Research and postgraduate studies

The research projects and some of the theses of the department will be primarily directed towards the following focus areas:

• Research in cultural and linguistic diversity
• Conversation and interaction research
• Language technology and corpus research

The department possesses in all these fields diverse competence and through this competence good opportunities also for cooperation crossing discipline and department borders.

There is strong research competence focusing on other themes in the disciplines of the department. Emerging fields include research of concepts and intellectual history and Europe research. The department boasts research traditions with regard to the first theme, for example, in questions pertaining to the tradition of textual interpretation.  The latter theme, especially as by definition it includes Russia research, lies at the core of the geographical territory of the department.

The aim is that all instructors research and/or write publicly available study materials and that all researchers also instruct.