Task Cluster B: Variation
Task Cluster B focuses on the dynamics of varieties of German in Austria in their complex linguistic and social structures. Thereby, individual tendencies as well as those tendencies specific to certain groups are taken into account. Task cluster B is divided into three project parts that collectively address the following questions:
Who in Austria speaks which form(s) of German to whom and when? Which registers (varieties, styles) are chosen in certain contexts and how are they used? Which speech repertoires are in fact available to whom in Austria?
Which processes of language change can be derived from the comparison between ‘older’ language data and the SFB’s new data of currently spoken German? Which hypotheses can be postulated as a result of the synchronic variation ‘in vivo’ with regard to processes of language change in the future?
To what extent do cities such as Vienna and Graz influence the linguistic conditions in Austria? Which kind of impact do these cities have on the dialect landscape in Austria, on the one hand, and on the establishment and stabilisation of an Austrian standard language, on the other?
In order to pursue these and other questions, language data of a large number of people (of diverse regions and groups) in Austria are currently being collected and analysed extensively. Future steps will include the investigation of individual linguistic characteristics and potential patterns of language use. Within the scope of the data collection, rural as well as more urban areas (c.f. PP04) are taken into consideration. Besides dialects, special attention is paid to the German standard language in Austria as well as to the colloquial forms of speech which lie in between dialect and standard language (c.f. PP03). In addition to the data collected in the course of the SFB, comparative language data of the past century are consulted in order to trace the evolution of dialects in Austria (c.f. PP02).
The linguistic data, which will be analysed in Task cluster B, are primarily collected via active field work. This means that in all three project parts the selected speakers are recorded in their home regions, ranging from Vienna and Graz to smaller and more rural locations in all of Austria’s federal provinces. These recordings take place in different ‘examination situations’ which cover traditional sociolinguistic ‘in depth interviews’ (discussing topics such as individual language experiences), experimental investigation techniques (such as translation exercises or image descriptions), and conversations close to everyday speech situations. This way, our speech data can offer a broad picture of various ‘linguistic spaces’ in Austria.
Task cluster B: Variation and changes of German in Austria consists of the following project parts:
PP02: Variation and change of dialect varieties in Austria (in real and apparent time)
PP03: Between dialects and standard varieties: Speech repertoires and varietal spectra
PP04: Vienna and Graz – Cities and their influential force
For more information concerning the individual project parts, please click on the links above.
In: DiÖ-Online.
URL: https://www.dioe.at/en/projects/task-cluster-b-variation
[Access: 04.12.2024]
DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
Dorn, Amelie / Stocker, Rebecca / Stöckle, Philipp (2024): Old dialect words through the ages - the ABCs of dialect project
- Dorn, Amelie / Stocker, Rebecca / Stöckle, Philipp (2024): Old dialect words through the ages – the ABCs of dialect project. In: ARPHA Proceedings volume 6. 213-216. [DOI: doi: 10.3897/ap.e126110] M
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
Lenz, Alexandra: Vortrag Institutstagung 2024
- Lenz, Alexandra N. (03.06.2024): Lexik und ihre Dynamik – Analysen zu Austriazismen in Raum und Zeit. (Institutstagung Germanistik 2024) [URL: M ]
DiÖ – Cluster B, Cluster E – Event
Workshop Sprachsignalverarbeitung
- Draxler, Christoph (21.03.2024): Workshop Sprachsignalverarbeitung. (Workshop, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Wien) Organised by Florian David Tavernier. Participating institutions: Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. M
DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
Bülow, Lars / Wittibschlager, Anja / Lenz, Alexandra N. (2023): Variation and change of relativizers in Austria’s German varieties
- Bülow, Lars / Wittibschlager, Anja / Lenz, Alexandra N. (2023): Variation and change of relativizers in Austria’s German varieties. In: Sprachwissenschaft 48/3, 243-280. M
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
Ziegler, Theresa; Höll, Jan; Pluschkovits, Markus: Vortrag Institutstagung 2024
