Press
Press converage of Hans Boas

 

2009

Hans Boas is interviewed about Texas German culture and heritage by the German news magazine STERN. Click here for copy of the article (in German)

2008

TGDP is featured in the Wilson County News. Click here for article in PDF.

The TGDP is featured in DER SPIEGEL, Germany's leading news magazine. Click here for the article (in German).

TGDP is featured in "Unterricht Englisch" (Teaching English), a prominent magazine for English school teachers in Germany. Click here (article in German).

2007

First TGDP newsletter is published. Click here for an electronic version.

Article in Directions/The Magazine of the Texas Hill Country reports on the TGDP. Click here for the article.

Article in Fort-Worth Star-Telegram reports on the TGDP. Click here for the article.

TGDP featured in Austinist. Click here.

Article on the Texas German Dialect Project is distributed by the Associated Press. It is featured in more than 70 newspapers in the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., and France. Click here for article. Click here for the interactive video (search for Texas German).

Article in Austin-American Statesman reports on the TGDP as a part of an overview of research projects at UT Austin. A video about the TGDP explains the goals of the project. Click here for the video.

Hans Boas receives the Hugo-Moser Prize for Germanic Linguistics for his work on Texas German. The prize is awarded by the Institut für Deutsche Sprache ("Institute for the German Language"), a federally-funded research institute concerned with the documentation and analysis of contemporary German.

TGDP publication: "From the Field to the Web: Implementing Best-practice Recommendations in Documentary Linguistics" (Hans C. Boas) appears in the journal Language Resources and Evaluation. Click here for the article.

Story about Texas German airs on KUT Radio. Click here for the sound file.

2006

Article in Houston Chronicle reports on TGDP interviews in Fredericksburg. Click here for article text.

Hans Boas is interviewed about Texas German for the show "As it happens" (produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Company), which airs on many public radio stations across the U.S. Click here to listen to the interview.

News release about the TGDP on the UT Austin home page, please click here.

Article in San Antonio Express-News reports on the fading German language in the Hill Country. For article, click here.

Article in Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post reports on TGDP fieldwork in Doss, on January 12, 2006. Please click here.

2005

Two articles on the Texas German Dialect Project appear in the San Antonio Express-News. Please click here and here.

TGDP-presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society/Linguistic Society of America (Oakland, CA): "What happened to Texas German?" (Hans C. Boas) For a report, please see: http://www.slate.com/id/2112150/

2004

Another article in the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung.

Preliminary fieldwork begins in Crawford. For a newspaper article in the Clifton Record, click here for PDF.