Research projects

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Digital Portal "Ungarndeutsches Zweisprachigkeits- und Sprachkontaktkorpus" (UZSK)
Project management
Prof. Dr. Dr. Csaba Földes Duration
09/2015 - 03/2019 Funding
Kulturstaatsministerin für Kultur und Medien (BKM):
89 000 €
The subject matter is a multilingual culture with specific structures of expression and patterns of use of German. In terms of content, the project is to be placed within the framework of diatopically oriented variational linguistics (keyword: Regionalsprachen- bzw. Sprachdynamikforschung - regional language or language dynamics research) on the one hand, and within that of bi- or multilingualism research and contact linguistics on the other.
Documentation and Description of the Kanakanavu Language, an Endangered Language of Formosa (Taiwan R.O.C. - Republic of China)
Project management
Prof. Dr. Christian Lehmann Duration
06/2012 - 07/2015 Funding
Several donors
50 000 €
The project is dedicated to the language documentation of Kanakanavu, an endangered indigenous language in Taiwan. Recorded texts will be written down and the language system will be analyzed linguistically. In addition, the situation of the language will be examined.
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German Media Language Abroad
Project management
Prof. Dr. Dr. Csaba Földes Duration
04/2019 - 03/2022 Funding
Kulturstaatsministerin für Kultur und Medien (BKM):
122 000 €
The main objective of the proposed project is the scientific research and documentation of the current German media language abroad using the example of the German minority press in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Intercultural German Studies: Impulses for Research and Teaching in Word and Text
Project management
Prof. Dr. Dr. Csaba Földes Duration
01/2014 - 12/2021 Funding
Several donors
225 000 €
The project aims to make innovative contemporary concepts from intercultural German studies productive for the partner universities by considering interculturality as an epistemological principle.
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Processing of noun composita: psycho- and neurolinguistic studies
Project management
Dr. Margret Seyboth Duration
01/2014 - 12/2016 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
111 000 €
Gerhard Blanken: In this project, data are collected on language behavior, i.e., on the understanding and production of language. The focus is on the question of how compound words (e.g., "Kugelschreiber" or "Autotür") are formed or understood.
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Religion and Politics in Protestant Sermons of the 16th and 17th Century in the Thuringian-Saxon Region
Project management
Dr. Kathrin Paasch Duration
10/2008 - 03/2015 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
101 000 €
Due to its denominational anchoring, the Gotha Research Library has a reference collection for the history of Central German Protestantism in the 16th and 17th centuries. An extremely extensive collection of sermons is part of this outstanding tradition. The aim of the project is to make the collection of political sermons accessible to the interested public online.
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The Mission of the English Philadelphians in Germany, Building Networks and the Spoken Transmission of their Ideology
Project management
Dr. Lucinda Martin Duration
07/2014 - 07/2017 Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG):
261 998 €
In the Gotha Research Library, there is a geographically arranged 'Catalogus amicorum in Germania', which served the Philadelphians as a starting point for their German mission, together with a volume of letters from this group. In addition, there are important holdings in other archives which have also received little attention from scientists. Based on these sources, the project will reconstruct the early network of the Philadelphians between England and Germany as well as the social and…
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What is Western about the West?
Project management
Prof. Dr. Holt Meyer Duration
02/2018 - 01/2021 Funding
Several donors
420 000 €
The project focuses on spatio-temporal practices regarding the production and representation of westernness. With the question of what is Western about the West, it takes up a highly political and socially relevant question.

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