Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Stefan-Michael Newerkla

T: +43-1-4277-42820

stefan.newerkla@univie.ac.at

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/stefan.newerkla/

Consultation hours: by arrangement

Professor of West Slavic Linguistics

Winter term 2023

480006 VO Synchronic Slovak Linguistics: An Overview

480047 SE B.A. Seminar on West Slavic Linguistics - West Slavic languages in contact

480072 VO Synchronic Czech Linguistics: An Overview

480084 PS Introductory Seminar on Czech and Slovak Linguistics

Summer term 2023

480078 VO Diachronic Czech and Slovak Linguistics: An Overview

480087 SE Seminar on Linguistics: West Slavic - Semiotic Analysis of Advertising Texts and Videos

480109 VO Multilingualism in Austria in history and nowadays

480117 KO Colloquium on Lingustics - Constrastive Verbal Morphology and Syntactic Specifics

Winter term 2022

480006 VO Synchronic Slovak Linguistics: An Overview

480047 SE B.A. Seminar on West Slavic Linguistics - Multilingualisim among the West Slavic people

480072 VO Synchronic Czech Linguistics: An Overview

480084 PS Introductory Seminar on Czech and Slovak Linguistics

Rekonstrukce vícejazyčnosti a historických jazykových kontaktů v Rakousku a habsburské monarchii. / Newerkla, Stefan-Michael.

In: Český jazyk a literatura, Vol. 73 (2022/23), No. 3, 01.02.2023, p. 105-110.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Předmluva. / Newerkla, Stefan-Michael.

AKTION Česká republika – Rakousko spolupráce ve vědě a vzdělávání: Zpráva o činnosti za rok 2022. ed. / Sabine Borovanská; Lucie Heroutová; Eva Philipp. Wien : Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung , 2023. p. 2-2.

Publications: Contribution to book › Other contribution to book

Vorwort. / Newerkla, Stefan-Michael.

AKTION Österreich - Tschechische Republik Wissenschafts- und Erziehungskooperation: Jahresbericht 2022. ed. / Sabine Borovanská; Lucie Heroutová; Eva Philipp. Wien : Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung, 2023. p. 2-2.

Publications: Contribution to book › Other contribution to book

Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch. Neue Folge 10 · 2022 : Vienna Slavic Yearbook. New Series 10 · 2022. / Newerkla, Stefan-Michael (Editor); Poljakov, Fedor (Editor).

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. 310 p. (Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch, Vol. N. F. 10).

Publications: Book › Collection › peer-review

Reconstructing multilingualism in the Habsburg state : lessons learnt and implications for historical sociolinguistics. / Newerkla, Stefan-Michael.

In: Sociolinguistica: European Journal of Sociolinguistics, Vol. 36, No. 1-2, 08.12.2022, p. 151-167.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Exploring methods in historical sociolinguistics : editorial. / Nekula, Marek; Newerkla, Stefan-Michael.

In: Slovo a slovesnost. Časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka, Vol. 83, No. 4, 28.11.2022, p. 245-250.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

Historical Sociolinguistics. Historische Soziolinguistik. Historická sociolingvistika. / Nekula, Marek (Editor); Newerkla, Stefan-Michael (Editor).

Praha : Ústav pro jazyk český Akademie věd České republiky, v. v. i., 2022. 122 p. (Slovo a slovesnost. Časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka).

Publications: Book › Special Issue › peer-review

Sprachen trennen und verbinden : Sprachliche und kulturelle Konvergenz in den linguistischen Arealen der ehemaligen Habsburgermonarchie. / Newerkla, Stefan-Michael.

30 Jahre Grenze und Nachbarschaft in Zentraleuropa: Literatur, Kultur und Geschichte. ed. / Wolfgang Müller-Funk; Jan Budňák; Tomáš Pospíšil; Aleš Urválek. Tübingen : Narr Francke Attempto, 2022. p. 75-98 (Kultur - Herrschaft - Differenz, Vol. 27).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › peer-review

Unterwegs beim Nachbarn. Wiener Melange – Mehr als Buchteln und Powidl. Seifert, Maria (Director); Weissenböck, Judith (Editorial Journalist); Mayer, Kurt (Producer) et al.. 2022. ORF 2, ORF2Europe & 3sat : ORF-Landesstudio Wien.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Film

Forschungsfrage: Fahren wir „auf“ Urlaub oder „in“ Urlaub? Die deutsche Sprache in Österreich umfasst sowohl Varietäten des Standarddeutschen als auch zahlreiche Dialekte, jedoch kein „Österreichisch“. / Pichler, Erika; Newerkla, Stefan-Michael (Interviewee); Elspaß, Stephan (Interviewee).

