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Our research

In addition to teaching in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs, our activities focus on a variety of research topics, including both theoretical and applied issues.

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Current research activities

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Language and language knowledge as an object of research

Current research projects

"DigitalHerrnhut" in "virTUos" (Virtual teaching and learning at TU Dresden in an open source context). Foundation Innovation in University Teaching // "Strengthening University Teaching through Digitization". 01.08.2020 until 31.07.2024
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In DigitalHerrnhut, both innovative virtual and hybrid teaching and event formats are being (further) developed and internationalized. In concrete terms, modular small curricula are being virtualized and curricularly anchored following DigitaLiS for the master's program "Digital Humanities" with international partners (e.g. Bucknell University, Pennsylvania). For Digital Herrnhut, innovative extensions are being implemented through virtual excursions, workshops and conferences involving culturally relevant locations in Eastern Saxony (Herrnhut/Berthelsdorf, Kleinwelka, Niesky). VR/AR technologies will be used for this purpose. The project is supported by the SLUB.

CLiC (Conceptualizing Languages in Colonization). DAAD // "International Virtual Academic Collaboration". Federal Ministry of Education and Research. 01.10.2021 to 30.09.2022.
Marlene Rummel

In the project "CLiC" (Conceptualizing Languages in Colonization), students of the TU Dresden and Bucknell University (Pennsylvania) are collaboratively developing historical sources of central importance for European intellectual and cultural history. The central figure is the missionary and linguist David Zeisberger (1721-1808): In his texts, some in German and some in English, many of which have not yet been digitized, he writes about the languages of the Native Americans in what is now Pennsylvania. He thus offers an ideal starting point for analyzing and comparing historical and current concepts of language and multilingualism and their effects on social power structures.

"Mapping Moravian Meanings" in "TUD-COIIIL" (collaborative online international, interdisciplinary, intercultural learning). DAAD // „International Virtual Academic Collaboration“. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung. 01.10.2020 bis 30.09.2021.
Marlene Rummel

TUD-COIIIL is one of 48 projects selected by the DAAD for its "International Virtual Academic Collaboration" program. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the projects with around 5.5 million euros until the end of 2021. The central concern is to test the possibilities of collaborative learning in hybrid learning environments. In the linguistic subproject, a cooperation with Bucknell, P.A., has been initiated in the context of the planning for the Master "Digital Humanities". In this, virtual mobility modules will be anchored in the context of the work on DigitalHerrnhut.

"Sprachliche Wissenstransferprozesse (TUD-GL)" in KEEN (Künstliche-Intelligenz-Inkubator-Labore in der Prozessindustrie).
Svenja Lammers

Research fields

In our research, we focus on the question of how to describe language, language structure, language action, language use, and language knowledge in a way that is adequate to the subject matter and explanations in the past and present. Our main research areas are (links lead directly to the blog "GLS"):

Like the research fields, we also publish references to recent papers, articles, lecture scripts and presentations, and recordings of lectures in the "research" category on our blog "GLS", which we maintain collaboratively.