Research

Research at the Department of German Studies focuses on several areas:

  • Specialist language from the synchronic and diachronic perspectives
  • Means of expressing emotionality in German and in German-Czech contrast
  • Interlingual comparison of disinformation texts from the perspective of 21st century linguistics
  • German-language literature in Moravia and Silesia
  • Cultural history of selected Silesian aristocratic residences
  • Analysis of textbooks of German as a foreign language
  • Didactics of German grammar

The Department also provides:

  • German language courses for the Faculty's Department of History
  • general German language courses for the entire Faculty and University

The individual Department staff members focus on the following areas:

prof. PhDr. Lenka Vaňková, Dr.

  • Development of the German language (especially the administrative and professional language of the Early New High German period)
  • Contemporary professional language
  • Linguistics of emotions

doc. et doc. Mgr. Iveta Zlá, Ph.D.

  • German literature in Silesia
  • The role of nobility in the history of European literature, culture, and education
  • The church and religion through the prism of European literary and educational history
  • German literature from the Baroque period to the end of the first half of the 20th century

doc. Mgr. Martin Mostýn, Ph.D.

  • Professional language
  • Means of expressing emotionality in German and in German-Czech contrast
  • Metalexicographical and corpus-based linguistic research on word formation doublets in German
  • Interlingual comparison of disinformation texts from the perspective of 21st century linguistics

PhDr. Irena Šebestová, CSc.

  • Literary and cultural life of the German-speaking population in the Hlučín Region
  • German-language literature in the second half of the 20th century

Mgr. Eva Cieślarová, Ph.D.

  • Specialist language
  • Linguistic means of expressing emotionality
  • Comparative Czech-German phraseology

Mgr. Milan Pišl, Ph.D.

  • Interlingual comparison of disinformation texts from the perspective of 21st century linguistics
  • Translation and interpreting theory and practice, computer-assisted translation, machine translation systems, and the use of artificial intelligence in text translation
  • Corporate communication in management and business, German for business practice
  • Professional language (especially business German)
  • Means of expressing emotionality in German and in German-Czech contrast
  • Cultural and project management

Mgr. Eva Polášková, Ph.D.

  • Analysis of textbooks of German as a foreign language
  • Didactics of German grammar
  • Professional language

The Department of German Studies has recently published the following books:


Updated: 06. 02. 2025