since November 2009

Research Associate in the " German Legal Dictionary " research project at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
URL: http://www.deutsches-rechtswoerterbuch.de

April 1 – September 30, 2022

Acting Chair of the Department of German Linguistics at the University of Paderborn

April 1 – September 1, 2020

Acting Chair of the Department of Historical Linguistics at the University of Hamburg

on a regular basis since 2004

Lecturer in German Linguistics at the Department of German Studies at Heidelberg University

on a regular basis since 2013

Lecturer in German Linguistics at the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna

September 1996 to October 1996

Lecturer in German and Descriptive German Grammar at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Ivan Franko State University of Lviv

March 1998 to March 2003

Research Assistant at the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim (Lexicon Department) on the projects “Historical Corpora” and “Knowledge of Words” (led by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Haß-Zumkehr)

March 2002 to April 2004

Research Associate at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities the German Legal Dictionary project (led by Dr. Heino Speer)

April 2003 to March 2005

Lecturer in German Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Mannheim

October 2004 to December 2005

Research Associate at the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim as part of the elexiko project ( led by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Haß-Zumkehr and Dr. Annette Klosa)

October 2006 to February 2007

Lecturer in German Linguistics and German as a Foreign Language at the University of Wrocław (Poland), Department of German Studies

March 2007 to October 2009

Research Associate in the Goethe Dictionary research project at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Tübingen Office

• Ludwik Fleck and His “Thinking Collectives”: The (Lviv) Context in Which His Ideas on Thinking Styles and Thinking Collectives Emerged, and Their Interdisciplinary Reception
  Duration: April 1 – December 31, 2019, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Project completed.
  For documentation, seehttps://www.lvivcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Flek_book.pdf
• Zygmunt Łempicki: Between German and Polish German Studies in the 1920s and 1930s (since 2020)

International Symposium:
Diversity – Dynamism – Hybridity. Linguistic Identity(ies) in Multilingual Contexts

March 20–21, 2025, Heidelberg University

Conference website

Memberships                                     

• Society for the History of the German Language (GGSG)
  http://www.germanistische-sprachgeschichte.de/
• HISON Network (Historical Sociolinguistics Network)
• International Working Group on Historical Urban Language Research (HSSF)
• The German-Ukrainian Academic Society - The UKRAINE Network
• European Society for Phraseology ( EUROPHRAS)

Fellowships                                        

• Paul Celan Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna (March–June 2017)
• Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK), Vienna (March–June 2015)
• Fellow of the Research Training Group “Dynamics of Substandard Varieties” at Heidelberg University (2001–2003)
   

Appraisal Services & Expertise          

• Journal of German Linguistics (ZGL)
• Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics (LiLi)
• Journal “Studia Linguistica” (University of Wrocław, Poland)
• Series “Contributions to Intercultural German Studies” (Narr Francke Attempto Publishing House in Tübingen)
• VESNA – Journal of Austrian Onomastics (Vienna, Austria)
• (Re)digitization of the Austrian Weistümer at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna)

ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2557-1515

Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=de&user=o1K8V-8AAAAJ

Monographs
 

• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2025):Multilingualism in the City. A Linguistic-Historical and Sociocommunicative Study of Lviv/Lemberg, 1848–1918. Berlin: De Gruyter (German Linguistics series).
  DOI: 10.1515/9783111624495
  https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111624495/html#contents

• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2009): Phraseological Modifications and Their Functions in Text: A Study Based on the German-Language Press. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren (Series: Phraseology and Paremiology).

Reviews:

Piirainen, Elisabeth, in: *German as a Foreign Language*. Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching German to Foreigners, Issue 2/2011, pp. 123–124.
Häcker, Martina, in: Yearbook of Phraseology, ed . by , Koenraad Kuiper et al. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2010. pp. 198–203.

Editors / Anthologies
 

• Glaser, Elvira; Prinz, Michael; Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (eds.) (2021): Historical Code-Switching with German. Multilingual Practices in the History of Language. Berlin, etc.: de Gruyter.

Reviews:

Solling, Daniel (2022), in: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 123(2), pp. 236–243.
Krogull, Andreas (2023), in: Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, vol . 9, no. 1, 2023, pp. 183–188.
Roth, Kerstin (2023), in: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, vol. 145, no. 2.
 

• Bopp, Dominika; Roth, Kerstin; Ptashnyk, Stefaniya; Theoblad, Tina (eds.) (2020): Words—Signs of Change (Studia Linguistica Germanica, 137). Berlin, etc.: de Gruyter.
   
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya; Beckert, Ronny; Wolf-Farré, Patrick; Wolny, Matthias (eds.) (2016): Contemporary Language Contacts in the Context of Migration. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter.

Reviews:

Pecht, Nantke, in: Journal of Reviews in German Linguistics. Issue 2/2018 .
Page, Richard B., in: Yearbook of German-American Studies 52 (2017).
Langer, Nils, in: Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, Vol. 3/2018.
 

• Vogel, Friedemann / Luth, Janine / Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (eds.) (2016): Linguistic Approaches to Conflicts in European Language Areas. Corpus – Pragmatics – Controversy. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter.
   
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya / Hallsteinsdóttir, Erla / Bubenhofer, Noah (eds.) (2009): Corpora, Web, and Databases. Computer-Assisted Methods in Modern Phraseology and Lexicography/Corpora, Web, and Databases. Computer-Based Methods in Modern Phraseology and Lexicography. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren (Series: Phraseology and Paremiology).

