This interdisciplinary project is commissioned by the Federal Office for Radiation Protection to investigate how 'precaution' is understood and negotiated in various social and media discourses in the context of mobile network expansion. Project partner is Sophia McDonnell, Verian GmbH Munich.

DFG-funded project with Dr Jens Steffek (Political Science, TU Darmstadt). This project uses corpus linguistic methods to investigate the ways and extent to which terminological innovations from academic discourse enter everyday political language. Learn more →

Sub-projects 2 “Mensch und Technologie” (with C. Spieß, Marburg) and 7 “Methodologie und Reflexion”; management of the corpus infrastructure of the research group. The project aims to analyse and present the recent history of the German language by examining a broad spectrum of controversial discourses since 1990. Learn more →

DFG-funded project with Thomas Stäcker (library director, ULB Darmstadt). In a cooperation with the ULB, the Institute for Linguistics and Literary Studies is digitizing the holdings of one of the oldest periodicals and one of the longest continuously published (daily) newspapers in the German-speaking world. Learn more →

Platform for discourse analysis as transcultural research. Funded in the scope of the DFG Excellence Initiative II, with internal funding from 2018 onwards. Co-PI: Dr Jörn Stegmeier. Learn more →