Academic Co-ordinator, Language Centre

Junior Deputy Head,
School of Languages, Linguistics and Film

Acting Deputy Director,
Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations

Room: 1.28 Francis Bancroft Building
Tel: (+44) 020 7882 8321
Fax: (+44) 020 8980 5400
email: f.pfalzgraf@qmul.ac.uk

Office hours:
Please email Dr Pfalzgraf to make an appointment.

Research Interests / Potential Doctoral Proposals

I would be happy to receive applications for potential doctoral proposals in any of my research areas:

My main area of research is the application of discourse analysis, especially concerning the influence of English upon German, and the related subject of Linguistic Purism (the latter field being understood in its widest sense and with both a synchronic and diachronic focus). I also conduct research on the relationships between politics, language, and culture. My most recent work concerns discourses of foreignness in school books 1933-45.

Affiliations

• Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations; Acting Deputy Director and Convenor for Language & Linguistics
• External Examiner for German at the University of Greenwich
• Language Co-ordinator (German) 2010/11 at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
• Research Fellow 2010 at the Georg-Eckert-Institute
• Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS); chair of the London/UK branch
• Member of the Editing Board of the journal Germanistische Mitteilungen
• The Philological Society
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
• The Society for Germanic Linguistics (SGL)
• The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) at the LSE
• Reading Primers Special Interest Group of the International Society for Historical and Systematic Research On Schoolbooks
• European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA)
• Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS; formerly CUTG)
• The Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS)

Publications

Monographs

• Neopurismus in Deutschland nach der Wende. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2006. (Publication fully financed by the Austrian Ministry for Education, Science and Culture). ISBN 978-3-631-54854-7.

Reviewed in:

Studia Neophilologica 79:1/2007, pp. 92-95 (Göran Inghult). Germanistik 48:3-4/2007, pp. 620-621 (Ryszard Lipczuk). MLR 104:1/2009, pp. 219-220 (Felicity Rash).

• Working title: Sprachpurismus in Österreich und der Schweiz. Currently in preparation.

Edited Volumes

• Englischer Sprachkontakt in den Varietäten des Deutschen / English Language in Contact with Varieties of German. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2009 (Österreichisches Deutsch. Sprache der Gegenwart Vol. 12). ISBN 978-3-631-58132-2. Publication substantially supported by the Austrian Ministry for Education, Science and Culture.
• Anglo-German Linguistic Relations (with Felicity Rash). Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2008. (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Reihe A, Band 98). ISBN 978-3-03911-656-0.

  Articles

• "Anglizismen als Thema der Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachkritik". Aptum. Zeitschrift für Sprachkritik und Sprachkultur 2/2011, pp. 160-176. ISSN 1614-905X.
• "Ausländer, Fremde(s) und Minderheiten in deutschen Fibeln 1933–1945". Muttersprache 3/2011, pp. 161-192. ISSN 0027-514X.
• "Linguistic Purism in the History of the German Language". Geraldine Horan, Nils Langer & Sheila Watts (eds). Landmarks in the History of the German Language. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2009. (British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature Vol. 52), pp. 137-168. ISBN 978-3-03911-890-8.
• "Sprachpurismus und Globalisierung". Englischer Sprachkontakt in den Varietäten des Deutschen / English Language in Contact with Varieties of German. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2009. (Österreichisches Deutsch. Sprache der Gegenwart Vol. 12), pp. 215-225. ISBN 978-3-631-58132-2.
• "Introduction" (with Felicity Rash). Falco Pfalzgraf & Felicity Rash (eds.). Anglo-German Linguistic Relations. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2008. (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Reihe A, Band 98), pp. 9-11. ISBN 978-3-03911-656-0.
• "Bestrebungen zur Einführung eines Sprachschutzgesetzes seit der Deutschen Vereinigung". German Life and Letters 61:4/2008, pp. 451-469. ISSN 0016-8777.
• "Einstellungen zu Fremdwörtern und Anglizismen. Anmerkungen zu einer Repräsentativerhebung des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache" (with Torsten Leuschner). Germanistische Mitteilungen 64/2006, pp. 85-107. ISSN 0771-3703.
• "Auffassungen von Laien zum Gebrauch von Anglizismen im Deutschen". Carol Fehringer & Holger Briel (eds.). Field Studies. German Language, Media and Culture. CUTG Proceedings, vol. 5. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2005. pp. 29-49. ISBN 978-3-039-10309-6.
• "Recent Developments Concerning Language Protection Organisations and Right-Wing Extremism". German Life and Letters 56:4/2003, p. 398-409. ISSN 0016-8777.
• "Fremdwortdiskussion und Rechtsextremismus". German Life and Letters 56:1/2003, p. 102-116. ISSN 0016-8777.
  The publisher have declared this article as one of GLL's five highlights.

