Discourse Studies
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- New publication: Bonifazi, Anna. Forthcoming. The Special Grammar of Multimodal Macro-Segments in Oral Epic Storytelling. In The Special Grammar of Traditional Literature: Studies Building upon Albert Lord's "Special Grammar”, R. Person (ed.). Boston and Leiden: Brill.
- New publication: Bonifazi, Anna & David F. Elmer. 2016 (online). Visuality in Bosniac and Homeric Epic. Classics@14. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. 2024 (print). In Singers and Tales in the Twenty-First Century, D. F. Elemer and P. McMurray (eds.), 123-154. The Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature. Distributed by Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA.
- New publication: di Bartolo, G. und D. Kölligan. 2024. Postclassical Greek: Problems and Perspectives, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter (Trends in Classics - Greek & Latin Linguistics Series).
- New publication: Bonifazi, Anna and Pinelopi Ioannidou. 2024. Cross- and multimodal anaphoric references in mystery movies: A cognitive perspective. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 12: 229-258.
- New publication: di Bartolo, Giuseppina. (2024). "Discourse Analysis", in Reference Module in Social Sciences, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.00037-5
- Are you interested in the transcription of conversations? Here we have a brief tutorial by a PhD student of our Department of Linguistics about the 2022-launched software DOTE!
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APLL17, 21-23 July: registration open
The 17th International Conference on Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics (APLL) will take place from 21-23.07.2025 at the University of Cologne. Registration is now open: please visit https://apll17.sciencesconf.org/ and go to the ‘Registration’ tab in the upper left corner. A preliminary programme is also available on the conference website. Registration is open until May 31st. There is no registration fee for APLL17 but registration is obligatory for both presenters and audience members. We look forward to seeing you there!
Multifactor authentication: Cisco Duo
To protect your data and devices and to prevent cyberattacks, all students are required to use the multifactor authentication Cisco Duo starting May 5, 2025.
PhD position available
A PhD position is available for the Documenting Languages and Ethnobiological Knowledge (DocuLEK) project, funded jointly by the French and German research agencies (ANR-DFG)
Vacancy Student Assistant (IT)
The Department of Linguistics (General and Historical-Comparative Linguistics) has an immediate vacancy for a SHK or WHB in the IT area (between 9 and 19 hours per week). Please send applications in digital form to Dr Claudia Wegener (claudia.wegener[at]uni-koeln.de).
Lunch & Linguistics
The Lunch & Linguistics lecture series invites researchers to present their projects in an informal setting. Dates and venue can be found in the program.
Dr. Svenja Bonmann admitted to Junges Kolleg
We congratulate Dr. Svenja Bonmann, who will be accepted as a fellow of the Young Academy (Junges Kolleg) of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts (Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste) on 1 January 2025. The fellowship not only offers financial freedom for her own research, but the admission is also an important honour that enables exchange with other excellent young researchers.