Chairs at the Department of Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Frank Domahs

Applied linguistics with a focus on psycholinguistics

  • Clinical Linguistics
  • Neurolinguistics
  • Prosody - Acquisition, Processing, Disorders
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Written Language - Acquisition, Processing, Disorders
  • Language Acquisition

Prof. Dr. Dr. Csaba Földes

German Linguistics

  • Intercultural Linguistics
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Bilingualism/Multilingualism
  • Language Politics
  • Language Contact Research, Sociolinguistics
  • Phraseology
  • Lexicology
  • German as a Foreign Language/Second Language
  • German as a Minority Language

Prof. Dr. Beate Hampe

Language and its Structure (English Linguistics)

  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Grammar
  • Metaphors & figurative language
  • Semantics

Prof. Dr. Petra Knorr

English Didactics with a focus on language teaching and learning research

  • Foreign language didactic professionalisation research
  • Materials design, especially for virtual learning environments
  • Emotions in teacher education and project teaching
  • Digitalisation related professional skills
  • Videography and practical school experience in teacher training programs
  • Virtual exchange in teacher education and foreign language teaching in schools
  • Multimodal foreign language online communication

Prof. Dr. Gila Schauer

English and Applied Linguistics

  • Discourse Analysis
  • English Language Teaching
  • (Im)politeness Research
  • Intercultural Communication and Intercultural Competence
  • Language & Diversity
  • Pragmatics
  • Second Language Acquisition

Prof. Dr. Martin Steinseifer

German didactics

  • Writing Didactics
  • Text Linguistics and Text Production Research
  • Development of E-Learning Programmes
  • SKOLA - The Writing Controversy Laboratory
  • Media Theory and Media History
  • Pragmatic Language and Discourse Theory
  • Semiotics
  • Dialectology

Emiriti

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Blanken - Psycholinguistics

Prof. Dr. Annick De Houwer - Language Acquisition and Multilingualism

Prof. Dr. Hans Ulrich Boas - English Linguistics: Language and its Structure

Prof. Dr. Angelika Feine - Contemporary German Language

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Frentz - German Studies in Language and Literature Didactics

Prof. Dr. Karlfried Knapp - English and Applied Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Christian Lehmann - General and Comparative Linguistics