  Reviews

• "Wegera, Klaus-Peter & Schultz-Balluff, Simone & Bartsch, Nina. Mittelhochdeutsch als fremde Sprache: Eine Einführung für das Studium der germanistischen Mediävistik. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 2011." Book review. Currently in preparation for Germanistische Mitteilungen (2012). ISSN 0771-3703.
• "Sommerfeldt, Karl-Ernst. Was ist dem Bürger zuzumuten? Sprachpflege im 21. Jahrhundert. (Sprache - System und Tätigkeit.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009." Book review. Zielsprache Deutsch 2:38/2011, pp. 98-92. ISSN 0341-5864.
  
• "Schröter, Melani/Carius, Björn. Vom politischen Gebrauch der Sprache - Wort, Text, Diskurs. (= Leipziger Skripten - Einführungs- und Übungsbücher.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2009." Book review. Germanistische Mitteilungen 72/2010, pp. 136-138. ISSN 0771-3703.
• "James, Peter & Kaufman,  David. Studying and working in Germany. A student guide. Manchester: MUP, 2002". Book review. Deutsch: Lehren und Lernen 26/2002, p. 32. ISSN 1461-9245.

Other

• "Deutsch lehren und lernen mit dem Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (CAGCR)". Currently in preparation for Deutsch: Lehren und Lernen 46/2012. ISSN 1461-9245.
• "Deutsch lehren und lernen mit der Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS)". Accepted for Deutsch: Lehren und Lernen 45/2012. ISSN 1461-9245.
• Imagination in Romanen von Tim O'Brien. (Staatsexamen Thesis, 104 pages). Norderstedt: BOD, 2009. ISBN 978-3-8370-9220-2.

Organised Conferences

• International Conference "Perspectives on the 'Great' War / Rückblick auf den Ersten Weltkrieg", currently in preparation for 1-4 August 2014, co-organised with Prof Felicity Rash.
• International Conference "Anglo-German Linguistic Relations", 9-10 November 2007, co-organised with Prof Felicity Rash.
• International Conference "The Implementation of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) in UK Higher Education Institutions – Chances and Challenges", 24 November 2006, co-organised with Dr Susanne Frane.

Postgraduate Teaching & Supervision

I am currently developing a new MA in Language Teaching. I taught and supervised theses on the MA in Anglo-German Cultural Relations. Presently, I am co-supervising a PhD thesis.

Undergraduate Teaching

Nominated for the Drapers’ Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2008/09 and 2009/10.

I currently teach the following course:

• GER/061 - German III (Translation into German)

In the past, I was either the organiser, teacher, or examiner for (part of) the following courses:

• GER/029 - German Phonetics and Phonology
• GER/212 - German II
• GER/215 - German II N
• GER/621 - Power and the German Language
• GER/626 - The Development of the German Language I
• GER/628 - Medieval German Language and Literature
• GER/026 - Introductory German, Part 1
• GER/027 - Introductory German, Part 2
• GER/051 - German I
• GER/100 - Introductory German
• GER/103 - German I Intensive
• GER/203 - German II Intensive
• GER/611 - Working with German Grammar
• GER/619 - Advanced Translation and Précis
• GER/999 - Year Abroad Assessment
• GER/061 - German III
• GER/081 - German for Business
• GER/083 - Advanced German for Business
• GER107 - Germany Then and Now: Literary Epochs, Cultural Trends and Conceptions of Language
• GER/117 - Foundations of German Studies
• GER/401 - German I N
• GER/615 - Introduction to German Studies

Administration

• Junior Deputy Head of the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film (SLLF)
• Acting Deputy Director, Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations (CAGCR)
• Convenor for Language & Linguistics, CAGCR
• Chair of the SLLF Innovation Forum
• Member of the Research Policy Committee, SLLF
• Member of the Teaching and Learning Committee, SLLF
• Member of the Language-Studies Co-ordinators' Committee, SLLF
• Webmaster, CAGCR

In the past, I had the following admin responsibilities:

• Admissions Tutor for all languages, SLLF
• Representative of the German Department on the SLLF Staff Student Liaison Committee
• Co-ordinator for the Joint Honours Programmes involving SLLF and Business & Management
• Webmaster, Department of German
• Webmaster, CAGCR
• Language-Studies Co-ordinator, German Department
• Chair of the Language-Studies Co-ordinators' Committee, SLLF
• Year Abroad Co-ordinator, German Department
• Chair of the Year Abroad Committee, SLLF

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