of Vienna. In 1970 he went as a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles and 1970–1971 as an associate professor at Ohio State University in Columbus. Numerous visiting professorships and lectures have taken him to various institutions across Europe, North and South America and Asia over the years.

1971–2008 Dressler was a full professor for general and applied linguistics at the Institute for Linguistics at the University of Vienna, from 1978–2008 he also held the function of the institute's director.

In 1979 Dressler was elected a corresponding member in Germany and in 1992 a real member of the philosophical-historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Dressler has been chairman of the commission for linguistics and communication research since 1989 and deputy director of the institute for corpus linguistics and text technology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2010. Since 1995 he has been a corresponding member of the Florentine Accademia della Crusca . In 2003 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and in 2004 an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . In 2005 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea . He has been a foreign member of the Accademia dei Lincei since 2012 .

Dressler's research areas include text linguistics , phonology , morphology , language acquisition and psycholinguistics . He is both an important proponent of the theory of naturalness and known for working with Robert-Alain de Beaugrande on textuality .

Wolfgang U. Dressler published over 400 books and articles. His Introduction to Text Linguistics (1981, with Robert de Beaugrande) has been translated into numerous languages.

honors and awards

In 2001 a commemorative publication for Dressler appeared in English with the title Naturally! to which many colleagues contributed articles from various branches of linguistics.

In 2013 Dressler was awarded the Cardinal Innitzer Prize for his life's work .

Publications (selection)

  • Studies on Verbal Plurality . (Habil.) Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Böhlau 1968
  • Text linguistics: annotated bibliography . Dressler, Wolfgang U. / Schmidt, Siegfried J. Munich, Fink 1973
  • Basic questions of morphonology . Vienna, publishing house of the Öster. Academy of Science. 1977 ISBN 3-7001-0209-7
  • Introduction to text linguistics . De Beaugrande, Robert / Dressler, Wolfgang U. Tübingen, Niemeyer 1981 ISBN 3-484-22028-7
  • Philology and aphasiology: a contribution to theory and Methodology of patholinguistics . Vienna, publishing house of the Öster. Academy of Science. 1984
  • Normal and deviating texts: studies on determination and Differentiation from text disturbances . Dressler, Wolfgang U. / Wodak, Ruth [Hrsg.] Hamburg, Buske 1984 ISBN 3-87118-684-8
  • Leitmotifs in natural morphology . [Ed.] Amsterdam, Benjamin 1987 ISBN 90-272-3009-9
  • Semiotic parameters of a text-linguistic theory of naturalness Vienna, Verlag der Öster. Academy of Sciences 1989 ISBN 3-7001-1587-3
  • Technical language and communication . Dressler, Wolfgang U. / Wodak, Ruth [ed.] Vienna, Österreichischer Bundesverlag 1990
  • Morphopragmatics . Dressler, Wolfgang U. / Merlini Barbaresi, Lavinia: Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter 1994 ISBN 3-11-014041-1
  • Phonology and Psychophysiology . [Ed.] Vienna: Verlag der Öster. Academy of Sciences 1997 ISBN 3-7001-2673-5
  • Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective . Bittner, Dagmar / Dressler, Wolfgang U. / Kilani-Schoch, Marianne (eds.): Berlin: de Gruyter 2003
  • Morphology naturelle et flexion du verbe française . Kilani-Schoch, Marianne / Dressler, Wolfgang U. Tübingen, Narr 2005 ISBN 3-8233-6161-9
  • The Acquisition of Diminutives: a cross-linguistic perspective . Savickiene, Ineta / Dressler, Wolfgang U. [Eds.] Amsterdam: Benjamin 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. CURRICULUM VITAE ( Memento from January 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.dieuniversitaet-online.at/personalia/beitrag/news/sprachwissenschafter-wolfgang-u-dressler-emeritiert/300.html
  3. ↑ Real members of the philosophical-historical class. In: oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved December 11, 2018 .
  4. ^ Membership list of the Crusca
  5. ↑ Directory of members: Wolfgang U. Dressler. Academia Europaea, accessed July 30, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).
  6. ^ Entry in the Lincei membership directory
  7. ↑ De Beaugrande, Robert / Dressler, Wolfgang U. (1981): “Introduction to Textlinguistics”. Tubingen, Niemeyer
  8. ↑ Schaner-Wolles, Chris [Ed.] (2001): Naturally! : linguistic studies in honor of Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler presented on the occasion of his 60th birthday . Torino, Rosenberg & Sellier
  9. ↑ Current prizes and awards , December 20, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Dressler, Wolfgang U.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dressler, Wolfgang Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian linguist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna