Newsletter Fall 2026
Newsletter Fall 2026
Table of Contents
Member News
In Memoriam
DSNA26 Updates
Dictionary Skills of the Future
Journal News
A Notice from the DSNA Communications Officer
DSNA Small Project Grant 2025 Report: Martina Guzzetti
Upcoming Conferences
Publication Information
Member News
After a decade of research on the conceptualization of “German” and the considerable role of dictionaries in that process (besides fairy tales and “ethnographic” musings), Stefan Dollinger released a trade book in Standard Austrian German on Standard Austrian German: Österreichisches Deutsch: eine 300-jährige Liebesgeschichte, co-authored with Anneliese Rieger-Roschitz and Simon Schwaighofer, explains for people 14 and up how the originally two standards in German were “funnelled” into one by decree of Empress Maria Theresia in the 1770s and how the pan-German movement and notions of German “purity” hijacked the concept of German language. Nazi philologists (Eberhard Kranzmayer, Otto Höfler, among others) were rehired on false testimony after WWII, the former influencing the Wörterbuch der bairischen Mundarten in Österreich (WBÖ) for almost six decades and educating an army of Austrian dialectologists primed for pan-German perspectives. The...