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Leonard Bloomfield's "Language" (1933) is one of the most important books on linguistics and it is also one of the most frequently quoted. It is very unusual that a scientific book that has been on the market for 67 years has not become outdated. Unbelievably enough, it has never been translated into German, although Bloomfield spoke German like his mother-tongue. His family came from Austria an he specialized in Germanic linguistics.


This edition of ,Language" aims to fill this gap and furthermore tries to reflect Bloomfield's ideas in the light of modem linguistics. Therefore it is not a mere translation but a commentated reader , of Bloomfield's ,,Language" and a scientific publication in its own right.

Linguistics, structuralism, history of science, Leonard Bloomfield, behaviourism --- Linguistik, Strukturalismus, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Leonard Bloomfield, Behaviourismus

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Mediengewalt ist immer wieder ein Thema öffentlicher Debatten. Insbesondere nach spektakulären Amokläufen taucht regelmäßig die Frage auf, ob Medien ihre Nutzer zu Gewalttätern programmiert und so die Tat verursacht haben. Dabei ist der kausale Zusammenhang alles andere als geklärt: Obwohl die empirische Mediengewaltforschung mit großem Aufwand betrieben wird, hat sie bis heute keine konsensfähige Antwort gefunden. Diese Studie sucht keine weitere Lösung, sondern fragt, wie sich die Kausalformel »Mediengewalt« historisch herausgebildet hat und welcher Gewinn darin liegt, die Mediengewalt-Debatte beständig mit ungeklärtem Wissen zu versorgen.

Mediengewalt --- Wissenschaftsgeschichte --- Diskursgeschichte --- Medien --- Gewalt --- Mediengeschichte --- Medienwissenschaft --- History of Science --- Media --- Violence --- Media History --- Media Studies

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This edited volume, for the first time, presents examples for three categories of university courses in teaching the history of technology and science: introductory courses, object-oriented teaching and interdisciplinary teaching. The resulting overview encourages to experiment with new formats in teaching the history of technology and science, to foster exchange on such efforts and, not the least, to more comprehensively appreciate engagement in university teaching.

Technikgeschichte, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Didaktik, Forschendes Lernen, Lehrveranstaltungen,History of Technology, History of Science, Didactics, Research-Oriented Teaching, University Courses

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At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, a new sub-field of physics and chemistry emerged centering on radioactivity. Its disciplinary structures were slow to crystallize. The early phase of this field was characterized by substantial international exchange between the European centers in Vienna, Paris, Berlin and Cambridge and a concomitant high degree of transdisciplinarity. Research on radioactivity was also marked by an unusual openness in respect to gender and gender politics. The volatile political and social context of nuclear research, which abruptly changed several times, acted to further, impede or block these initiatives to transcend diverse boundaries in science, politics, and society. The two central questions of the present project are: How did the agendas and foci of Austrian nuclear research, and the styles of work of the scientists, change within the framework of international cooperation and competition? How were these developments dynamically linked with the political, social and cultural shifts in European history in the 20th century? 
The historical analysis starts with the founding of the Vienna Institute for Radium Research (IRR), including the institutes for physics at the University of Vienna that worked in close cooperation with the IRR. The period under investigation extends from the late years of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire to World War I, the era of "Red Vienna," the "state of estates" (Ständestaat) and the Nazi dictatorship, down to the full restoration of Austrian sovereignty in 1955. The study will include systematic transnational comparisons with the other centers of European nuclear research, based in part on existing literature from the history of science, as well as exact reconstructions of the bilateral and multilateral cooperative links and relations with the international scientific community. In this way, the proposed project is expected to go beyond the historical reconstruction of nuclear research in Austria and shed light on the importance of nationality and internationality, both for framing politics and as mental and cultural points of reference for the behavior and actions of the scientific actors and the production of scientific knowledge under shifting constellations of war and peace, democracy and dictatorship.

Institute for Radium Research, nuclear research in Austria, History of science, National Socialism , The Cold War --- Radiuminstitut, Kernforschung in Österreich, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Nationalsozialismus, Wissenschaftskooperation, Kalter Krieg

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The present volume contains a critical suvey of entries collected from periodicals – learned journals and entertaining weeklies which were published in Vienna during the 1st half of the 19th century concerning the field of investigation which is the historical region of present day Czech Republic back then part of the Habsburg Empire with Vienna as the capital. The material collected in the present volume does cover the fields “Religion”, “Law”, “Area studies”, “Political economy”, “Natural sciences and mathematics” thus completing the study with three parts already in print: part I (2011) “Literature and literary history”; part II (2013) “Linguistics”, “Philosophy, esthetics, rethorics”,“Historiography”, “Education”; part III (2014) “The Arts”. An index will be available online once the book is released, a general index in a print version will be provided in time.

Historical press research – Viennensia – Bohemica - history of Science, Religion, Law – Area studies – Communictions research - Public opinion --- Historische Zeitschriftenforschung – Viennensia – Bohemica – Wissenschaftsgeschichte – Landeskunde – Wirtschaftsgeschichte – Kommunikationsforschung