Review:

Pon, Leonard, in: Jazikoslovlije/Linguistics, Vol. 11, No. 2, December 2010. Osijek, pp. 228–234.

Essays (by topic)

Historical sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language contact research
 

• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (forthcoming): Language and Identity of German Speakers in Galicia and Their Representation in the Media at the Beginning of the 20th Century. In: Yearbook of the Johann Andreas Schmeller Society.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2024): When the Subject of the Celebration Is Missing from the Archives … A Digression on the History of Language. In: Attig, Matthias; Jacob, Katharina; Müller, Marcus & Vogel, Friedemann (eds.): Network and Work. On Social Linguistic Action. Berlin, etc.: de Gruyter, pp. 149–160 (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111086514-012).
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2023): *The German People’s Gazette for Galicia as a Reflection of Identity Construction Among German Speakers and Debates on Language Ideology at the Beginning of the 20th Century*. In: Meier, Jörg (ed.): Multilingualism in the German-Language Press of Eastern Europe (= Yearbook of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe, Vol. 4/2023). Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, pp. 129–142.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2021): Between Code-Switching and Mixed Code: Multilingual Writing Practices in the Lviv Press of the 19th Century. In: Glaser, Elvira; Prinz, Michael & Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (eds.): Historical Code-Switching with German. Multilingual Practices in the History of Language. Berlin, etc.: de Gruyter, pp. 405–438.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2020): Language Variation in Multilingual Historical Settings. In: Lenz, Alexandra; Maselko, Mateusz (eds.): VARIATIONist Linguistics Meets CONTACT Linguistics. Vienna: V&R Vienna University Press, pp. 155–180.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2019): Borrowing, Code-Switching, and Fused Lects: Language Contact and Multilingual Practices from a Socio-Historical Perspective. In: Bülow, Lars; Fischer, Ann Kathrin; Herbert, Kristina (eds.): Dimensions of Linguistic Space: Variation – Multilingualism – Conceptualization (= Studies on the German Language in Austria, Vol. 45). Berlin, etc.: Peter Lang Verlag, pp. 213–232.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2018):* * Language Use and Language Shift at the University of Lviv in the Late 18th and First Half of the 19th Century. In: Prinz, Michael; Schiewe, Jürgen (eds.): Vernacular Scientific Communication. Contributions to the Emergence and Early History of Modern German Scientific Languages (Lingua Academica 1). Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, pp. 335–359.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2018): German in Lviv between 1905 and 1925 and Its Role in Education. In : Yearbook of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe. Special Issue on Language, Vol. 26/2016, ed. by Jörg Meier. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 99–120.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2018): The Role of the German Language in Austrian and Polish Galicia. In : Boeckh, Katrin (ed.): Galicia and the Galician Germans (1914–1940). 2018. Herne: Friends of the Martin Opitz Library, pp. 89–115.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2016): Language Contact Yesterday and Today: Research Questions, Methodological Approaches, and Areas for Further Research. In: Ptashnyk, Stefaniya / Beckert, Ronny / Wolf-Farré, Patrick / Wolny, Matthias (eds.): Contemporary Language Contacts in the Context of Migration. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pp. 61–76.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2016): Historical Language Contacts in a Multilingual City: Descriptive Challenges and Unresolved Issues (The Case of Lemberg in the 19th Century). In: Wich-Reif, Claudia (ed.): Historical Language Contact Research (Yearbook of Germanic Linguistic History 7). Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, pp. 235–263.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2015): German in Old Austria: On Multilingualism and Variation in the Habsburg Educational System in the Second Half of the 19th Century, Using the City of Lemberg as an Example. In: Lenz, Alexandra N.; Ahlers, Timo; Glauninger, Manfred M. (eds.): Dimensions of German in Austria. Variation and Varieties in a Social Context. Frankfurt am Main, etc.: Peter Lang Verlag, pp. 377–392.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2013): “Urban Languages from a Historical Perspective: A Description of Multilingualism in Lviv, 1848–1900.” In: Christoph Kolbeck, Reinhard Krapp, Paul Rössler (eds.): *Urban Language(s): Variation and Change*. * *. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pp. 95–110.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2013): Language Variation, Diglossia, and Language Conflicts in Discourse: A Linguistic Study of Galician Multilingualism in the Second Half of the 19th Century. In: Kratochvil, Alexander; Makarska, Renata; Schwittin, Katharina (eds.): Cultural Boundaries in Post-Imperial Spaces. Bielefeld: Transcript-Verlag, pp. 117–140.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2010): Variation and Historical Language Contact Research: The Case of the Multilingual City of Lviv. In: Gilles, Peter; Scharloth, Joachim; Ziegler, Evelyn (eds.): "Variatio delectat". Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Fits of Linguistic Variation. Festschrift for Klaus J. Mattheier on his 65th Birthday. Frankfurt am Main, etc.: Peter Lang, pp. 287–308.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2008): Languages in Conflict: A Discursive Analysis of Galician Polyglossia in Lviv Newspapers at the Turn of the 19th Century. In: Nekula, Marek; Bauer, Verena; Greule, Albrecht (eds.): German in Multilingual Urban Centers of Central and Eastern Europe. At the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Vienna: Praesens, pp. 139–162.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2007): Societal Multilingualism and Language Conflicts in Galicia in the 19th Century. In: Stephan Elspaß, Nils Langer, Joachim Scharloth, and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.): Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700–2000) (Studia Linguistica Germanica). Berlin, etc.: de Gruyter, pp. 437–448.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2005): “… National Language, […] the Faithful Mirror of Feelings and National Sentiment”: On Polyglossia in Galicia in the 19th Century. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Bavarian-Ukrainian Conference on German Studies, October 28–30, 2003, Munich. Lviv: Ivan Franko University, pp. 100–114.

