Prof Dr Michael Szurawitzki researches and publishes in the following areas:
- German as a foreign language (especially specialised and academic language, text routines)
- Grammar of the contemporary German language
- Sociolinguistics
- Text linguistics
- Media linguistics, including interaction in social networks, advertising language (including historical, multimodal and with a focus on language contact), messenger communication, orality and writing
- Contrastive and intercultural linguistics
- Linguistic analysis of literary texts
Prof. Dr Maria Thurmair researches and publishes in the following areas:
Text linguistics/text grammar; text variety linguistics; (modal) particles; comparisons and comparative structures; word formation; morphology; syntax; proper names; scientific language and scientific communication; orality/writing; spoken language; norm changes; art communication;
Pedagogy and grammar teaching; text type-orientated grammar; methodology/didactics; literature in the classroom; normative issues;
Textbooks and didactic publications
