spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Ines Bose
(funding 2017-2019, 2020-2022)

The Vladimir Admoni Program supports a new generation of young researchers in the field of German studies in the countries of Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and in the Middle East/North Africa region in the form of a “Small Doctoral School”. The target group is graduate students (Masters) who are aiming for a doctorate and who, according to their own wishes, on the basis of their personal and professional aptitude and in accordance with the university’s intentions, are to represent the future generation of young academics. [read more]

Current research topics are:

• Updates of the frame tolerance in the discourse of migration in Russian, German and American print media
• Interferences at the phono-stylistic level in the learning of German as a foreign language with special consideration of technical language aspects
• Prosodic and paralingual characteristics of speech situations greetings / congratulations in Russian, German, Italian and Spanish
• Phono-stylistic characteristics of business news in consideration of the auditory perception

Partners:

• Universität Hamburg
• WGU Woronesh
• FEFU Wladiwostok

spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Andrea Jäger, coordinator: Johannes Brambora

The contents of the study program are designed to make the interdisciplinary dialogue from the individual philologies fruitful for an understanding of modern societies in terms of cultural studies and to relate to discourse patterns of different language areas and cultures. Within the framework of the offered research program, the literary, comparative and linguistic approaches and methods are devoted primarily to the interrelationships of influence between literature or language and the formations of social and cultural reality from the 19th century to the present. Following the procedures of postmodern theory-building to focus on the constructed nature of social reality, the reality of social constructs is the focus of research interest here. [read more]

With the doctoral program Language – Literature – Society, the Faculty of Philosophy II of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg provides a research-oriented, interdisciplinarily structured teaching programme for doctoral candidates in linguistics, speech and literature., website