Studium

What role do language and communication play in different areas of society - for example in the (social) media, in politics, the economy or in social movements? How do media and social innovations shape the way we communicate, speak and write? And conversely, how do language and communication shape our social reality? These are the questions that our courses focus on.

Teaching in Applied Linguistics is application and research-oriented. We use teaching to examine language in its concrete application together with the students and to try out the linguistic theories and methods ourselves. In doing so, we seek interdisciplinary connections to political and social sciences, communication science and computer science.

One methodological focus is on digital methods such as corpus linguistics. We offer courses in programming (Python). We operate a web-based corpus analysis platform on which we also host corpora from students' courses or BA and MA projects.