Lexicology and Lexicography
 

• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2011): The German Legal Dictionary and Its Value for Research in Historical Semantics. In: Riecke, Jörg (ed.): Historical Semantics. Yearbook of German Linguistic History, Vol. 2. Berlin, New York, and others: de Gruyter, pp. 203–223.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2012): Borys Hrinchenko’s Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language. In: Ulrike Haß (ed.): Great Encyclopedias and Dictionaries of Europe: Historical Portraits of European Encyclopedias and Dictionaries. Berlin, etc.: de Gruyter, pp. 351–366.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2012): Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies. Edited by Volodymyr Kubijovyč. In: Ulrike Haß (ed.): Major Encyclopedias and Dictionaries of Europe: Historical Portraits of European Encyclopedias and Dictionaries. Berlin, etc.: de Gruyter, pp. 433–448.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2009): On Small Towns, Girls, and Other Little Words: An Insider’s Account of the Creation of the Goethe Dictionary. In: Literaturblatt, Issue 4/2009. Stuttgart: S. Hirzel Verlag, pp. 22–23.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2009): On the Beginnings of German-Ukrainian Lexicography (1849–1918). In: Bandini-König, Ditte; Kronauer, Ulrich (eds.): Fruits from the Tree of Knowledge. 100 Years Academy of Sciences and Humanities Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 2009. pp. 333–342.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2008): The Goethe Dictionary: A Tool for Research in Linguistic, Cultural, and Social History. In: Frick, Werner; Golz, Jochen; Meier, Albert (eds.): Goethe Yearbook 2008, pp. 273–279.

Lexicographical publications:

• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (co-author): Entries under the letter “S” in the *Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch*. In: *Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch*. Dictionary of Older German Legal Language. Published by Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, Weimar. Edited by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Vol. XII–XIII, 2010–2023.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (co-author): Entries in the Goethe Dictionary, sections L–N. In: Goethe Dictionary. Edited by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Academy of Sciences and Humanities Göttingen, and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. W. Kohlhammer Verlag. 2009–2014.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (co-author): Word entries in the elexiko Core Vocabulary. 2005. Electronic publication: http://www.elexiko.de.
   

History of Science

• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (forthcoming): Ludwik Fleck’s Epistemological Reflections on Language and the Communicability of Knowledge. In: Hahn, Hans-Joachim; Waldschmidt, Christine (eds.): Knowledge and Learning.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2021): On the Difficulty of Writing a Biography of Ludwik Fleck. In: Korn, Uwe Maximilian; Żarski, Krzysztof (eds.): Institutions – Practices – Biographies. Anchoring and Profiling German Studies Research and Teaching. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 197–208.
   

Phraseology and Phraseography

• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Traditional Formulations in Legal Practice: Historical Phraseology and Its Documentation in the German Legal Dictionary. In: Filatkina, N. et al. (eds.): Aspects of Historical Phraseology and Phraseography. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012. pp. 227–244.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: “Unstable” Fixed Phrases: On the Dynamics of the Phraseological Lexicon. In : Hermes: Journal of Linguistics. No. 35-2005. Aarhus: Aarhus School of Business, Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, 2005. pp. 77–95.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: How Hard Is the Phraseological Nut to Crack? Reflections on Phraseological Dictionaries from the Perspective of Ukrainian German Studies. In: Yearbook of German as a Foreign Language. Vol. 29, 2003. Munich: Iudicium Verlag, 2003. pp. 31–54.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Phraseological Substitution and Its Functions in Text. In: Wirkendes Wort. German Language and Literature in Research and Teaching. Issue 3/2001. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2001. pp. 435–454.
• Ptashnyk, Stefania: Phraseological Modifications: Terminological Problems [Ukr.]. In: Bulletin of Lviv University. Issue 9: Foreign Languages Series. Lviv: Lviv University Press, 2001. pp. 112–120.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: On the Concept of Phraseological Modifications. In: Kwartalnik neofilologiczny. Issue 3/2000. Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, 2000. pp. 301–310.
• Ptashnyk S.B.: Text-Constituting Functions of Phraseological Modifications in Newspaper Texts [Ukr.]. In: Scientific Bulletin of Chernivtsi University. Issue 98: Germanic Philology. Chernivtsi: Chernivtsi University Press, 2000. pp. 94–105.
• Ptashnik, S.B.: Pragmastylistic Functions of Phraseological Modifications in Text [Pragmastilistische Funktionen phraseologischer Modifikationen im Text – Russian]. In: Proceedings of the International Linguistic Conference “Problems of Semantic Description of Language and Speech Units,” Minsk, Nov. 10–12, 1998. Minsk, 1999. pp. 55–59.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Phraseological Modifications in the Language of the Press (using the weekly newspapers “Die Woche” and “Die Zeit” as examples). In: German Language in the Modern World. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference, Drohobych, May 7–9, 1998. Drohobych, 2000. pp. 62–67.