In: Die Presse, 25.06.2022.

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Newspaper/Magazine article

Slovenské dni vo Viedni. Seeber, Elena (Editorial Journalist); Newerkla, Stefan-Michael (Interviewee); Wambach, Viera (Interviewee) et al.. 2022. Rádio Slovakia International : Slovenský rozhlasEvent: Slovenské dni 2022, Institut für Slawistik der Universität Wien, Wien, Austria.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Radio show

Buchteln, Ziegeln, Polka – Das böhmische Wien. Lackenberger, Anita (Director); Mader, Gerhard (Producer); Newerkla, Stefan-Michael (Interviewee). 2022. 3sat.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Film

Stefan Michael Newerkla : Mit Tschechisch zu Uni-Karriere. / Hohenbichler, Anna; Newerkla, Stefan-Michael (Interviewee).

In: Klub - Kulturní měsíčník Čechů a Slováků v Rakousku, Vol. 42, No. 5 (2022), 10.05.2022, p. 68.

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Newspaper/Magazine article

Dialekt-Reichtum | Konferenz der Sprachvarianten startet in Wien : Diese Vielfalt österreichischer Dialekte ist nicht nur im internationalen Vergleich eine Besonderheit, sie stiftet auch sprachliche Identität. Am Montag startet die "Conference on Language Variation in Europe" in Wien. / Zankel, Elisabeth (Editor); Elspaß, Stephan (Interviewee); Newerkla, Stefan-Michael (Interviewee) et al.

In: Kleine Zeitung, 10.04.2022.

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Newspaper/Magazine article

«Auf» statt «in Urlaub» : Wie sich Sprachen in Österreich beeinflussen. Garherr, Ines (Editorial Journalist); Elspaß, Stephan (Interviewee); Newerkla, Stefan-Michael (Interviewee) et al.. 2022. Wien : APA-ScienceEvent: 11th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, online, Wien, Austria.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication

Stefan Michael Newerkla : Mit Tschechisch zu Uni-Karriere. / Hohenbichler, Anna; Newerkla, Stefan-Michael (Interviewee).

In: Niederösterreichische Nachrichten, Vol. 2022, No. 14, 06.04.2022, p. 28-29.

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Newspaper/Magazine article

E-Mail-Verteiler hilft Menschen in der Ukraine. Maurnböck-Mosser, Ute (Editorial Journalist); Newerkla, Stefan-Michael (Interviewee); Ronzheimer, Hanna (Director). 2022. ORF Radio Oe1 : Österreichischer Rundfunk.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Radio show

Zivilgesellschaftlich - FALTER.maily #758. / Panzenböck, Stefanie; Newerkla, Stefan-Michael (Interviewee).

In: Falter. Stadtzeitung für Wien, No. 758, 14.03.2022.

Publications: Other contribution to periodical › Newspaper/Magazine article

Germanic and Slavic Contact: Lexicon. / Newerkla, Stefan-Michael.

Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online. ed. / Marc L. Greenberg; Lenore A. Grenoble. Leiden : Brill, 2022. (Encyclopedia of slavic languages and linguistics online).

Publications: Contribution to book › Entry for reference work › peer-review

Tyrnavia erudita III / Vzdelaná Trnava 3 : Resumé. / Juríková, Erika; Kordoš, Jozef; Newerkla, Stefan-Michael (Translator).

2 p. Trnava : Mesto Trnava. 2022, Translation of Summary. (Tyrnavia erudita, Vol. III).

Publications: Other publication › Translation

Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Stefan-Michael Newerkla
University professor (UG 2002 § 98)
Department of Slavonic Studies
Department for Teacher Education
E-mail: stefan.newerkla@univie.ac.at
Direct phone: +43-1-4277-42820
Web address: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/stefan.newerkla

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Curriculum vitae

Born in Horn, Lower Austria in 1972.
Married. Three children.

