Research at the cutting edge

We conducts basic research with an application focus. Our research focuses on cultural studies and digital linguistics.

Einblick in unsere Forschungsgebiete

Digitalization as a disruption of knowledge systems - open(ing) knowledge

The project, which is part of the research network "Disruption and Societal Change" (TUDiSC), investigates the disruptive effects of digitization in the institutions central to the knowledge society: universities, libraries and schools. Using a combination of linguistic and psychological approaches, it examines how the established and monopolistically organized knowledge infrastructural orders in the three fields are transformed into open knowledge systems and how these disruptive and innovative potentials of digitization are constructed and interpreted on a discursive and individual level.

Experimental room for digital media competence (ExDiMed)

In the context of the virTUos network (virtual learning and teaching at TU Dresden in an open source context), we are experimenting with blended learning formats in the ExDiMed project to teach digital skills in dealing with media and data. Among other things, we are designing programming courses in Python and expanding an existing, successful course for linguists to include students from other humanities disciplines. Interactive modules are planned at Jupyter Lab, in which students acquire digital media skills (e.g. web scraping or machine analysis of large amounts of data) as teaching learners.

Football Linguistics

The multilingual corpora on soccer linguistics are being developed at the professorship and made accessible to the specialist public. They comprehensively and representatively document the use of written language in the domain of (internet-based) soccer reporting, which is so important in popular culture. Data is also systematically collected on digital fan discourse. Research findings on soccer linguistics based on these resources can be found in a number of publications by Simon Meier-Vieracker and on the blog fussballlinguistik.de.

Digital Plato: Tradition and Reception

Ziel ist, die Nachwirkung und Rezeption des Platonischen Werks in der antiken griechischen Literatur vom 3. Jahrhundert v.Chr. bis zu den spätantiken Autoren des Neoplatinismus im 6. Jahrhundert n.Chr. zu erschließen. Dazu sollen neben Testimonien und Zitationen auch Paraphrasen seiner Ideen bei anderen antiken griechischen Autoren aufgefunden und in der Form eines digitalen Thesaurus zusammengestellt werden. Methodisches Ziel des Projektes ist, ein Tool zur Paraphrasenerkennung zu entwickeln. Finanziert von der VW-Stiftung: 2016-2019.

The evolution of genres between standardization and variation: The case of picture post cards

Das textlinguistisch ausgerichtete Projekt nutzt korpuslinguistische Verfahren der maschinellen Auswertung grosser Datenmengen, um eine gesellschaftlich weit verbreitete Alltagspraxis privater Schriftlichkeit in ihren sprachlichen wie kommunikativen Implikationen zu erfassen. In Kooperation mit Prof. Dr. Heiko Hausendorf und Dr. Noah Bubenhofer (Uni Zürich), Finanziert von DFG und SNF 2016-2019

Third Party Funding

The evolution of genres between standardization and variation: The case of picture post cards
Text and corpus driven studies of patterns of private everyday and tele communication
>> finanziert von DFG und SNF (2016-2018)

Digital Plato
Tradition and Reception
>> finanziert von der VW-Stiftung (2016-2019)

Verbundprojekt. Faszination Sprechende Maschine: Technologischer Wandel der Sprachsynthese über zwei Jahrhunderte.
Teilprojekt: Erschließung und Aufbereitung der Sammlungsobjekte und ihre Nutzung in Forschung und Lehre
>> gefördert durch das BMBF (2016 – 2019)