Miscellaneous

• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2022): The Depiction of the Ruthenian Language in the Galicia Volume of the Crown Prince’s Work.  In: Augustynowicz, Christoph; Hüchtker, Dietlind; Kuzmany, Börries (eds.): Pearls of Historical Reflection. Eastern Europe, Social-Historical Interventions, Imperial Comparisons. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 107–114.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2019): Media (Self-)References in the Galician Press from 1850 to 1865: A Comparison of the “Gazeta Lwowska” and the “Lemberger Zeitung.” In: Tancer, Josef (ed.): Media Self-References in the Press Network of the Habsburg Monarchy and Its Successor States. Vienna: LIT-Verlag, pp. 19–55.
• Vogel, Friedemann; Luth, Janine; Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (2016): Conflict and Conflict Resolution as Reflected in Language, or: A Plea for the Search for a Linguistic Contribution to Peace in Europe. In: Vogel, Friedemann; Luth, Janine; Ptashnyk, Stefaniya (eds.): Linguistic Approaches to Conflicts in European Language Areas. Corpus – Pragmatics – Controversy. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pp. 11–20.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Recommend or Prescribe? On the Formulation and Legitimization of Stylistic Norms in Practical Stylistics after 1945. In: Cirko, Leslaw (ed.): Studia Linguistica XXI: Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Wrocław, pp. 77–97.
• Ptashnyk, S. B.: On the Problem of Translating Ukrainian Ethnographic Realities [Ukr.]. In : Criteria for the Aesthetic Value of a Literary Text. Interuniversity Scientific Conference. Lviv, 1996. pp. 72–74.

Reviews and reports:

• Falkson, Katharina; Lemberg, Ingrid; Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: “Municipal Rights and Reforms of Municipal Law.” Conference held at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities April 3, 2019 , to April 5, 2019. Conference report. In: HSozKult (available online at https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-8281).
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Christian Andersen, Ulla Fix, and Jürgen Schiewe (eds.): Styles of Thinking in German Linguistics: Building Blocks of a History of the Discipline from the Perspective of Ludwik Fleck’s Theory of Science. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2018.” In: Wissenschaftlicher Literaturanzeiger Online 2019 (Review date: 02/18/2019).
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Book Review: “Denkler, Markus; Elspaß, Stephan; Hüpper, Dagmar & Topalović, Elvira (eds.) 2017. German in the 17th Century: Studies on Language Contact, Language Variation, and Language Change. Festschrift for Jürgen Macha. (Language—Literature and Studies in Linguistics/German Studies, Vol. 46). Heidelberg: Winter.” In: Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 2018.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Claudia Scharioth: Regional Speech and Identity. A Study of Language Use, Attitudes Toward Language, and Constructions of Identity Among Women in Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Hildesheim [et al.]: Georg Olms Verlag, 2015.” In: GERMANISTIK 2018 (forthcoming).
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya & Prinz, Michael: “Conference on ‘Historical Code-Switching with German’”. Conference Report. In: 2017 Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Heidelberg 2018, pp. 159–162.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Klemens Kaps: Uneven Development in Central Europe. Galicia between Transregional Interdependence and Imperial Politics (1772–1914) (= Studies in Social and Economic History, Vol. 37), Vienna: Böhlau 2015”. In: Journal of East Central European Studies, Issue 3, Vol. 66 (2017), pp. 430–432.
  Reprinted in: sehepunkte 17 (2017), No. 11; URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2017/11/31027.html
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Myth of Galicia. Edited by Jacek Purchla and the Wien Museum. Vienna: Metroverlag, 2015”. In: Journal of East Central European Studies, Issue 3, Vol. 65 (2016), pp. 436–437.
  Reprinted in: sehepunkte 16 (2016), No. 11; URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2016/11/29552.html
