Projects / Programmes
Research in Germanic Languages
January 1, 1999
- December 31, 2003
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.05.00 |
Humanities |
Linguistics |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| H350 |
Humanities |
Linguistics |
| H351 |
Humanities |
Phonetics, phonology |
| H352 |
Humanities |
Grammar, semantics, semiotics, syntax |
| H353 |
Humanities |
Lexicology |
| H360 |
Humanities |
Applied linguistics, foreign languages teaching, sociolinguistics |
| H365 |
Humanities |
Translation |
Researchers (25)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The program consists of a number of partly interrelated projects in the field of the Germanic languages, focusing on English and German, particularly in comparison and contrast with Slovenian. Our methods and techniques are basically eclectic, drawing as they do not only on the traditional “idealized” type of language research but to a large extent also on the recent “realistic” corpus-based models and the discourse-influenced approaches to language and their major insights. Our work, which in quite a few cases involves international cooperation, makes use of large computerized corpora, chiefly because in this way one can gain the kind of objective insight into and description of a given state of a natural language that was unheard-of and indeed impossible to gain in traditional terms. While monitoring key developments in linguistics world-wide, especially in contrastive language studies, we have envisioned several lines of research work concentrating on the - predominantly synchronic - analyses of grammar, lexicology, lexicography, and text linguistics as well as language pedagogy (language teaching methodology), the chief aim being the creation of a series of reference sources and language textbooks, particularly in applied linguistics, and of an efficient and firm foundation for foreign language teaching. The increasingly important cultural aspect of language has been likewise taken into account in a number of ongoing studies within the research group. The emphasis throughout is on the objective interpretation of empirical language data and on the working methods deriving from it. The results of our work will be instrumental in furthering the development of aspects of the basic linguistic science while also contributing significantly to their widespread adoption and practical application first and foremost in the fields of language teaching, translating and interpreting, lexicography, and discourse analysis. We hope to be able to publish such generalized results as can be profitably used by an international linguistic audience within a wider contrastive framework, whether in theory or in practice.
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