Applied linguistics
Applied linguistics addresses various socially relevant areas in which linguistics can be applied, such as research on language minorities, language policy, linguistic prejudice, organisational linguistics, media communication, language teaching and learning, and ecolinguistics.
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Anouschka Foltz (Institute for English Studies):
- Language and language policy
- linguistic prejudice research
- media communication
- language learning research
Karoline Marko (Institute for English Studies):
- Forensic Linguistics
- especially author analysis
- style analysis
- Computer-mediated discourse & communication (incl. multimodal phenomena such as emoji)
Veronika Mattes (Institute for Linguistics):
Language learning research (written language acquisition)
Hermine Penz (Institute for English Studies):
- intercultural communication in institutional contexts
- climate change communication
- ecoliteracy
- ecolinguistics
Margit Reitbauer (Institute for English Studies):
- Content and Language Integrated Learning
- Reading research, computer-mediated communication
- discourse analysis
- cognitive approaches (especially in the areas of discourse, reading and language acquisition)