Prisca Augustyn
Dr. Prisca Augustyn
Ph.D., Germanic Linguistics
University of California Berkeley (2000)
Areas of Expertise
Linguistics, Semiotics, German
E-mail: augustyn@fau.edu
Dr. Prisca Augustyn teaches courses in linguistics, semiotics, and German studies. She is interested in the role language plays in shaping our beliefs, the pragmatism of daily life, and attitudes towards the living world. Her research addresses the history of ideas in linguistics and related fields, biosemiotics, and ecolinguistics (cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis). Dr. Augustyn coordinates the German Language Program. Together with Nikolaus Euba (UC Berkeley) she is co-author of Welten , an introductory German language program, and Stationen , an intermediate German program published with Cengage.
Recent Publications
Augustyn, P. (2023) "Can the ‘Master Narrative’ of Ìý Growth Ìýbe Replaced by New Stories ofÌý Shrinking ÌýandÌý Degrowth ? A Biosemiotic Perspective on the ‘Stories we Live by’" Ìý Biosemiotics . ÌýÌý
Augustyn, P. (2023) " Funktionskreis , Ìý Gestaltkreis , and Ìý Situationskreis Ìýin the context of integrated medicine."Ìý Semiotica . Ìý Ìý
Augustyn, P. (2022) "Pragmatism and The Fixation of 21st ÌýCentury Food Beliefs."Ìý Food EthicsÌý Vol. 7, 7.ÌýÌý Ìý
Augustyn, P. (2021) "Solar Energy Discourse in the Sunshine State."Ìý Sign Systems StudiesÌý 49 (1/2) 63–85.ÌýÌý
Augustyn, P. (2018) "Animal Studies in the Language Sciences."Ìý BiosemioticsÌý 11/1.Ìý Dordrecht: Springer. 121–138.ÌýÌý
Current Courses
LIN3010 Introduction to Linguistics
LIN2607 Global Perspectives on Language
LIN4802 Semantics
LIN4810 Introduction to Semiotics
LIN3003 Language Matters
GER1120 Elementary German Language and Culture 1
GER1121 Elementary German Language and Culture 2
GER2220 Intermediate German
GEW2104 Readings in Intermediate German