Education and Professional Career:

since 2004: Full Professor of West Slavic Linguistics at the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)
2003 - 2004: Assistant Professor of West Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)
2003: Postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) in West Slavic Linguistics at the University of Vienna (Austria)
2000 - 2003: Postdoc Researcher in the FWF project P13857–G03 on Czech-German-Slovak language contact at the University of Vienna (Austria)
1997 - 2003: Lecturer at the Department of Slavonic Studies and Department for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)
1999 - 2000: Tutor of Pedagogy at the Department of Education Sciences at the University of Vienna (Austria)
1998 - 1999: Teacher of Czech and English at the HTBLA and HBLA in Hollabrunn (Austria)
1997 - 1998: Doctoral studies (Dr. phil.) in Czech Studies and Pedagogy at the University of Vienna (Austria)
1997 - 1998: Pre-doc Researcher in the research project "Sprachpolitik und Sprachwirklichkeit in den slawischsprachigen Provinzen der Habsburgermonarchie von Maria Theresia bis 1914" at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Vienna (project leaders: Prof. Michael Metzeltin and Prof. Rosita Schjerve-Rindler) (Austria)
1992 - 1996: Graduate degree (Mag. phil.) in Slavonic Studies, English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Vienna (Austria)
1991: Summer school for Czech Language, Literature and Culture, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
1983 – 1991: Grammar school Humanistisches Gymnasium Zwettl, Lower Austria
1979 – 1983: Primary school Volksschule Groß Gerungs, Lower Austria

Personal Website

Research Interests

West Slavic linguistics (contact linguistics, language geography, historical sociolinguistics)
History of language contact between Slavic languages, German and Hungarian
Central Europe as a language area – Austriacisms and internationalisms
Czech and Slovak National Revival and the role of Vienna
Language education in the Habsburg monarchy

Overview of Research Projects

Memberships

since 4/2018: Full Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
since 4/2014: Corresponding Member in Austria of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
since 4/2010: Member of the Academy Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)

Administrative Duties

2022 – 2026: Member of the Academy Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria)
2022 – 2025: Member of the International Board of Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Republic)
2013 – 2025: Member of the Science Council of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
2022 – 2026: Member of the Science Council of the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
2022 – 2024: Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)
2018 – 2022: Deputy Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)
2010 – 2016: Chairperson of the Curriculum Committee of the Senate of the University of Vienna (Austria)
2009 – 2016: Member of the Senate of the University of Vienna (Austria)
2009 – 2013: Chairperson of the Steering Group for Teacher Education of the University of Vienna (Austria)
2005 – 2008: Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)
2004 – 2005: Deputy Head of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria)

Overview of all Administrative Duties (in German)

Participation in Appointment Comittees and Boards of Post Doctoral Qualification at the University of Vienna

Teaching

Course Overview

Journal Editing Roles

Overview of Journal Editing Roles

The utilisation of the lexicographical work of the Viennese professor of Czech J. V. Zlobický in Jungmann's Czech-German Dictionary

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

21 Sep 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Moravian Empire (Moravian Empire, Great Moravia, Old Moravia, Mojmirid Moravia), its origins and history, the Slavs and their languages, the development of the West Slavic group and Slavic language traces in geographical designations of present-day Austria

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

13 Sep 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Opening of the Annual Conference of the Literary and Cultural Studies Committee of the Austrian and Hungarian Academies of Sciences on "Conflict and Conflict Moderation in Central Europe"

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

7 Sep 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Multilingualism in the Habsburg Monarchy and Slavic Linguistic Heritage in German in Austria

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Keynote speaker)

25 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Languages divide and connect. The common linguistic heritage of German, Czech and other neighbouring languages

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

4 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

German – Czech – Yiddish. Language Mixing in Eastern Austria

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

7 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Between Knaanic and Maria Theresa's Language Reforms. Spotlights on the older Czech and Slovak language history from its beginnings to the 18th century

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

31 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Depictions of Mary between Queen of Peace and Goddess of War - On the Politicisation of Mary in the Shadow of Imperial Power Interests

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

24 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Advances in PP06 – German and Slavic Languages in Austria: Aspects of Language Contact

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Speaker), Maria Schinko (Speaker) & Agnes Kim (Speaker)

21 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Presentation of the publications of the Standing Conference of Austrian and Czech Historians on Common Cultural Heritage (SKÖTH)

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker) & Luboš Velek (Invited speaker)

19 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Welcome and greetings on behalf of the SKÖTH

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

19 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Minorities in Austria from a Linguistic and Cultural Historical Perspective

Agnes Kim (Invited speaker) & Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

28 Sep 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Jesuits as Mediators of Multilingualism: Language teaching at the Viennese Collegium Theresianum from its foundation in 1746 to the dissolution of the Jesuit Order in 1773

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

22 Sep 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Follow-up and discussion on the topic Identity and Delimitation Ukraine – Russia

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

10 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Identity and Delimitation Ukraine – Russia