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Regiolect, Functiolect, Idiolect: The City and Its Languages. Edited by Anna Karin, Silvia Ulivi, and Claudia Wich-Reif. Bonn University Press, 2015.” In: GERMANISTIK, Vol. 56, No. 3-4, 2015, pp. 527-528.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Standard German in the 21st Century: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches with a Focus on Austria. Edited by Alexandra N. Lenz and Manfred M. Glauninger. Vienna University Press, 2015”. In: GERMANISTIK, Vol. 56, No. 3-4, 2015, pp. 534-535.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Felder, Ekkehard & Gardt, Andreas (eds.): Handbook of Language and Knowledge. Berlin, etc.: de Gruyter, 2015.” In: GERMANISTIK, Vol. 56, No. 1–2, 2015, p. 19.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Meier, Simon: Gesprächsideale. Normative Gesprächsreflexion im 20. Jahrhundert. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2013.” In: GERMANISTIK, Vol. 55, No. 1-2, 2014, pp. 60–61.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Eder, Ulrike: ‘Auf die mehrere Ausbreitung der teutschen Sprache soll fürgedacht werden’: German as a Foreign and Second Language in the Educational System of the Danube Monarchy during the Reigns of Maria Theresa and Joseph II. Vienna et al.: Studien Verlag, 2006.” In: Studia Linguistica XXXI, Wrocław 2012, pp. 165–168.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Ravida, Fausto: Graphemic-Phonological Analysis of Luxembourg Account Books. – Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.” In: GERMANISTIK, Vol. 53, No. 3–4, 2012, p. 374.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Kanzleisprachenforschung. Edited by Albrecht Greule, Jörg Meier, Arne Ziegler. – Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter, 2012.” In: GERMANISTIK, Vol. 53, No. 1–2, 2012, p. 31.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Eder, Ulrike: ‘Auf die mehrere Ausbreitung der teutschen Sprache soll fürgedacht werden’: German as a Foreign and Second Language in the Educational System of the Danube Monarchy during the Reigns of Maria Theresa and Joseph II. Vienna et al.: Studien Verlag, 2006.” In: Studia Linguistica, Issue XXXI/2012. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. pp. 165–167.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Scharloth, Joachim: Language Norms and Mentalities: A History of Language Consciousness in Germany from 1766 to 1785. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2005.” In: Journal of Reviews on German Linguistics. Vol. 1, No. 1/2009. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter. pp. 98–106.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Wrocław-Berlin: Building Bridges in German Studies within the German-Polish Dialogue / 2nd Congress of Wrocław German Studies. Edited by Bernd Balzer and Marek Halub. Wrocław – Dresden: Neisse-Verlag, 2006.” – Volume I: Linguistics. Edited by Franz Simmler and Eugeniusz Tomiczek. In: Studia Germanica Universitatis Vesprimiensis. Issue 2/2008. Vienna: Praesens Verlag. pp. 177–182.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: “Maitz, Péter
  ” In: Journal of Dialectology and Linguistics, Issue 2/2008 Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag. pp. 224–226.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Workshop “Modern Methods in Lexicography: Theory and Practice.” In: Sprachreport, Issue 2/2005. Published by the Institute for the German Language, Mannheim. pp. 15–17.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: “Hitting the Nail on the Head” – More or Less Fixed Phrases. Report from the 39th Conference of the Institute for the German Language. In: Deutsche Sprache: Journal of Theory, Practice, and Documentation. Issue 4/2002. Berlin: Erich Schmid Verlag. pp. 376–384.
  Reprinted in: (a) Sprachreport, Issue 2/2003. Edited by the Institute for the German Language. Mannheim. pp. 5–12.
  (b) Annual Report of the Institute for the German Language 2003. Mannheim. pp. 30–38.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: New Methods and Forms of Publication in Lexicology/Lexicography. In: Steyer, Kathrin (ed.): More or Less Fixed Word Combinations. Yearbook of the Institute for the German Language 2003. Berlin [et al.]: de Gruyter, 2003. pp. 439–444.
  Reprinted in: Sprachreport, Issue 2/2003. Published by the Institute for the German Language, Mannheim. pp. 29–32.
• Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: Review: Agnieszka Fraczek: On the History of German-Polish and Polish-German Lexicography (1772–1868). Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. 1999. In: Jaroszewski, Marek (ed.): Studia Germanica Gedanensia 9. Gdańsk, 2001. pp. 243–247.
• Fraczek, Agnieszka/Ptashnyk, Stefaniya: “Grammar in German Textbooks.” Germanists—Conference in Karpacz (September 5–7, 2000). In: Convivium. German Studies Yearbook Poland 2001. Bonn: German Academic Exchange Service, 2001. pp. 400–403.

