Research

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

• Specialist language from the synchronic and diachronic perspectives (Centre for the Research of Professional Language)
• Means of expressing emotionality in German and in German-Czech contrast
• Interlingual comparison of disinformation texts from the perspective of 21^st 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 20^th 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 21^st 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 20^th century
  
  

Mgr. Milan Pišl, Ph.D.

• Interlingual comparison of disinformation texts from the perspective of 21^st 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
  
  

Dr. Agnes Kim

• (Historical) sociolinguistics
• Multilingualism and language contact with a focus on German (in Austria) and Czech
• Metalexicography and practical lexicography
• Corpus linguistics
  
  

Mgr. et Mgr. et Mgr. Marek Gajda, Ph.D. et Ph.D.

• Language and emotions in German, Czech and English
• The theory and practice of translation
• Professional language
  
  

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

• Das medizinische Kompendium des >Juden von Salms<
• Beiträge zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft - Festschrift für Lenka Vaňková
• Das Fachwort in der Tagespresse 0,05 MB
• Fachlichkeit und Fachsprachlichkeit in varianten Kontexten 2,48 MB
• Fachliches in der Presse
• Medizinische Texte aus böhmischen und mährischen Archiven und Bibliotheken (14.-16. Jahrhundert)
• Lexikalische Ausdrucksmittel der Emotionalität im Deutschen und im Tschechischen 0,33 MB
• Fachkommunikation im Wandel 1,31 MB
• Textverständlichkeit und Textstruktur in der Wissensvermittlung 1,33 MB
• Emotionalität im Text 2,46 MB
• Fachtexte des Spätmittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit 0,16 MB

Updated: 15. 10. 2025