Irmengard Rauch (born 1933 in Dayton, Ohio) is a linguist and semiotician.
She is Professor of Germanic Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.1979–80; 1982–present. Previously at the Univ. of Illinois (1968–82); the University of Pittsburgh (1966–68); the Univ. of Wisconsin (1962–66).
She is the editor of the book series Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics;Berkeley Models of Grammars; Studies in Old Germanic Languages and Literatures; co-editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal for Germanic Linguistics and Semiotic Analysis.