This week, an interview with me about Texas German aired on the “Deutschlandfunk” (German National Public Radio). Click HERE for the interview.
This week, an interview with me about Texas German aired on the “Deutschlandfunk” (German National Public Radio). Click HERE for the interview.
New article published! Together with Collin Baker (UC Berkeley) and Josef Ruppenhofer (FernUniversitaet in Hagen), I published a paper “FrameNet at 25” in the latest issue of the International Journal of Lexicography.
Back in Chongqing (this time virtually)! Today, I presented a talk “Learning and teaching words in the foreign language classroom with semantic frames: The German Frame-based Online Lexicon (G-FOL).” The online talk was part of the Advanced Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics hosted by the College of International Studies at Southwest University.
New publication: “Zur Dokumentation und Erforschung deutschsprachiger Pressetexte in Texas: Welchen Einfluss hatte das Standarddeutsche auf das Texas-Deutsche?” In C. Foeldes (ed.), Auslandsdeutsche Pressesprache in Europa, Asien und Nordamerika, 301-320. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. (Hans C. Boas & Ekaterina Levina). Click [ here ] for PDF.
This week, we will host the 48th Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, April 4-6, 2024. Click HERE for the conference program.
The March 2024 issue of Texas Highway Magazine features a story about Texas German, including an interview with me and my colleague Jim Kearney. Click HERE for the PDF of the article.