Hispanic Literature

Representation of violence in literature The functions of irony in literary texts Crime novel Drug novel Postdictatorial novel Borges studies

Modern Chinese Studies / Sinology; Political Science; Political Sociology

China's political system local administration, policy implementation and governance in China rural transformation and urbanization in China air pollution regulation, environmental governance 'Greater China', notions of "Chineseness" political inclusion and exclusion comparative research on authoritarianism

Neuro-linguistics

Multimodal communication Embodied and distributed communication Speech pathology Communication disorders Aphasiology Communication technology for elderly and disabled Linguistics Pragmatics

Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Translation studies, History of education, History of classical philology

Romance studies

Literature and culture of the Middle Ages (France, Spain) Conviviality and literature in Siglo de Oro and Siècle classique Literature of the avant-garde Historical remembrance in the contemporary novel (France, Spain)

Comparative Literature and Modern Culture

Archives, big data, surveillance, information and communication technology, cities, architecture, narration, subjectivity, cultural theory, 19th – 21st century English, German and Scandinavian literature, film and art

Literary studies, recent German literature, cultural studies

Syntactic theory

Comparative syntax Syntactic typology The morphology/syntax interface The lexicon/syntax interface Language acquisition Historical linguistics Speech and language pathology

Formal semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, logic

Quantification, intensionality (propositional attitudes, modality), reference, indefinites, questions, imperatives, focus-topic structure, presupposition, implicatures, free choice phenomena, comparatives, ellipsis, quantified modal logic, cross-linguistic semantics, diachronic semantics, dynamic semantics, corpus semantics, optimality theory.

Comparative literature, Literature of Romance languages, Literary studies, cultural history, nineteenth-century studies

Nineteenth-century European novel Impact of the French Revolution in literature and culture Dandyism, fashion and self-fashioning Representations of the nineteenth-century urban experience Influence and imitation across borders Literature and the law

Historical anthropology of the media, generations in literature and society, conceptions of humanity, the history of reading, writing and memory

Memory Theory of cultural memory Trauma

Semitic Philology

Language, Art and Archaeology of pre-Islamic Arabia

Modern German Literature

Digital Humanities Cultural Transfer Intellectual networks Romanticism

Languages and cultures of Central Asia

Dialectology of Afghan Uzbek Narrative research (oral history and folklore) Sociocultural change in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras

French literature

Inter-American and trans-Atlantic circulation of knowledge Diaspora literatures and cultures in historical and current perspective Circulation of cultural practices, above all in the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora

Biomedical engineering

Speech perception, auditory perception, hearing impairment, hearing aids, cochlear implants, audiovisual integration, auditory cognition, behavioral studies, aging

English literary and cultural studies

Literary attention Cognitive literary studies The aesthetics and history of fascination British drama, esp. Shakespeare English literature and culture (16th - 21st century with a research focus on the early modern period, the 18th century, Gothic fiction and modernism) Intermediality Literary and cultural theory

Field: Literary and Cultural Studies. Specialization: South African literature and culture; South African cultural history and historiography; postcolonial studies; global modernism; apartheid; transnational cultural circulation; decolonization.

My current research interests focus on the global circulation of South African cultural formation in print, musical and visual culture, on the assumption that the meaning of apartheid and of resistance to it occurs on the terrain of culture. As an apparatus of transnational cultural production, apartheid helps us to shed new historiographical light on questions of racial inequality and decolonization in the Cold War era.

Classics (Greek and Latin languages and literatures)

Greek and Roman popular philosophy Latin poetry of the Imperial period, esp. Seneca's tragedies Greek lexicography Current research topic: Stephanos of Byzantium, Ethnika

Edition and the process of writing, German Literature (18th century to 21th century), General and Comparative Literature, Culture - Literature - (Inter-) mediality

Edition, 'critique génétique', texutal scholarship, analysis of writing processes German-language literature, especially from Austria, of the 20th and 21st centuries Mediality of Literature Intermediality Inter- and Transculturality Intertextuality Literature and Culture of the "Goethezeit" (18th/19th century) Orientalism, mutual influences Orient-Occident Literature and Theatre of Modernism and of the Avant-gardes

Literary studies

German literature from the middle ages to the baroque period Models of families in literature, the construction of cultural spaces, mediaeval and early modern book culture, libraries as knowledge spaces; reception of the middle ages; gender studies; animal studies

Linguistics, minimalist syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics

