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Elissa Pustka is a University Professor of Romance Linguistics and Communication Studies at the Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna, where she serves as Director of Studies for Romance Studies. She teaches French linguistics courses across BA and MA levels, including STEOP modules, seminars on corrective phonetics, sociolinguistics of Paris, and sociolectal variation in metropolitan areas, with a focus on experiential learning through excursions.
Her research spans phonology (particularly staged orality in comics and audio books), semantics and pragmatics, perception/cognition/emotion in language, language contact/variation/change (with emphasis on creole studies and linguistic landscape), and foreign language didactics. She employs empirical methods including field research, corpus linguistics, perception experiments, and statistical analysis, often integrating digital tools and sensory approaches to pronunciation training.
Recent publications reveal strong trends in linguistic landscape studies applied to language education, innovative French phonology research (especially schwa and liaison phenomena in learner contexts), and comics-based pedagogy. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical classroom applications, frequently involving citizen science projects like VisibLL that engage school students in documenting Vienna's multilingual public spaces.
Professor Pustka leads the FWF science communication project "Making French pronunciation visible" (WKP213, starting January 2025) and organizes major academic events including the XIIe Congrès de l'APFA (October 2025) on "Jeunesses francophones" and the 39th Romance Studies Day in Konstanz (September 2025) on comics in language teaching. She collaborates with schools across Vienna on exhibitions exploring neighborhood linguistic diversity.
She directs the VisibLL project team, which partners with Viennese schools (GRG5 Rainergymnasium, BG8 Piaristengymnasium) to investigate linguistic landscapes through student-led citizen science, resulting in public exhibitions at district offices and museums. Her work emphasizes community engagement in linguistic research while advancing methodologies for multilingual didactics.