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

9 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Czech language teaching and multilingualism at schools in the Czech lands in the 17th and 18th centuries

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

28 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Opening remarks by the Austrian Co-Chairperson of the Standing Conference of Austrian and Czech Historians with respect to the Common Cultural Heritage (SKÖTH) at the book presentation followed by a panel discussion "Vom 20. Jahrhundert ins neue Jahrtausend. Österreich und die Tschechoslowakei/Tschechien 1986–2016“, edited by Hildegard Schmoller, Miroslav Kunštát and Monika Březinová (= Schriftenreihe der SKÖTH, volume 4) and "Demokratische Monarchie, undemokratische Republik? Kontinuitäten und Brüche zwischen Monarchie und Republik in Mitteleuropa", edited by Lukáš Fasora, Miroslava Květová, Richard Lein and Ondřej Matějka (= Schriftenreihe der SKÖTH, volume 5)

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

20 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Annual Conference of the Literature and Cultural Studies Committee of the Austrian and Hungarian Academies of Sciences 2022 – "Small Town and Village Milieus in Central Europe"

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

19 May 2022 → 21 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Feschak between loan lexis and loan morphology: On the question of the productivity of the suffix -ák in German (in Austria)

Agnes Kim (Speaker) & Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Contributor)

12 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The Common Linguistic Heritage of the Danube Monarchy

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

11 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Slavic Studies 2022

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Contributor)

6 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Vědecká exkurze – Projekt tří univerzit: Ostrava – Ústí nad Labem – Vídeň | Přivítání

Naděžda Salmhoferová (Speaker), Markéta Zahradníčková (Contributor) & Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Contributor)

3 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Austria as a showcase of internal and external multilingualism

Stephan Elspaß (Keynote speaker) & Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Keynote speaker)

11 Apr 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Ukraine is not Russia: the philological perspective

Michael Moser (Keynote speaker), Alois Woldan (Invited speaker), Stefan Simonek (Invited speaker) & Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Contributor)

9 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Challenges of loanword research in Eastern Central Europe on the basis of examples from the German-Slavic contact area (with special consideration of Czech and Slovak)

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

11 Jan 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Inauguracja Konferencje – Wystąpienie

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

22 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Greeting statement by the Austrian Co-Chairperson of the Standing Conference of Austrian and Czech Historians with Respect to the Common Cultural Heritage (SKÖTH)

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

16 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

FSS discusses....Sea protection between science and politics

Alice Vadrot (Invited speaker) & Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Contributor)

9 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

How tolerance-intended language laws led to national segregation. The erosion of the German school system in Plzeň / Pilsen in the long 19th century

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

20 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

PP06 – German and the Slavic Languages in Austria: Aspects of Language Contact

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Speaker), Agnes Kim (Speaker) & Maria Schinko (Speaker)

10 Dec 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Cultural and Language Contact Areas in Eastern Central Europe

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

22 Oct 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Neighbours. Austrians and Czechs write history together

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

4 Jun 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Cultural and Language Contact Areas in Eastern Central Europe

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker) & Jaroslava Šotníková (Contributor)

3 Mar 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Cultural and Language Contact Areas in Eastern Central Europe in Consideration of Böhmakeln (i. e. Talking German with a Czech Accent)

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

29 Jan 2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Languages Separate and Connect – Czech and Austrian German in Language Contact

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

7 Dec 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Synchronous Linguistics at a Glance: Slovak - the grammatical category of the aspect (vid) in Slovak and its difficulties for German-speaking learners

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

3 Dec 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Report: Team Vienna

Agnes Kim (Invited speaker), Katharina Prochazka (Invited speaker), Maria Schinko (Invited speaker), Theresa Kalchhauser (Invited speaker) & Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

24 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Areály jazykového a kulturního kontaktu ve střední Evropě a česko-rakouské styčné body – Области языковых и культурных контактов в Центральной Европе и чешско-австрийские точки соприкосновения

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

23 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Славистика в Австрии и в Чешской Республике – Slavistika v Rakousku a v České republice

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker), Fedor Poljakov (Invited speaker) & Michaela Pešková (Contributor)

22 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Language Contact and Böhmakeln (a dreadful way of speaking German with a Czech accent)

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

16 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

PP05 – "German in the context of the other languages in the Habsburg State (19th century) and the 2nd Republic of Austria"

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

4 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

PP06 – "German and Slavic Languages in Austria: Aspects of Language Contact"

Stefan-Michael Newerkla (Invited speaker)

4 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science