- Ziegler, Theresa / Höll, Jan / Pluschkovits, Markus (04.06.2024): LexAT – Lexikalische Variation in Österreich. (Institutstagung Germanistik 2024, https://www.germ.univie.ac.at/institutstagung-2024/) M
DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
Korecky-Kröll, Katharina (2023): German adjective gradation in rural and urban regions of Austria
- Korecky-Kröll, Katharina (2023): German adjective gradation in rural and urban regions of Austria. In: Werner, Martina / Dressler, Wolfgang U.: Between derivation and inflection Wien: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press 77-105. [URL: M ]
DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
Manova, Stela / Grestenberger, Laura / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina (2023): Introduction: Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains
- Manova, Stela / Grestenberger, Laura / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina (2023): Introduction: Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains. In: Manova, Stela / Grestenberger, Laura / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina: Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter Mouton (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 380) 1-34. [DOI: M ]
DiÖ – Cluster B, Cluster C – Article – Memo
WBÖ: Wörterbücher in neuem Gewand
Was hat die Palatschinke mit der Plazenta zu tun? Das Online-WBÖ wendet sich explizit auch an interessierte Lai:innen, die Freude daran haben, die Herkunft von Wörtern besser verstehen zu lernen. Antworten darauf findet man im weiterentwickelten Online-Wörterbuch zu bairischen Mundarten, erzählt ÖAW-Sprachforscher Philipp Stöckle.
DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
Korecky-Kröll, Katharina (2023): Diminutives and number: Theoretical predictions and empirical evidence from German in Austria
- Korecky-Kröll, Katharina (2023): Diminutives and number: Theoretical predictions and empirical evidence from German in Austria. In: Manova, Stela / Grestenberger, Laura / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina: Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter Mouton (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 380) 179-204. [DOI: M ]
DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
Manova, Stela / Grestenberger, Laura / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina (2023): Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains
- Manova, Stela / Grestenberger, Laura / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina (Hg.) (2023): Diminutives across languages, theoretical frameworks and linguistic domains. de Gruyter Mouton: Berlin / Boston. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 380. [DOI: M ]
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
Lenz, Alexandra N / Stöckle, Philipp (10.10.2023): Vortrag in Eichstätt
- Lenz, Alexandra N. / Stöckle, Philipp (10.10.2023): Syntakto-semantische Variation von Bewegungsverben – Analysen zu bairischen Dialekten in verschiedenen Kontaktkonstellationen. (German Abroad 5 – Extraterritoriale Varietäten des Deutschen weltweit, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt & Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) [URL: M ]
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
Fanta-Jende, Johanna (26.09.2023): Defensio
- Fanta-Jende, Johanna (26.09.2023): Individuelle Sprachrepertoires und vertikale Spektren des Deutschen in Österreich. Phonetisch-phonolgische Variation auf der DIalekt-Standard-Achse. (Defensio, Universität Wien) M
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
Lenz, Alexandra N. (14.09.2023): Plenarvortrag in München
- Lenz, Alexandra N. (14.09.2023): Lexikalische Dynamik in österreichischen Varietäten - Panchronische Perspektiven. (15. Bayerisch-Österreichische Dialektologietagung (BÖDT), Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (BAdW), München) [URL: M ]
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
Dorn, Amelie / Höll, Jan / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina / Lenz, Alexandra N. / Ziegler, Theresa (12.07.2023): Posterpräsentation in Graz
- Dorn, Amelie / Höll, Jan / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina / Lenz, Alexandra N. / Ziegler, Theresa (12.07.2023): The COVID-19 pandemic in two Austrian media corpora: methods, analyses, and examples from a lexical and a morpho-pragmatic perspective. (DH 2023 - Collaboration as Opportunity, Universität Graz) [URL: M ]
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
Fischer, Ann Kathrin (09.06.2023): Vortrag in Graz
- Fischer, Ann Kathrin (09.06.2023): Grazer /l/-Variation. Von dialektraum(un)typisch gebrauchten /l/-Varianten in der Transitionszone Süd-/Mittelbairisch.. (Variabilität und Wandel: Festtagung zum 60. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Arne Ziegler, Universität Graz) M