Conference presentations (selection)
 

• "Explanation of Meaning in the Description of Technical Terminology in Historical Lexicography: A Fine Line Between Linguistic and Subject Matter Expertise." Presented at the GAL Conference 2023, Lexicography Section “Lexical Ambiguity vs. Lexicographical Disambiguation: Ambiguity in the Dictionary,” September 20–21, 2023, University of Mainz.
• “Language and Identity Among German Speakers in Galicia and Their Representation in the Media at the Beginning of the 20th Century.” Presented at the conference “Interethnic Interactions and Migration Patterns in Eastern Europe” at the University of Augsburg, November 17–18, 2022.
• “Multilingualism Between Image and Text: An Analysis Based on Lemberg Newspaper Texts.” Presented at the 27th Germanists’ Conference, “Ambiguities,” at the University of Paderborn, September 25–28, 2022.
   

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  “Code-switching, style shifting, and other types of multilingual practices: Does historical sociolinguistics need a differentiation?” Presented at the HiSoN conference “Macro and Micro Perspectives in Historical Sociolinguistics,” University of Murcia, Spain, June 1–3, 2022 (co-authored with Markus Schiegg, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg).
   

• “Text as a Contact Zone in a Multilingual Communication Community: Multilingual Practices in the Lemberg Press, 1848–1918.” Presented at the international workshop “Contact Zones in the Habsburg Monarchy and Its Successor States,” January 16–17, 2020, University of Innsbruck (Austria).
• “Life and Legacy between Lemberg, Basel, Chicago, and Ness Ziona: Ludwik Fleck and His Ideas on Thought Styles and Thought Collectives.” Presented at the conference “Between Kyiv and Vienna: Histories of People, Ideas, and Objects in Circulation and Motion,” December 4–7, 2019, IWM Vienna (Austria).
• “Reflections on Language and Identity in Mass Media Discourses in Galicia at the Turn of the Century.” Presented at the international conference “The Future of Language, The Future of the Nation,” September 24–26, 2019, University of Augsburg (Germany)
• “Multilingualism at the University of Lviv between 1772 and 1918: Upheavals and Continuities.” Presented at the conference of the Matthias Kramer Society, “Foreign Language Learning and Multilingualism in the Habsburg Monarchy in the Early Modern Period,” June 27–28, 2019, Vienna (Austria).
• “Reading Fleck as a Linguist and Translator: Some Remarks on Language Contact Phenomena, Language History, and Terminological Problems.” Presented at the international workshop “Ludwik Fleck and His ‘Thought Collectives’,” April 9–13, 2019, Lviv (Ukraine)
  URL: https://www.lvivcenter.org/en/conferences/conferences/3074-19-04-11-fleck/
• “The Habsburgs’ Language Policy and Its Influence on Institutional Language Practices: A Study of Higher Education in Austrian Lviv.” Presented at the international conference “Multilingualism in the Danube Monarchy (1848–1918): Knowledge—Rule—Social Practice,” October 10–13, 2018, Munich (Germany)
• “Multilingual Variation – A Historical Perspective.” Presented at the international conference “Variation Linguistics Meets Contact Linguistics,” May 20–23, 2018, in Ascona (Switzerland)
• “Linguistic Discontinuities and Continuities: The Sociolinguistic Situation at the University of Lviv in the Long 19th Century.” Presented at the DK Galicia conference “What Remains of Galicia? Continuities – Discontinuities – Perspectives,” April 19–21, 2018, Vienna (Austria)
• “Language Contact and Multilingual Practices in Institutional Settings: The University of Lviv in the Long 19th Century.” Presented at the international conference “German Abroad 3,” March 8–10, 2018, University of Erfurt (Germany)
• “Code-switching and its ‘siblings’: On the typology of historical multilingual writing practices.” Presented at the international conference “Historical Code-Switching with German,” November 16–17, 2017, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Germany)
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• “Between Code-Switching and Mixed Code.” Presented at the symposium “Multilingualism as Migration,” July 3–4, 2017, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
• “Historical Language Contacts in a Multilingual City.” Presented at the international conference “German in Austria,” July 7–9, 2016, Vienna (Austria)
• “How Does a Multilingual City Communicate? Lviv – Leopolis – Lemberg – Lwów 1848–1918.” Presented at the 2016 Language Forum in Graz: “The City as a Challenging Space for Migration and Communication,” May 9, 2016, Graz (Austria)
• “Multilingualism and Language Instruction in the Lemberg Secondary School System between 1848 and 1918.” Presented at the LMU Munich conference “MehrspracheN,” February 18 and 19, 2016, Munich (Germany).
• “Language Use and Language Shift at the University of Lemberg in the 18th and 19th Centuries.” Presented at the international conference “The Emergence and Early History of Modern German Academic Languages. Vernacular Scholarly Communication in the Early Modern Period,” November 12–14, 2015, Alfried Krupp-Kolleg, Greifswald (Germany).
• “Media Self-References in the Galician Press: A Comparison of ‘Gazeta Lwowska’ and ‘Lemberger Zeitung’.” Presented at the International Workshop  “Media Self-References: The Press Network in the Habsburg Monarchy and Its Successor States, 1855–1925,” November 3, 2015, Vienna, (Austria).
• “Language Contacts in a Multilingual City: The Case of Lemberg in the Second Half of the 19th Century.” Presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the Society for German Linguistic History. Bonn, September 25–27, 2015, Bonn (Germany)
• “The Role of German-Language Newspapers in Lemberg’s Multilingual Press Landscape During the Long 19th Century.” Presented at the international workshop “Media Self-References: The Press Network in the Habsburg Monarchy and Its Successor States, 1855–1925” as part of the Research Platform of Austrian Libraries Abroad. November 27–30, 2014, Bratislava (Slovakia).
• “Language Variation and Historical Legal Vocabulary.” Poster presentation on the German Legal Dictionary at the 6th Colloquium of the “Forum on Language Variation” of the International Society for German Dialectology, October 16–18, 2014, Zurich (Switzerland).
• “The German-speaking Population and the German-language Press in Lviv in the Second Half of the 19th Century.” Presented at the international conference “German Abroad: Perspectives on Variation Linguistics, Language Contact, and Multilingualism Research,” July 4–5, 2014, University of Vienna (Austria)
• “The Legal Dictionary as a Tool for Historical Linguistic Research.” Presented at the international conference “Early Modern High German in Institutional Use,” November 7–9, 2013, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania).
• “A Historical Perspective on Conflict Vocabulary.”
  Presented as part of the International Winter School of the European Center for Linguistics, “Linguistic Approaches to Conflicts in European Language Areas: Corpus – Pragmatics – Controversy.” March 18–23, 2013, Heidelberg University (Germany).