Slavic (Polish) syntax Case and agreement Nega­tion and Neg­a­tive Polar­ity Items Indef­i­nites Cop­u­lar Con­struc­tions Exis­ten­tial Con­struc­tions Aspect Tense Future constructions (Un)ergativity Infor­ma­tion Struc­ture

Artistic research, music and literature, the relationship between the arts, contemporary literature, death

Applied Linguistics; Educational Sciences; Child Studies; Linguistic Anthropology

Bilingualism; Language Policies and practices; Children's bilingualism and global world; Second language learning and migration; Emotion and Moral Socialization; Touch and social emotional relations

Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Sinologie

History of Mathematics, particularly in China Relations between the history of Mathematics and Linguistics Mathematics and Culture

Medieval and Early Modern Cultural History; History of Books; History of Reading

Late Medieval and Early Modern Reading Culture Religious Reading Cultural Translation in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Literatures in English, Irish literature

Cultural memory The Great Irish Famine Irish nineteenth-century literature Irish-American literature Irish-Canadian literature Literature and migration Women's writing Early modern drama

Linguistics

Formal linguistics Syntax Romance languages Dialectology Syntax/Phonology interface Comparative syntax

Italian Linguistics, Romance Linguistics and General Linguistics

Lexical semantics (Adverbials, Particles, Discourse markers) Syntax (marked syntactic constructions) Information structure and Text linguistics Sociolinguistics, Language Contact Contrastive Linguistics

Latin American literature, Hispanic Caribbean Literature, Cultural Studies

Historical Novel, Food Studies and Literature, Popular Music and Literature, Canon Formation

German literature within the European context, Scholarly reading and writing practices from the early modern to the contemporary period, History of art theory, art historiography and aesthetics from the C17th to the C19th within the European context, Methodology of comparaison and cultural tranfers in the Humanities

German literature of the Enlightenment, the Classical and Romantic periods The Making of Art Historiography in Europe from the C17th to the C19th Excerpting, Citing, Plagiarizing. Written culture, academic practices and authorship in the Early Modern period

Linguistics, German philology

Syntax and morphology of German (including its earlier historic stages and nonstandard varieties) Building up digital resources for questions of historical syntax

Egyptology

Religion, Local traditions, Funerary texts, Materiality of writing

Medical Humanities, Economic and Social History Europe

History of Psychiatry History of Childhood Welfare and Coercion Social History of Tuberculosis

Linguistics

Language acquisition and multilingualism Information structure and discourse structure Focus particles and verum focus Comparative linguistics

Cultural transfer and dissimination of literary, artistic and religious motifs from antiquity into the Islamic world, in particular the oriental Alexander tradition in the languages and cultures of the Middle East, Africa, central Asia and south-east Asia.

Literary-historical research into the Alexander cycle in historical, religious, literary, philosophical and scientifical sources and popular epics from the Arabic and Islamic world Gog and Magog and Islamic eschatology Codicology and Paleography of Arabic and Islamic manuscripts Traditional art, calligraphy and miniaturepainting of the Islamic world De Susannah-tradition: interreligious and transcultural transmission of motifs in Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources Arabic popular epics: structure and liguisitic and paleographic features Wisdom literature

Phonological theory

Prosodic phonology, Prosodic morphology, Morphology-phonology interface, Phonology-syntax interface, Information structure, Bantu linguistics, Somali prosody

Cultures, literatures, and media of Europe with special attention paid to Central and Eastern Europe

Poetics and coding, name – gender – identity, ideology – historiography – canon, ethics in literary studies and cultural studies, Holocaust studies and Eastern Europe, literary pragmatics, editorial studies, media in religion and secularisation, the ends of empires and the start of the film era, film censorship, rhetoric and film propaganda, new waves in Eastern European film; What is open access? Theory and practice

German philology and English studies

Medieval and early modern English drama, especially University drama and convent drama; medieval religious writings, especially for women; Julian of Norwich and the transmission of her writing; devotional compilation

Text linguistics, functional grammars, syntax, variety linguistics, punctuation, written and spoken language

Linguistics

Formal grammar Phonology

History of the German language

Historical German linguistics Language change and theories of language change Historical grammar and lexicography Historical phraseology Metaphor theories Dialectology Interdisciplinary text/image relationships in the area of historical formulaic language Language and culture in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, in particular conversational culture

General language studies, pragmatics, communication, human-robot interaction

I'm interested in how communication works and how we deal with novel technologies, such as robots. I work on persuasion and behavior change and on addressee orientation and recipient design in document design and in verbal interaction. I contribute to making robots more pleasant to use, but use human-robot interactions also to identify and study core mechanisms of human interaction.

