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: 02.10.2023]
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
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
Lenz, Alexandra N. (09.06.2023): Vortrag in Graz
- Lenz, Alexandra N. (09.06.2023): „Lexik und ihre Dynamik – Analysen zu Austriazismen in Raum und Zeit“. (Variabilität und Wandel: Festtagung zum 60. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Arne Ziegler, Universität Graz) 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
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
Edler, Stefanie (09.06.2023): Vortrag in Graz
- Edler, Stefanie (09.06.2023): "Des is gonz a ondere Sprache wie in Graz" – Vergleichspartikeln im Vergleich: Variation in Stadt und Stadtperipherie im Deutschen in Österreich.. (Variabilität und Wandel: Festtagung zum 60. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Arne Ziegler, Universität Graz) M
DiÖ – Cluster B, Cluster D – Event
12th International Conference on Language Variaition in Europe (ICLaVE|12)
- 08.07.2024 bis 11.07.2024: International Conference on Language Variaition in Europe. (ICLaVE|12, Universität Wien) Organised by Alexandra N. Lenz, Manfred M. Glauninger, Jan Höll, Markus Pluschkovits, Philipp Stöckle, Theresa Ziegler. Participating institutions: Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. [URL: ] M
DiÖ – Cluster B, Cluster D – Article – Conference
ICLaVE|12 Vienna, July 8–11, 2024: Call for Papers, Posters & Multimedia Presentations
The 12th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE|12), Vienna, July 2024, welcomes submissions for individual paper, poster and multimedia presentations.
Start of paper, poster and multimedia submission: 1 June 2023
End of submission: 1 November 2023
Scholars working on language variation and change, in areas such as sociolinguistics, dialectology, historical linguistics, sociology of language,…
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
Edler, Stefanie & Ann Kathrin Fischer (13.05.2023): Vortrag in Bern
- Edler, Stefanie / Fischer, Ann Kathrin (13.05.2023): Variation im urbanen Raum: Gesprochenes Deutsch in Wien und Graz.. (Soziolinguistische Perspektiven: Kontakt – Variation – Wandel, Universität Bern) [URL: M ]
DiÖ – Cluster B, Cluster D – Article – Conference
First Circular: Announcing ICLaVE|12 Vienna, July 8–11, 2024
The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, ICLaVE, is one of the most important fora for research in the area of language variation in Europe. It aims at bringing together scholars of languages and language varieties spoken in Europe with the purpose of discussing empirical, methodological and theoretical issues in the study of language variation and change on the continent.
After ICLaVE|11 unfortunately had to be…
DiÖ – Cluster B – Presentation
Tscheru, Gerrit (12.05.2023): Vortrag in Bern
- Tscheru, Gerrit (12.05.2023): "Von voll besoffenen Typen und komplett korrekter Standardsprache." Zur Adjektivintensivierung im Raum Wien und Graz.. (Soziolinguistische Perspektiven: Kontakt - Variation - Wandel, Universität Bern) [URL: M ]
DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
Edler, Stefanie (2023): Des is gonz a ondere Sprache wie in Graz – Vergleichspartikeln im Vergleich: Variation in Stadt und Stadtperipherie im Deutschen in Österreich
- Edler, Stefanie (2023): Des is gonz a ondere Sprache wie in Graz – Vergleichspartikeln im Vergleich: Variation in Stadt und Stadtperipherie im Deutschen in Österreich. In: Braun, Christian / Scherr, Elisabeth: Variabilität und Wandel. Sprache im Spannungsfeld zwischen System und Gebrauch. Festschrift für Arne Ziegler zum 60. Geburtstag. Wien: Praesens 39-58. M
DiÖ – Cluster B – Event
12. Workshop des Netzwerks „Sprachwissenschaftliche Doktorand:innen der Wiener Germanistik and friends“
- 23.11.2023 bis 24.11.2023: 12. Workshop des Netzwerks „Sprachwissenschaftliche Doktorand:innen der Wiener Germanistik and friends“. Organised by Alexandra N. Lenz, Peter Ernst, Florian David Tavernier, Maria Schinko, Wolfgang Koppensteiner. [URL: M ]
DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
Fischer, Ann Kathrin (2023): Grazer /l/-Variation. Von dialektraum(un)typisch gebrauchten /l/-Varianten in der Transitionszone Süd-/Mittelbairisch
- Fischer, Ann Kathrin (2023): Grazer /l/-Variation. Von dialektraum(un)typisch gebrauchten /l/-Varianten in der Transitionszone Süd-/Mittelbairisch. In: Braun, Christian / Scherr, Elisabeth: Variabilität und Wandel. Sprache im Spannungsfeld zwischen System und Gebrauch. Festschrift für Arne Ziegler zum 60. Geburtstag. Wien: Praesens 121-138. M
DiÖ – Cluster B – Publication
Goryczka, Pamela / Wittibschlager, Anja / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina / Lenz, Alexandra N. (2023): Variation adnominaler Possessivkonstruktionen im Deutschen
- Goryczka, Pamela / Wittibschlager, Anja / Korecky-Kröll, Katharina / Lenz, Alexandra N. (2023): Variation adnominaler Possessivkonstruktionen im Deutschen. In: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik volume 90. 1, 31-63. [DOI: M ]