Research
Research areas: German Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, especially
- Language – Culture – Interculturality/Transculturality: Intercultural Linguistics
- Intercultural Communication
- Bilingualism/Multilingualism
- Language Politics (especially: The International Position of German)
- Language Contact Research, Sociolinguistics
- Phraseology
- Lexicography
- German as a Foreign Language/Second Language
- German as a Minority Language.
Externally funded projects:
- Deutsche Mediensprache im Ausland – am Beispiel der deutschen Minderheitenpresse in Mittel- und Osteuropa.
- Interkulturelle Germanistik: Impulse für Forschung und Lehre zu Wort und Text.
- Subproject: „Sprachliche Bildung in mehrsprachigen Kontexten“ within the major project QUALITEACH, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Our current project poster can be found ⇒ here.
- "Handbuch Mehrsprachigkeit" Scholarly publishing house De Gruyter (with Prof. Dr. Thorsten Roelcke).
- Certificate Programme "Deutsch als Fremdsprache/Deutsch als Zweitsprache für Lehrende", funded by the Thuringian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Research and Digital Society.
- Internationales Forschungs- und Nachwuchsförderungsnetzwerk für Interkulturelle Germanistik (IFNIG).
Recently completed:
Academic activities: See the information ⇒ here.
Publications: A list of my publications can be seen ⇒ here.