Interview at hr-iNFO Kultur with Helmut Weiß (June 07, 2023): Arzt, Maurer, Lehrer: Der Streit um das generische Maskulinum
Interview in Münchner Merkur No. 118 with Ewa Trutkowski and Helmut Weiß (May 24, 2023): “Gendern wird nur als Relikt bleiben”
Article in SZ about the paper by Weiß and Trutkowski on the generic masculine in Old High German (April 21, 2023)
Article in DER SPIEGEL about the paper by Weiß and Trutkowski on the generic masculine in Old High German (April 15, 2023)
Article in FAZ.NET about the paper by Weiß and Trutkowski on the generic masculine in Old High German (March 30, 2023)
Press release at the Goethe University about the article by Weiß and Trutkowski on the generic masculine in Old High German (March 30, 2023)
The Goethe University issued a press release on the article by Weiß & Trutkowski:
https://www.puk.uni-frankfurt.de/134784059/Generische_Maskulinum_schon_im_Althochdeutschen_vorhanden
Article about Kathryn Barnes’s research on ideophones in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (March 01, 2023)
In the category “Streiflicht” the Süddeutsche Zeitung mentions the research by Kathryn Barnes on ideophones:
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/streiflicht-1.5760769?reduced=true
Article about Kathryn Barnes’s research on ideophones in the FAZ (March 01, 2023)
An article about the research by Kathryn Barnes on ideophones has been published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung under the heading “Rhein-Main”:
Interview with Kathryn Barnes on her research on ideophones at HR2 (February 22, 2023)
Kathryn Barnes gave an interview on HR2’s afternoon program about her research on ideophones:
https://www.hr2.de/programm/sendezeiten/am-nachmittag,epg-am-nachmittag-1664.html
https://www.hessenschau.de/kultur/ratzfatz-und-plitschplatsch-goethe-uni-startet-forschungsprojekt-zu-ideophonen,audio-78530.html
Report about Kathryn Barnes’s research about ideophones (February 02, 2023)
The “Aktuelles” section on the Goethe University website reports on the research of our colleague Kathryn Barnes on the semantics and pragmatics of ideophones:
Report about the ViCom in the current issue of “Forschung Frankfurt” (May 05, 2022)
In the current issue of the science magazine of the Goethe University “Forschung Frankfurt”, an interesting article was published about visual communication and gesture research. The paper is referring to the current DFG funded research project “Visual Communication“ led by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ebert (Goethe-Universität) and Prof. Dr. Markus Steinbach (Universität Göttingen)(starting at p.45):
https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/118615041.pdf
Link to the website of the project “Visual Communication“: https://vicom.info
Interview with Helmut Weiß on Sat1 (Mai 02, 2022)
Prof. Helmut Weiß was interviewed by Sat1 about the German words “Neger” und “Mohr”. The interview was broadcast on May 02, 2022on Sat1.
Link to the Interview
Study by Ewa Trutkowski and Helmut Weiß mentioned in “Welt” (March 07, 2022)
Ewa Trutkowski & Helmut Weiß:
Seit 1000 Jahren können Frauen auch Sünder, Richter und Freunde sein.
Welt online
The commentary mentions a study by Trutkowski & Weiß about the history of the generic masculine in German, which investigates the actual historical language use for the first time. The result of the study is that the gender neutral use of masculine forms is not new in German but has been used already in Old High German.