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