• “Lviv in the 19th Century: How Does a Multilingual City Communicate?” Synchronic and Diachronic, December 21–22, 2012, at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Heidelberg (Germany).
  Presented at the conference “Latest Research Findings and Perspectives in Sociolinguistics:
• “Linguistic Migration Patterns to and from Galicia (1848–1918).”
  Presented at the international workshop “Migration in the Late Habsburg Empire,” December 13–15, 2012, University of Tübingen (Germany).
• “On the Treatment of Multilingualism in the Lemberg School System, 1848–1900.”
  Presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the International Working Group for Historical Urban Language Research, October 4–5, 2012, Regensburg (Germany).
• “German in Old Austria: On Multilingualism and Variation in the Habsburg Education System in the Second Half of the 19th Century, Using the City of Lemberg as an Example”
  Presented at the conference “German in Austria: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Variation Linguistics and Multilingualism Research,” April 19–21, 2012, Vienna (Austria).
• “Scolding, slandering, backbiting: Insult as a speech act and a legal act—a journey through the *German Legal Dictionary*
  ” Presented at the 3rd Annual Conference of the Society for German Linguistic History, “Historical Pragmatics,” September 28–October 1, 2011, Vienna (Austria).
• “In Search of a Good Source: A Tour of the Electronic Resources of the German Legal Dictionary”
  Presented at the Workshop on Historical Lexicography, April 29–May 1, 2011, Bullay (Germany).
• “The German Legal Dictionary and Its Value for Historical Semantics Research”
  Presented at the annual conference of the Society for the History of the German Language, “Historical Semantics in the Dialogue of Disciplinary Cultures,” October 7–9, 2010, Heidelberg (Germany).
• “Traditions of Formulation in Legal Practice: On the Lexicographical Recording of Phraseologisms in the German Legal Dictionary”
  Presented at the conference of the European Society for Phraseology (Europhras) “Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Phraseology and Paremiology,” June 30–July 2, 2010, Granada (Spain).
• “Language Policy, Diglossia, and Language Conflicts in Discourse: On the Multilingual Situation in Lviv in the Second Half of the 19th Century”
  Presented at the conference of Cluster of Excellence 16 “Cultural Foundations of Integration” at the University of Konstanz, “Cultural Boundaries in a Transnational Context” (Bosnia-Herzegovina/Western Ukraine), November 26–28, 2009, Konstanz (Germany).
• “Language Policy, Language Variation, and Language Choice: A Case Study on Multilingualism in Galicia and Its Capital, Lemberg, in the 19th Century”
  Presented on June 26, 2009, at: ICLaVe #5, Copenhagen (Denmark).
• "Goethe, Dictionaries, and Phraseology—Old Bottles for New Wine? On Phraseology and Multi-word Phrases in an Author's Dictionary"
  Presented at the conference of the International Society for Phraseology (EUROPHRAS) "Phraseology: Global – Areal – Regional," August 13–16, 2008, University of Helsinki (Finland).
• "The Goethe Dictionary as an Example of Historical Author Lexicography"
  Presented at: "Sociolinguistics: Career Prospects and Research Fields": Symposium of the Research Training Group "Dynamics of Substandard Varieties" at Heidelberg University; March 7–8, 2008, Oberflockenbach (Germany).
• "Variety vs. Communicative Practice – Which Approach Benefits the History of Language?" Co-presentation: Variation and Historical Urban Language Research
  Presented at the conference of the International Scientific Forum Heidelberg "Variatio delectat: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Fits of Linguistic Variation," October 11–13, 2006, Heidelberg (Germany).
• "Language Variation in Lviv in the 19th Century: The Case of the Domain Administration"
  Presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the International Working Group on "Historical Urban Language Research," Dresden University of Technology, October 5–7, 2006, Dresden (Germany)
• "Language Policy of the Habsburg Empire and Multilingualism in Eastern Galicia in the Late 19th Century"
  Presented at: Sociolinguistics Symposium 16 “New Perspectives on Sociolinguistic Change, Conflict, and Accommodation,” July 6–8, 2006, University of Limerick (Ireland)
• “Phraseological Modifications: From Occasionality to Usuality”
  Presented at the conference of the International Society for Phraseology (EUROPHRAS) “Phraseology: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary,” June 9–11, 2006, University of Veszprém (Hungary)
• “German in Conflict: On Polyglossia in Lemberg in the 19th Century”
  Presented at the conference “German in Multilingual Centers of Central and Eastern Europe (19th–20th Centuries)” at the University of Regensburg; February 15–17, 2006, Regensburg (Germany)
• “Multilingualism and Language Conflict in Galicia, 1850–1900”
  Presented at: BIRTHA Conference “Language History from Below: Linguistic Variation in the Germanic Languages from 1700 to 2000,” University of Bristol, April 6–8, 2005, Bristol (United Kingdom)
• “…the national language, which is the faithful mirror of feelings and national sentiment…”: On the Function of Language in Ethnic Conflict: The Case of the City of Lviv
  Presented at: 22nd Annual Conference of the International Working Group “Historical Urban Language Research,” University of Münster, November 4–6, 2004, Münster (Germany)
• “The Galician Language and Nationality Conflict in Discourse (Based on Lviv Newspapers from 1897)
  ” Presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the Society for Applied Linguistics, “Multilingual Individuals – Multilingual Societies,” September 23–25, 2004, Wuppertal (Germany)
• “Language Conflict and Nationality Conflict in Discourse: A Study of 19th-Century German-, Ukrainian-, and Polish-Language Newspapers”
  Presented at the International Conference on Linguistics at the University of Gdańsk, “Language Contacts in Central Europe from Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives,” June 23–24, 2003, Olecko (Poland)
• “Phraseological Dictionaries—A Source of Knowledge and Errors for Germanists Abroad”
  Presented at the International Conference of Germanists at the University of Wrocław, September 3–6, 2001, Karpacz (Poland).
• “Text-forming Functions of Phraseological Modifications in Press Language”
  Presented at: Berlin Linguistics Days. 9th Conference of the Society for Language and Languages, March 20–22, 2000, Berlin (Germany).
• “On the Pragmatic Functions of Phraseological Modifications in Newspaper Texts”
  Presented at: International Conference of Germanists at the Ivan Franko National University, February 2–3, 2000, Lviv (Ukraine).
• “Formulating and Legitimizing Stylistic Norms in Practical Stylistics after 1945.” Presented at the conference “Intercultural German Studies and Intercultural Learning in the Ukrainian Context.” UDGV Conference, September 26–28, 1997, Lviv (Ukraine).
   

