Chairs at the Department of Linguistics

Professor 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

Professor 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

Professor Dr Beate Hampe

Language and its Structure (English Linguistics)

  • Cognitive Grammar and Semantics
  • Corpus Linguistics

Professor Dr Gila Schauer

Applied Linguistics with a focus on English

  • Discourse Analysis
  • Gender Linguistics
  • Intercultural Communication and intercultural Competence
  • Literature English Teaching in all Types of Schools
  • Pragmatics
  • (Im)politeness Research

Dr Philip Siepmann

Language teaching and learning research (English)

  • Orality/oracy and oral examinations
  • Cosmopolitan Citizenship Education & Education for Sustainable Development
  • Bilingual teaching/CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning)
  • Design-Based Research
  • Theory-practice integration

Professor 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

Professor Dr Gerhard Blanken - Psycholinguistics

Professor Dr Annick De Houwer - Language Acquisition and Multilingualism

Professor Dr Hans Ullrich Boas - English Linguistics: Language and its Structure

Professor Dr Angelika Feine - Contemporary German Language

Professor Dr Hartmut Frentz - German Studies in Language and Literature Didactics

Professor Dr Karlfried Knapp - English and Applied Linguistics

Professor Dr Christian Lehmann - General and Comparative Linguistics