Bureaucratic language

  Types of Austrian German

One great article about bureaucratic language in Austria can be found here, with a few examples on the third page of the PDF:

https://www.dioe.at/fileadmin/user_upload/presse/_Die_Republik_04_2021_Beamtensprache_final.pdf

Language in use: one of these examples is Ruhegenuss, meaning pension, and you can see this in use in the title on this page:

https://www.bvaeb.at/cdscontent/?contentid=10007.839434&portal=bvaebbportal&portalTargetGroup=esv_content_sibling_a

And there’s a great presentation about the same topic here:

https://ata-divisions.org/GLD/docs/59_konferenz/The%20Language%20of%20Austrian%20Bureaucracy%20Dagmar%20Jenner%20Judy%20Jenner.pdf

(Links last checked in February 2024)

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