English, esp. American literature

American 20th and 21st century literature; multimodal novel; gender studies; ethnic studies; autobiography; literary theory; impact of the digital on literature and culture; sensory perception and literature

Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft

Narratology Linguistic analysis of literature ("language and literature", stylistics) Postcolonial literary theorie Ästhetik des 18. Jh. Law and Literature Studies Prison literature

Field: comparative literature. Area of specialisation: literary theory, early modern studies

Literary history, discourse theory, gender and psychoanalysis

Classical philology, Latin philology

Latin poetry (Catullus, Augustan poets) Hellenistic, Roman and Christian philosophy (Cicero, St. Augustine)

German literature from the 18th century to the present with particular emphasis on the narrative prose of the 19th century, philosophical aesthetics and literary theory from the 18th to the 21st century

Educational discourse since the 18th century Goethe's Morphology and the history of its reception in the 20th century Literature and law

Dialectology, dialect lexicography

Vocabulary research Language contact research Language minorities

Linguistics

historical linguistics dialectology Old High German glossography German languages, Albanian, Slavic languages graphemics dialect syntax

phonetics, sociolinguistics, socio-phonetics

Linguistic distances mutual intelligibility of closely related languages experimental linguistics socio-phonetics perception of language variation language attitudes

Philosophical and philological sciences, science of art

History of the performing arts, Cultural history, Artistic practices, Patronage, Early Modern Rome, French Seventeenth Century music, theater and poetry

Canadian Literature, Arts, and Culture

20th century Canadian Literature and Arts, with emphasis on representations of war and Biography

English and anglophone literatures and cultures of the 19th, 20th, 21st centuries

Literary theory; literature and visual culture; animal studies; literature and space/urbanity; genre and crime fiction; seriality; figurations of the whole; theories and methods of research on contemporary literature; practices of scholarly writing

Classical Arabic language and literature

Classical Arabic literature and its social context, Arabic literature in World Literature, Arabic-Islamic book-culture (codicology), and Arabic script and its uses (paleography), history of the Arabic language.

Psycholinguistics, second language acquisition/bilingualism, gesture studies

Second language acquisition/bilingualism Language and cognition Speech-gesture integration Processing Semantics and discourse

Phraseology, research into collocations, lexicology, writing/ orality

Research into linguistic variation, language acquisition, the language situation of German Switzerland, corpus linguistics, research into writing, psycholinguistics, empirical semantics, descriptive grammar during the 18th century, gender aspects of language use

Humanities

Generative syntax English: left periphery, cartography, intervention, adverbial clauses, Main Clause Phenomena, subject omission West Flemish: complementizer agreement, negation, DP-syntax, possessor doubling, subject doubling, particles

Literature studies. General and Scandinavian, in particular Swedish literature

Women's literature, in particular women's autobiography and women's letters. Among these the autobiogragphy and letters of Queen Christina of Sweden. The theory of performativity. The Swedish author Birger Sjöberg, Genre theory.

English Literature, American and Canadian Studies

English literature, American literature, Canadian studies, 20th century literature and culture, middlebrow culture; periodicals and print culture; the history of sophistication

English literature

Irish women's literature, particularly 19th-century literature Arctic and Northern studies, particularly 19th-century Culture and literature Travel writing Postmodern romance

Romance cultural studies and literature (Spanish, Portuguese, French)

Ethics and literature Disability Studies 20th and 21st-century theatre in France and Spain The novel of the 20th/21st century (Latin America, France, Spain) Theories of cognition and communication Systems theory and cybernetics Mathematics and literary studies The psychology of emotion and literary studies

Semantics, Language development, Cognitive science

Formal semantics and pragmatics Semantic and pragmatic development Atypical language development (e.g., in Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, cochlear implant users) Cognitive modeling of language Theory of mind development The architecture of grammar

Chinese Studies / Sinology

Chinese Literature and Culture (20th and 21st century) Underground, semi-official and illegal literature Plagiarism Chinese Music

Scandinavian literatureRomanticismAvant-gardeModernismExpressionism

Mediaeval history (Europe and the Middle East/Islam)

Global and transcultural history Relationship between religion and politics in the middle ages Cultural history of religion Images of Islam and the history of Islam Gender history History of the body

