Research

Research Areas

• Applied Linguistics
• Language didactics of German
• Language and communication in educational training and work
  • Professional and technical register
  • Language needs assessment/requirements analysis
  • Curriculum development
• Variational linguistics of German
  • Modelling of registers and varieties
  • Special languages
• Communicative competence
• Reading competence, diagnosis and promotion
• Promotion of discussion skills
• Interaction in school context
• German as a second and foreign language
• (Digital) media communication
  • Production and reception research; multimodality and discourse analysis
• Media cultural analysis
  • Media cultural linguistics
• Politolinguistics - Language and Politics
• Text linguistics
• Word formation
  • Word formation in language use
• Construction grammar