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Ihr Institut für Linguistik
Profile of Linguistics and Phonetics in Cologne
The Department of Linguistics is characterized by its engagement in methodologically and thematically large areas of linguistic theories and phenomena:
- language typology
- documentation and description of endangered languages (fieldwork)
- (intercultural) communication
- pragmatics and discourse analysis
- prosody and intonation
- articulatory modelling
- experimental phonology
- Indo-European languages
- language comparison and reconstruction
- computational linguistics
As the basis for communication, language is embedded in a social and cultural context. Additionally to the description and explanation of structural phenomena, language research must also incorporate – both for scientific and practical reasons – phenomena such as communication objectives and effects, language variation determined by society, language change etc.