Scholars of the French language and culture conduct primarily linguistic and literary research. The main focus areas of the research include textual analysis and discourse studies, contrastive ...

The goal of this corpus based research monograph is twofold. On the one hand, the volume delivers a practice relevant theoretical framework which will enable linguists and internationally operating ...

In the text types and discourses subgroup research has been focusing on linguistic aspects of mass media and literary texts. The methods vary from text linguistics and discourse analysis to pragmatic ...

A native speaker of German, I completed an M.A.-equivalent degree (Staatsexamen) in English, German and History and later also my Ph.D. at Freie Universität Berlin in my home city. I taught German as ...