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Research at the Department of German Studies – Digital Linguistics

This page gives an overview of the research at our department.

Current projects

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Terminological Innovations in the Field of International Relations: Emergence and Diffusion (2023-2026)

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 →
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DFG Research group “Kontroverse Diskurse” (2022-2026)

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 →
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Three Centuries of a Darmstadt Newspaper – Digitisation of the “Darmstädter Tagblatt” 1740-1986 (2019-2025)

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 →
Discourse Lab – digital teaching and research platform (2015-17)

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 →