On Friday 22nd February, three students from the Alpen-Adria University (AAU), Magdalena Mitterberger (BA Applied Economics), Linda Valentin-Mullen (BA English and American Studies) and Neira Delalic (MA English and American Studies) participated in an English-language debate workshop hosted at the British Ambassador’s Residence in Vienna. The workshop was organised by the British Embassy to give […]
Forthcoming Publication & Upcoming Event: Eva-Maria Graf’s „The Pragmatics of Executive Coaching” will be published in April 2019 as part of John Benjamin’s Pragmatics and Beyond New Series (303). The monograph and coaching as a new and innovative research field in applied linguistics will be the focus of an event in June 2019. Read more →
A position as post-doctoral researcher at the Department of English and American Studies brought Matthias Klestil to Klagenfurt from Bayreuth. His research currently focuses on material from literature and films, which addresses versionality and coincidence. In our interview with Matthias Klestil, he tells us about the paths that led him to Klagenfurt, and he reveals what he finds fascinating about the USA.
The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy and Alice Walker. This paper aims to investigate that power and explain the psychological and cultural mechanisms behind it. Read more →
When President Donald Trump addresses the nation, he often resorts to discriminatory stereotypes when referring to African American, Mexican American and Muslim American communities. The narrative that suggests that these groups represent a threat to the American nation is shaping a number of current debates, but there are also important counternarratives. Within the scope of a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), scholars from the field of American Studies are investigating how ethnic American literary texts are inviting readers to imaginatively step into the shoes of a character who is different from themselves and to see the world through that character’s eyes.
Listeners make predictions about upcoming sentence material during language processing. Monolingual English and monolingual German listeners can use contrastive pitch accents to predict upcoming referents (e.g. Ito & Speer, 2008; Weber, Braun, & Crocker, 2006). For example, when hearing Click on the blue book. Click on the RED… (where CAPS indicate a contrastive pitch accent), […]
The talk aims at introducing the GLAD-project, whose aim it is to create a Global Anglicism Database. In a first step, a brief outline of the project – as it presently stands – will be given. In planning a database or a dictionary – no matter whether on paper or in electronic form – a […]
Samstag, 26.Mai 2018, 9:00 – 16:00 Die seit 2008 jährlich stattfindende Nachwuchstagung der ÖGSD hat zum Ziel, wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs im Forschungsfeld der Sprachdidaktik ein Präsentationsforum zu bieten und Forschende verschiedener Philologien, Fachdidaktiken und der Lehrer_innenbildung, die den Gegenstand „Sprache“ unter didaktisch-methodischer Schwerpunktsetzung untersuchen, miteinander zu vernetzen. Es sind sowohl konzeptuelle als auch empirische Beiträge zu […]
From its beginnings, the road movie has shaped ideas about America both in the United States and beyond. While numerous scholars have examined this national dimension, they have paid very little attention to the environmental dimension of the genre. Most road movies make heavy use of shots of the natural environment through which the travelers […]
In the more than 300 years of learning and teaching English in German-speaking countries we find evidence of innovative methods, customized teaching materials, a wide range of practices as well as examples of theoretical and empirical research. Some developments have been forgotten, others exert an influence on the field of ELT to this day. […]
