Irmengard Rauch

Irmengard Rauch. Ph.D. Michigan. Germanic Linguistics, historical (Gothic, Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old/Middle/Early New High German) and contemporary (New High German, Modern German Dialects); Linguistic Fieldwork; Socio-cultural and cognitive approaches to language variation and language change; Contrastive Analysis and Linguistic Methodology; Linguistic Archeology; Paralanguage and Semiotics (how verbal and non-verbal languages signify). Since 1982 at Berkeley (previously at Wisconsin, Pittsburgh, Illinois). Author: The Phonology/Paraphonology Interface and the Sounds of German across Time (2008); The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology. Readings 1st ed. (2003), 2nd ed. (2011); Semiotic Insights: The Data Do the Talking (1999); The Old Saxon Language: Grammar, Epic Narrative, Linguistic Interference (1992); The Old High German Diphthongization: A Description of a Phonemic Change (1967). Editor, three series: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics; Berkeley Models of Grammars; Studies in Old Germanic Languages and Literatures. Co-editor: Approaches in Linguistic Methodology (1967); Der Heliand (1973); Linguistic Method: Essays in Honor of Herbert Penzl (1979); The Signifying Animal:The Grammar of Language and
Experience (1980); Language Change (1983); The Semiotic Bridge: Trends from California (1989); On Germanic Linguistics: Issues and Methods(1992); Insights in Germanic Linguistics I (1995), II (1997); Across the Oceans (1995); Semiotics Around the World: Synthesis in Diversity I & II (1997); New Insights in Germanic Linguistics I (1999), II (2001), III (2002). Founder and co-editor: Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis, now in its nineteenth year. Articles in numerous scholarly journals and books. Contributed the article on the Old Saxon Bible Epic in Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia, and the article on Translations of the Bible in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Among her awards and honors are: Guggenheim Fellow; National Endowment for the Humanities / National Science Foundation grants; Outstanding Woman on Campus; Vice President / President, Semiotic Society of America; Distinguished Alumnus; President of the Fifth Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies; Life member, Linguistic Society of America / Modern Language Association; Honorary Member, American Association of Teachers of German; Who’ s Who in America; Founder/Director: Semiotic Circle of California, Bay Area German Linguistic Fieldwork Project, Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable. Festschrift: Interdigitations: Essays for Irmengard Rauch (1999). Inscribed as Eighth Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow 2011 at the 36th annual meeting of the SSA. Professor Rauch is a faculty member of the Germanic Linguistics Specialization composed of six upper division and thirteen graduate level courses. As such the Specialization imbues the Humanities with a scientific component; thus priority to the carefully rotated linguistics courses is given for achieving the essential competence in Germanic Linguistics.