Psycholinguistics

First language acquisition, language acquisition disorders, relations of language acquisition to general cognitive development

Jewish Studies

Mediaeval Hebrew literature (in particular, liturgical poetry, liturgy, commentarial literature) Rituals and their development Interreligious contacts and their effects Judaism in the 19th centuries

Linguistics, German philology

Theoretical linguistics Experimental linguistics Unification-based grammar Interface between syntax and semantics Discourse structures and text comprehension Cognitive and machine language processing Linguistics and literature

Western European literatures of the modern era, literature of Goethe's time, literature and political theory, intellectual history, media theory

Literature and political secrets, conspiracy, treason Narrative forms of charisma (current project) Modelling of the future in literature and science (current project)

PsycholinguisticsComputational Linguistics

Interaction, Dialogue

Text linguistics and technical communication

Text linguistics Text production research Electronic information and communications media Web design Technical communication Communicative usability Human/computer interaction Communication at the workplace Acceptance of technology Age and technology eHealth

German linguistics

Technical and academic language Scientific communication / public understanding of science / research on knowledge transfer Linguistic text and discourse analysis Language criticism / language culture / language policies The linguistics of advertising

speech comprehension

aging hearing loss psycholinguistics speech perception

Romance linguistics

Language contact research Lexicology Semantic Language policy Applied linguistics The Caribbean

Sociology of Media and Culture, Media and Communications research, Journalism Studies, Sociology of the Arts, Sociology of Music, Sociology of Literature

Susanne Janssen has published widely on the agents and institutions involved in the creation, dissemination and valuation of literature and other art forms. Her current research focuses on changes and continuities in the classification of culture; the socialand economic significance of cultural heritage (in particular popular music heritage); processes, structures and impacts of cultural globalization; the production and consumption of online media content; cultural authority and trust; innovative practices in the media and creative industrie.

Foreign language philologies – Slavic studies

Questions of historical genre poetry, occasional poetry and panegyrics, beginnings of modernity around 1800, the relationship between literature and historiography, between poetry and science, poetry and religion or the church (in the Russian and Polish literature of the 18th - 20th centuries) Utopia and science fiction (Russian and Polish literature) Questions of translation research and the translation of literary texts from Russian and Polish to German (on how to deal with realia, genre conventions, cultural traditions and conventions), questions of reception in translation Questions of author poetry and the constitution of a personal writing strategy in dealing with a totalitarian regime (Russian literature of the 20th century) Gender issues in Russian, Polish and Bulgarian literature Literature documentation, especially a) older Slavic holdings (up to 1830) at the SUB Göttingen university library, b) German translations of Russian poetry

Romantic and Victorian British literature; literature and science studies; literature and mathematics

Romantic and Victorian British literature literature and science studies literature and mathematics

Dutch Literature, History, Philosophy

Nationalism, national identity, Napoleon, press history, women's writers, memory studies, war and peace cultures

Ancient and Medieval worldsAncient Philosophy (Platonism) and ancient greek Religion (orphism)Relation between pagans and Christians

Medio-Platonism Numenius Plutarch Dualism Question of the origins of Evil in Ancient philosophy Orpheus, Christ and Dionysos

Computational Linguistics

Grammar formalisms Statistical natural language processing Syntax Semantics

German philology, recent German literature with an emphasis on the early modern period through the early 19th century

Literature, culture and media of the early modern period, the early 18th century, the Romantic period Confessional transcoding of Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae in the 16th/17th centuries Grimmelshausen's simplicianische Schriften as a field of experimentation for fictitious authorship schemes Compiling a Gryphius handbook Periodical literature in serial form in the 18th/19th centuries

linguistics, sociolinguistics, globalization

language of children and youth, language and migration, food and language, sports and language, language and super-diversity, language and play

Linguistics, conversation analysis

I work in the field of interactional linguistics with an emphasis on the sequentiality of social action and the temporal nature of grammar. I have published on the development and use of pragmatic particles, features of grammar, such as projection, clause combining, clitics and reduplication, as well as prosody in interaction. Having re-interpreted the function of pro-forms and deixis in real-time embodied contexts, I am currently looking into practices of coordinating grammar with the body.

