• Linguistics Style Sheet (pdf) (updated 2022-06)
• How to read research papers (pdf)
• Template for research papers (rtf)
• Guidelines for oral presentations (pdf)
• Presentation Template (ppt)
• A Note on E-Mails (png)

Term Paper Organization

• Topic registration form, BA papers (pdf) [2020-05-13]
• Topic registration form, MA papers (pdf) [2021-03-10]
• Term paper evaluation sheet (pdf) [2018-10-23]

General Information on Module Ling2/Ling2_KW (C/III)

• Module information sheet for students (pdf) [2022-06-03]

• length:

• Lehramt – Schriftliche Hausarbeit: ca. 60 pages
• Magisterarbeit: ca. 70-80 pages
• Bachelorarbeit: ca. 25-30 pages

• (based on the style sheet for seminar papers)

  requirements:

• combination of theory and application, i.e. working with data & conducting at least some linguistic analyses of your own
• preferrably written in English

• some examples of topics that were accepted in the past:

• Lexical Change in Present-day English: A case study of the IT lexicon
• International Communication: English as Lingua Franca versus artificial languages
• Middle English Phraseology: Native Developments and Foreign Influences
• Humour in advertising:A comparison of British and German TV ads
• Metaphors in Political Speech
• Idioms in Second-Language Learning