Bernhard Gröschel (19 June 1939 – 4 October 2009) was a German

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and

slavist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was ...

Biography

Bernhard Gröschel studied

Slavic Studies Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or ...

General Linguistics Theoretical linguistics is a term in linguistics that, like the related term general linguistics, can be understood in different ways. Both can be taken as a reference to the theory of language, or the branch of linguistics that inquires into the ...

Phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians ...

and

Communication Studies Communication studies (or communication science) is an academic discipline that deals with processes of human communication and behavior, patterns of communication in interpersonal relationships, social interactions and communication in differ ...

at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

. In 1967 he received his Ph.D. in

Bonn Bonn () is a federal city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located on the banks of the Rhine. With a population exceeding 300,000, it lies about south-southeast of Cologne, in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region. This ...

and continued to work there as a

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and

lecturer Lecturer is an academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. They may also conduct re ...

. From 1977 to 2004 he worked at the Department of General Linguistics at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (, until 2023 , WWU) is a public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over 120 fields of study in 15 departments, it is Germany's ...

. Gröschel is best known for his

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''Das Serbokroatische zwischen Linguistik und Politik'' (

Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian ( / ), also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually i ...

between

Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and

Politics Politics () is the set of activities that are associated with decision-making, making decisions in social group, groups, or other forms of power (social and political), power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of Social sta ...

Selected publications

* ''Die Sprache Ivan Vyšenśkyjs: Untersuchungen und Materialien zur historischen Grammatik des Ukrainischen''. Slavistische Forschungen, Bd. 13 (in German). Köln and Wien: Böhlau Verlag. 1972, p. 384. . . . * ''Materialistische Sprachwissenschaft''. Pragmalinguistik, Bd. 15 (in German). Weinheim and Basel: Verlagsgruppe Beltz. 1978, p. 239. . * ''Sprachnorm, Sprachplanung und Sprachpflege''. Studium Sprachwissenschaft, Bd. 6 (in German). Münster: Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität. 1982, p. 232. * (with Elena Parwanowa) ''Russisch-deutsches Wörterbuch der linguistischen Terminologie: Band 1 und 2''. Studium Sprachwissenschaft, Beiheft 3 (in German). Münster: Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität, 1985, p. 935. * ''Die Presse Oberschlesiens von den Anfängen bis zum Jahre 1945: Dokumentation und Strukturbeschreibung''. Schriften der Stiftung Haus Oberschlesien: Landeskundliche Reihe, Bd. 4 (in German). Berlin: Gebr. Mann. 1993, p. 447. . * ''Studien und Materialien zur oberschlesischen Tendenzpublizistik des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts''. Schriften der Stiftung Haus Oberschlesien: Landeskundliche Reihe, Bd. 5 (in German). Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1993, p. 219. . * ''Themen und Tendenzen in Schlagzeilen der Kattowitzer Zeitung und des Oberschlesischen Kuriers 1925 - 1939: Analyse der Berichterstattung zur Lage der deutschen Minderheit in Ostoberschlesien''. Schriften der Stiftung Haus Oberschlesien: Landeskundliche Reihe, Bd. 6 (in German). Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1993, p. 188. . * (with Clemens-Peter Herbermann and Ulrich Hermann Waßner) ''Sprache & Sprachen: Teil 1: Fachsystematik der allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachensystematik; mit ausführlichen Terminologie- und Namenregistern'' (in German). Wiesbaden:

Harrassowitz Verlag Harrassowitz Verlag is a German academic publishing house, based in Wiesbaden. It publishes about 250 scholarly books and periodicals per year on Oriental, Slavic, and Book and Library Studies. The publishing house is part of the company Otto Ha ...

, 1997, p. 630. . * (with Clemens-Peter Herbermann and Ulrich Hermann Waßner) ''Sprache & Sprachen: Teil 2: Thesaurus zur allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachenthesaurus'' (in German). Wiesbaden:

, 2002, p. 389. . *
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Biography

Selected publications

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