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27OCT 2025
Linguistics
Advances in Construction Grammar
Guest Lectures in Linguistics – WS 25/26
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04NOV 2024
Department
Talk: Obesity in the News: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Studies Perspective (05.11.2024, 6.00 pm)
Date: November 5, 2024 Time: 6.00 pm Location: Room 3.17, Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, Erlangen Language: English Abstract In this talk, I present findings from the Representations of Obesity in the News project – a recent programme of work carried out within the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science at Lancaster University. The aim of […]
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11OCT 2024
Department
In Memoriam Dr. Hubert Gburek
Das Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Friedrich-Alexander Universität trauert um Dr. Hubert Gburek, der am 2. Oktober 2024 nach längerer Krankheit verstorben ist. Hubert Gburek kam im Jahr 1972 an die FAU, wurde später zum Akademischen Oberrat befördert und bildete über viele Jahrzehnte einen wesentlichen Bestandteil der sprachwissenschaftlichen Lehre des Instituts in Erlangen und […]Das Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Friedrich-Alexander Universität trauert um Dr. Hubert Gburek, der am 2. Oktober 2024 nach längerer Krankheit verstorben ist. Hubert Gburek kam im Jahr 1972 an die FAU, wurde später zum Akademischen Oberrat befördert und bildete über viele Jahrzehnte einen wesentlichen Bestandteil der sprachwissenschaftlichen Lehre des Instituts in Erlangen und […]
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17OCT 2022
American Studies
Information for First Semester BA and Lehramt Students
The degree programs’ academic advisors will offer counseling meetings via Zoom exclusively for first semester students on October 18: BA English and American Studies (Dr. Christian Krug): 8:00-9:00 am https://fau.zoom.us/j/61522372446?pwd=WURJMngvWlc0cnVTZVlzNjhFWU5TUT09 (Meeting-ID: 615 2237 2446, Kenncode: 468451) Lehramt Gymnasium (Dr. Brigitta Mittmann): 9:00-10:00 am https://fau.zoom.us/j/69281525441?pwd=ZUsvOFpPQWJocG45QU1RdEdwMXJ2QT09 (Meeting-ID: 692 8152 5441, Kenncode: 392794) Lehramt Realschule (Dr. Klaus Lösch): […]The degree programs’ academic advisors will offer counseling meetings via Zoom exclusively for first semester students on October 18: BA English and American Studies (Dr. Christian Krug): 8:00-9:00 am https://fau.zoom.us/j/61522372446?pwd=WURJMngvWlc0cnVTZVlzNjhFWU5TUT09 (Meeting-ID: 615 2237 2446, Kenncode: 468451) Lehramt Gymnasium (Dr. Brigitta Mittmann): 9:00-10:00 am https://fau.zoom.us/j/69281525441?pwd=ZUsvOFpPQWJocG45QU1RdEdwMXJ2QT09 (Meeting-ID: 692 8152 5441, Kenncode: 392794) Lehramt Realschule (Dr. Klaus Lösch): […]
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25MAY 2022
American Studies
Two New Research Training Groups
In a great success for researchers at the Department of English and American Studies, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for two new research training groups: “Die Konstruktionsgrammatische Galaxis” and “Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in differenten Gegenwartskulturen.” The Construction Grammar Galaxy This RTG focuses on construction grammar, a theoretical approach in linguistics based on […]In a great success for researchers at the Department of English and American Studies, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for two new research training groups: “Die Konstruktionsgrammatische Galaxis” and “Literatur und Öffentlichkeit in differenten Gegenwartskulturen.” The Construction Grammar Galaxy This RTG focuses on construction grammar, a theoretical approach in linguistics based on […]
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05NOV 2021
Events
Linguistic Guest Lectures in Winter 2021/22
Explorations in Construction Grammar Click on the poster for a larger view.
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