African studies

Pygmy languages of Africa as a source of information on the proto-language of humanity Documenting the grammar of Khwe (a language of Namibia) Language change, linguistic typology and pedagogy in cases of reading/writing impairments

Austronesian and Papuan Linguistics, Indonesian languages, eastern Indonesia

Language description, typology, language contact

Latin America (Area Studies)

Contemporary Latin American Literatures, Transareal Intellectual History

Political anthropology, urban anthropology, anthropology of migration, ethnolinguistics, creole studies, cognitive anthropology, ethnosociology

Thematic interests: Integration and conflict, ethnic and cultural diversity, cultural contact, identity, migration/remigration, creoleness and creolisation, postcolonial societies, nationalism, ethnicity, transnationalism, indigenisation, ethnogenesis, diaspora, expatriate communities, urban anthropology, gender Regional interests: West Africa, Indonesia, Central Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands), Caribbean, maritime societies (Atlantic and Indian Ocean)

German Literature / General Literary Studies

Law and Literature Concepts of Matter / Gender Studies Postcolonial Studies/Race Theory/National Identities 18th to 21st Century Literature

Slavic studies and Yiddish studies

Literary and cultural theories; intermediality; intertextuality; Russian and Yiddish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; literature and paintings by the Jews of eastern Europe; intertextual relationships among the (eastern-European Jewish) literatures in Russian, Polish and Yiddish; cities as texts (research concentration: Russian literature)

English literature and cultural studies

Popular representations of history Travel literature Depictions of war in literature, film and journalism Heroism and the portrayal of heroes British literature and culture since the 19th century Postcolonial literatures

Art history

French art and architecture and their influence in the German-speaking countries in the 17th and 18th centuries The visual arts in southern Germany around the year 1500 Image and text in the professional art history literature

Romance philology

Romance languages and literatures of the Middle Ages, in particular: Old French and Old Occitan epics, Old French and Old Occitan novels, Occitan and Italian lyric poetry, language contacts in the Middle Ages Literature and the church Narrative literature of all periods Historical narratology

Linguistics, Finno-Ugric studies

historical linguistics, morphology, gender linguistics, multilingualism, language contact

Phonology Phonetics Historical Linguistics Psycholinguistics Neurolinguistics

Medieval and early modern German literature

Manuscripts Transmission Text/image relationships Latin-German Religious texts, music, especially hymns

German Language and Literature

European Culture Body Poetics Johann Wolfgang Goethe The Future of the Humanities Edition philology

Literature

Medieval literature Literature and medicine Religion and medicine The Body

Baltic Historical Linguistics, Indo-European Comparative Philology

History of the Baltic languages, Old Lithuanian texts, Early Baltic religion, Indo-European languages, Sound change and Phonology, Ancient DNA and prehistoric migrations, Baltic and Slavic word formation and nominal compounds, Baltic and Slavic accentology, Language contact around the Baltic Sea.

Egyptology, Oriental Studies

Egyptian and Oriental Papyri and Manuscripts Egyptian literature (particularly genre issues and methods) Relations between Egypt and the Near East Jews in Egypt (the Persian era) Elephantine Religion of the Amarna period Egyptian art history Museum work History of Egyptology Egyptian-Coptic language (particularly lexicon and syntax)

Literature and media, circulation of media and literature, post-colonialism, de-colonialism, literature studies and communication, genre theory, media & genres, text & image, gender theory, cultural competence, culture in transformation, technology and creativity

Transnational literature, African Sub-saharan literature, virtual worlds, comic art, French literature, Francophone literature, 19th century literature, modernism, poetry, academic writing

German Literature (19th-20th century); Modernism, Comparative Literature; German-Jewish Literature and Thought; Literature and Philosophy

German-Jewish Literature and Thought Modernism Literary Theory Literature and Philosophy

Jewish Studies / Judaic studies with a focus on Jewish mediaeval studies; biblical exegesis and literary theory; history of Jewish biblical interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries

Mediaeval Hebrew cultural and literary history

Indo-European studies

Etymology Information structure Comparative linguistics of the Indo-European languages: phonology, morphology, syntax

Linguistics, German philology

Linguistics and cognitive science Grammar Semantics and pragmatics

Historical-comparative linguistics

Reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European language (morphology) Philology and linguistics of Sanskrit and Tocharian

Greek philology, classical philosophy

Plato (as literary author and as philosopher), history of classical Platonism (during the imperial period and late antiquity), esp. Longinus, Porphyry, Proclus, Marinus Hellenistic literature Classical poetics, aesthetics, religion, philosophy; classical literary biography/hagiography Material culture (esp. in Homer, Hesiod)

Classical philology (Latin)

