The FRIAS School of Language & Literature (LiLi), with Peter Auer (linguistics) and Werner Frick (literary studies) as its Directors and Gesa von Essen as Scientific Coordinator, aims to be a research institution of international stature in its field. It advocates an approach to literary studies and linguistics which is theoretically and methodologically advanced and has strong interdisciplinary inclinations. The School is made up of two branches – one in linguistics, the other in literary studies – which carry equal weight, and its research emphases correspond with the profiles of the respective disciplines at the University of Freiburg. This means, in linguistics, the empirical study of language structure and language behaviour, particularly using methods from cognitive, corpus-based and interactional linguistics. In literary studies, the emphasis is on “world literature research” that is open to comparative perspectives and approaches drawn from cultural studies, with a focus on research topics in the fields of the history of knowledge, cultural semantics, as well as general poetics and aesthetics. Another central focus in LiLi’s research agenda is the exploration of productive intersections between linguistics and literary studies.

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Coming Up 

Workshop: Left/Right-Asymmetries in Conversational Language

Date: 16. May -17. May 2012
Location: FRIAS, Albertstr. 19, seminar room, ground floor
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News

• Additional positions offered to LiLi School Junior Fellows

• Scholars from Serbia and Spain win tandem-fellowship in linguistics and literary studies

• Austrian linguist with a two-year Humboldt scholarship joins the LiLi School as a guest researcher

• Prestigious positions offered to LiLi School Junior Fellows

• Stefan Hermes and Sebastian Kaufmann win 2012 competition for LiLi young researchers conference

• Ausschreibung Forschungsstipendien (Internal Senior Research Fellowships)

• Ausschreibung FORSCHUNGSPREIS der FRIAS School of Language & Literature

• Volume 10 of the FRIAS "linguae & litterae" series published
  

• Volume 11 of the FRIAS "linguae & litterae" series published

• Announcement Tandem-Fellowship for “Linguistics and Literary Studies"

• Unnatural Narratives: Volume 9 of FRIAS „linguae & litterae“ series published

• Grants for linguistic research projects approved
  

• Seventh Volume of the FRIAS Journal series „linguae & litterae“ published
  
• FRIAS Lili School hosted the 6th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe