Constructing facticity: How underdetermination drives communication for special purposes

The research project aims at investigating dynamic processes of exchange and oscillation between psychiatric and legal communication from the 19th to the 20th century in order to get a hold of the resulting constructions of factuality. In doing so, the focus will be on the behavioral problems referred to as dissocial personality disorders in ...

Duration: 10/2023 - 09/2026

Funded by: DFG

Contact: PD Dr. Friedrich Markewitz

digGer – Open education in German studies – Project phase II

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Duration: 04/2023 - 10/2024

Funded by: MKW NRW

digGer – Open education in German studies – Project phase I

The digGer project focuses on the development of modular, multimedia-supported learning arrangements embedded in three operational scenarios. These consist of seven interrelated subject areas to promote media technology, media communication and media reflexive skills for philologists, especially German studies or German language didactics, text, ...

Duration: 11/2020 - 10/2022

Funded by: MKW NRW

t.evo – Die Evolution von komplexen Textmustern: Entwicklung und Anwendung eines korpuslinguistischen Analyseverfahrens zur Erfassung der Mehrdimensionalität des Textmusterwandels

Ziel des Projekts t.evo war die Ermittlung geeigneter Indikatoren für historischen Textmusterwandel anhand einschlägiger Textsorten der Gebrauchsliteratur der jüngeren Sprachgeschichte (Presse- und Erbauungsschrifttum). Trotz der sprachhistorischen Bedeutung der betrachteten Textsorten erfolgten Untersuchungen zu deren Textmusterwandel bislang nur ...

Duration: 06/2019 - 12/2022

Funded by: DFG

Heterogeneous Cultures of Resistance: Communicative Practices of Resistance from 1933 to 1945

Despite permanent danger to their lives, numerous individuals decided to resist during German National Socialism. There actions were diverse and not always spectacular, but they always found expressions in individual, heterogeneous communicative practices. The DFG-funded project "HetWiK" (Heterogeneous Cultures of Resistance: Communicative ...

Duration: 05/2018 - 04/2021

Funded by: DFG

TAP – Text Analysis Portal

The “Text Analysis Portal” (TAP) is a web-based blended learning module that is used to teach German Linguistics at the University of Paderborn. The portal is implemented in the university’s learning management system Moodle (called “PANDA”) and is used there in the basic seminar “Introduction to Text Linguistics”. The core of the TAP are ...

Duration: 01/2014 - 12/2024