Roman drama Roman epic Roman rhetoric (especially Cicero) The reception of classical literature (especially New Latin)

German mediaeval studies

Courtly epic poetry Biblical epic poetry Fact and Fiction Manuscript Culture, esp. 'text and image' Law and Literature Reception of the Middle Ages in the 19th century

Literature Studies, Cultural Studies

Classics, Classical Reception Studies, Classical Philology, Mythology, Cicero, Children's and Young Adults' Culture, Literature, Animal Studies

History of the graphic culture

Language change Textual Criticism Early Modern history E-Humanities Discourse analysis

German Literature (18th century to present)

History of the Political Imaginary, Theory and History of Genres, Interrelations between Law and Literature, Cultural Theory

Aesthetics, aesthetic education, childhood, children's and youth literature

Aesthetic education in theory and practice Music and aesthetic education at the primary level Aesthetic experiences in childhood / in childhood memories Children's and youth literature; the picture book Words and images Artistic creative processes beyond artistic professionalisation

syntax/semantics

Case Agreement Measure phrases Cardinal numerals Proper names: syntax, semantics; modified and complex proper names Head-movement Scalarity: syntax and semantics The architecture of the grammar: phases, head-movement Predication, cross-linguistic predicate marking (predicate case, copular particles, copulas), small clauses Russian phonology and morphology Internal structure of extended AP and extended NP: DP-internal adjective fronting, adjective ordering and adjective scope, the structure of modification, superlatives Interaction between different modules of the grammar

Cognitive science

Neurocognition of language Speech Dyslexia Social dominance

German philology, historical linguistics, digital humanities, cultural history

Paratextuality/glossography of the Middle Ages Historical grammar and tract literature Language change Urban language research Luxembourg studies Digital humanities Web 2.0 Research infrastructure in the humanities

Modern German literature and general literary studies

18th-20th century German literature in comparison Traditions in aesthetics and poetics Concepts of modernity Initial constructions and fictions of origin Theories of narration Poetics of the novel Siegfried Kracauer Robert Musil

Linguistics/Lexic

language and gender, research into dictionary use, digital dictionaries, empirical analyses of vocabulary/lexical change

Romance literary studies

Aesthetic theory Romance-language literature of the Middle Ages and the modern era and the poetics of friendship The special relationship between literary interpretation and philosophical approaches

German philology

The Quran and Quranic exegesis

The Quran and methods of Quranic interpretation Modern Arabic literature of the Levant Palestinian poetry Literature of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

Roman history, Roman political culture, Roman rituals, perfomances and spectacles, Classical reception

Roman triumphs, Roman funerals and communal grief, Roman defeats, Roman memory sanctions, Roman calendars, Roman memorials, Agrippina the Elder

Semantics and pragmatics

The dynamics of meaning-making in human communication The relation between meaning in language, cognition and perception The language of the senses The role of construals such as categorization, metonymization and metaphorization Modality, temporality, evidentiality and speaker stance Degree and negation Semantic variation and change Text and discourse Language and sensory perceptions

Cognitive Linguistics (mental spaces and conceptual blending), Discourse Studies, Legal Argumentation, Fictive Interaction (the intersection of Language, Interaction, and Cognition)

I am mostly interested in the interrelation between language, interaction and cognition. If human babies learn to interact long before they learn to speak, and if face-to-face conversation is the most common form of communication, then: how is the structure of interaction reflected in language structure and language use? That is, what forms does the basic interactional pattern of turn-taking take in grammar and discourse (e.g. rhetorical questions or embedded non-genuine quotations like "a what's in it for me? attitude)? And, what functions do conversational structures have? In addition, I'm interested in the communicative effectiveness of interactional structures, particular in high-stakes situations such as criminal court trials.

German literature of the high and late Middle Ages in its European context History of the field of medieval studies / methodological problems of medieval cultural studies The special textuality and mediality of medieval literature

Multilingualism; intercultural relations; creative and performing arts; refugee, asylum and migration; Public engagement.

Languages and mobilities; ethical and political concerns relating to refugee, asylum and migration, including migratory aesthetics, conflict transformation, intercultural pedagogies including anthropological and creative approaches to language and cultural studies.

Egyptology

Egyptian philology and material culture Concepts of man and nature The junction of Egyptology and the natural sciences Intellectual history of Ancient Egypt (incl. interactions with Greece) The botany and pharmacobotany of Egypt and the Greco-Roman world Metrology Mummification