Guest Lectures & Miscellaneous

• “What Should Become of Linguistics? Lempicki’s Visions on the Fundamental Questions of Linguistics.” Guest lecture as part of the closing conference of the German Studies Institute Partnership (GIP) between Heidelberg and Wrocław, “Identity in Language and Literature,” October 12–13, 2023, University of Wrocław.
• “Zygmunt Łempicki’s Linguistic Interests as Reflected in His Academic Networks and Archival Documentation.” Guest lecture as part of the German Studies Department Partnership between the Universities of Heidelberg and Wrocław; December 9, 2022.
• “Multilingual Communication and Urban Language: A Historical Study Based on the Example of Lemberg/Lviv, with a Discussion of the Current Situation from a Linguistic Perspective”; March 21, 2022; guest lecture at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
• “A History of Communication in a Multilingual City: Lviv between 1848 and 1918”; June 3, 2021; guest lecture at Uppsala University, Sweden; (online).
• “The 19th Century in the History of the Ukrainian Language.” Presented on June 2, 2021, as part of the lecture series “Cultural and Intellectual History of the Slavic Peoples,” Heidelberg University (online).
• “Multilingualism: Institutionalized and Practiced at Lemberg’s Secondary Schools, 1848–1918.” Presented on November 17, 2020, as part of the lecture series “Multilingualism and Education in Austria—Historical and Social Science Perspectives,” University of Vienna (online); (See https://mehrsprachigkeitundbildunginoesterreich.univie.ac.at/archiv/vortragsreihe-ws-2020/ for the video recording).
• “Language Situation and Multilingual Practices at the University of Lemberg in the 19th Century.” Guest lecture at the Institute of History, Jagiellonian University in Kraków; May 21, 2019 (Poland).
• “Reading Fleck as a Linguist and Translator: Some Remarks on Language Contact Phenomena, Language History, and Terminological Problems.” Presented at the international workshop “Ludwik Fleck and His ‘Thought Collectives,’” April 11–14, 2019, Lviv (Ukraine)
• “Urban and Literary Languages in Bukovina and Galicia.” Panel discussion with Dr. Natalia Blum-Barth & Enko Dacz. Augsburg, May 9, 2018 (Bukovina Institute & University of Augsburg).
• “Domain-Specific Approaches to Social Multilingualism from a Historical Perspective.” Guest lecture at the Department of German Studies, University of Zurich, May 8, 2018 (Switzerland)
• “The German Language in Habsburg and Polish Galicia.” Presented at the international summer school “German Portraits of Life in Galicia,” September 24–October 1, 2017, organized by the IOS Regensburg and the Catholic University of Lviv, Lviv (Ukraine).
• Ludwik Fleck and His “Thinking Collectives.” Guest lecture at the Department of Cultural Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, September 26, 2017 (Ukraine)
• “Multilingualism and Language Contact in Urban Areas.” Guest lecture at the Department of German Studies at ELTE University in Budapest, May 9, 2017 (Hungary)
• “Historical Language Contacts and Code-Switching Phenomena from a Historical Linguistic Perspective.” Guest lecture at the Department of German Studies, University of Zurich, April 27, 2016 (Switzerland)
• “Corpora and Lexicography.” Presented on February 21, 2016, as part of the Winter School on Corpus Linguistics at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia).
• “How Does a Multilingual City Communicate? Lviv – Leopolis – Lemberg – Lemberg – Lwów 1848–1918,” presented at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Art and Design Linz; June 1, 2015, Vienna (Austria).
• “Multilingualism in Lviv’s Education System in the Second Half of the 19th Century.” Lecture delivered at the invitation of the Research Group on Multilingualism at the University of Vienna, Institute of General Linguistics, on April 23, 2015, in Vienna (Austria).
• “Multilingualism and Language Policy: On the Role of German in Lviv, 1848–1918,” presented on May 4, 2015, as part of the “Austrian Studies” module (led by Prof. Dr. Manfred Glauninger) at the University of Vienna, Department of German Studies, Vienna (Austria).
• “Dictionaries and Applied Semantics.” Delivered on December 5, 2013, as a guest lecture at Dresden University of Technology (Germany).
• “Multilingualism and Education in Lviv in the 19th Century.” Delivered on November 27, 2013, as a guest lecture at the University of Bristol (United Kingdom).
• “Linguistic Methods in Lexicography: The Case of the Goethe Dictionary”
  Delivered on May 19, 2009, at the Department of German Studies at the University of Zurich (Switzerland).
• “(Eastern) Galicia in the Habsburg Era: Geographical, Historical, Literary”
  Presented at: “Reality Is the Shadow of the Word. Poland–Ukraine Literature Day,” November 8, 2008, Kulturinstitut Atelierhaus Vahle, Darmstadt (Germany).
• “Content Management Systems in Planning: Goethe Dictionary Meets censhare AG” (co-authored with Rolf Wiechmann, Munich)
  Presented at the “Content Management Systems” workshop organized by the Electronic Publishing Working Group of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, October 6–8, 2008, Mannheim (Germany).
• “Goethe’s Vocabulary and How to Describe It: On the Structure and Philological Value of the Goethe Dictionary.” Guest lecture at the University of Nice; Department of German; April 17, 2008 (France).
• “On Traditions in German-Ukrainian Lexicography”
  Delivered at the Institute for the German Language, Mannheim; November 24, 2005, Mannheim (Germany)
• “In Search of the ‘Right’ Word: Text Corpora as a Treasure Trove for Translators”
  Presented as part of the textwerk translation seminar “Slang & Co. New Topographies of Russian” at the Literaturhaus München; October 9, 2005, Munich (Germany)
• “German-Ukrainian Lexicography: Past and Present”
  Presented as part of the Linguistic Colloquium at the University of Duisburg-Essen on June 14, 2005, Essen (Germany) (See http://www.linse.uni-essen.de/linse/institut/kolloquium/ss05/index.php)
• “Contrastive Phraseology and Word Formation.” Guest lecture at the Institute for German as a Foreign Language at the University of Heidelberg, February 6, 2004, Heidelberg (Germany)