Student Projects, M.A. & PhD Theses

Student Computing Projects

• Compare English-German translations
• Search engine for the ICE-East African Corpus (Alexander Bartsch)
• Lampeter Corpus manual (Jens Rempel)
• Questionnaires in the Chemnitz Internet Grammar
• Searching & indexing technical terms in the Chemnitz Internet Grammar (Lars Heber)
• CheT, the Chemnitz Thesaurus to variation in English usage (Frank Hofmann)
• PhraseCount, a tool for comparing the frequency of phrases in the WWW (Thomas Blaudeck)
• Lexical methods for improving retrieval systems (Rocco Georgi)
• Updated search engine for the ICE-East Africa (Ronny Plontke, Ronny Oehlert)
• WebPhraseCount: PhraseCount updated, new statistics functions (Manuela Köhler, Uwe Völker)
• Corpus Compiler: an automatic extraction and tagging tool for newspapers on the web (Christian Zielke, Torsten Zesch, Tamàs Novàk

Selected M.A. Theses

• Phrasal Verbs in Learner English. An ICLE-based analysis of German and Italian learner's phrasal verb usage (Anja Flint, 2007)
• Teaching English for Medical Purposes (EMP) - An empirical Study of Hedge Expressions in Specialist vs. Non-Specialist Academic Writing (Peggy Hoinka, 2007)
• Code-Switching Practices in Popular Indian Cinema (Eva Lösch, 2007)
• Linguistic Approaches to Irony - an Analysis of British Newspaper Comments (7,5 MB) (Tina Stanel, 2006)
• Early Second Language Acquisition in Saxony’s Nursery Schools (2,2 MB) (Sylvia Voigt, 2006)
• English Monolingual Advanced Learners’ Dictionaries on CD-ROM: A Comparative Evaluation (full version, 3,2 MB), version minus appendices 1 MB) (Kerstin May, 2006)
• The Acquisition of the English Tense and Aspect System by German Adult Learners (Kristiane Dürich, 2005)
• Testing Techniques for English Tenses and Prepositions Compared: A Computer-Based and a Paper-and-Pencil Test of Grammar (Katrin Uhlig, 2005)
• Testing Techniques for English Tenses and Prepositions Compared: A Computer-Based and a Paper-and-Pencil Test of Grammar (Katrin Uhlig, 2005)
• Modals in Kenyan English A contrastive corpus analysis of modals in the ICE-K and the ICE-GB. (Katja Seidel, 2004) (URZ-Login required!)
• The Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains) - not quite the same as the Lake District - Eine komparative Analyse deutscher und englischer Tourismusbroschüren (Gunnar Lahr, 2003). Artikel in der Freien Presse vom 13.9.2002
• Aspects of change in film dubbing. An analysis of Sliding doors and Sie liebt ihn - sie liebt ihn nicht. (Katrin Voigt, 2002)
• Neue Medien im Sprachunterricht (Ralf Günther, 2001)
• English and Maltese in Malta (Nadine Angermann, 2001)
• Anglizismen im Sportteil der "Freien Presse" 1985 und 1995. Eine Untersuchung (Kati Tautenhahn)
• Humour in Advertising (Katrin Machleid, 1998)

Dissertations

The department offers excellent research opportunities and a number of scientific search projects have been completed by now. Among them were the following dissertations:
 

• Hildegard Schäffler. Kulturspezifische Probleme der englisch-deutschen Übersetzung: lexikalische und pragmatische Aspekte, 14.04.1997
• Claudia Claridge. The Way of Words: Multi-word Verbs in Early Modern English. A Study Based on the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts, 04.11.1998
• Marie-Luise Egbert. Lexical Repetition in English-German Literary Translation, 07.10.1998
• Diana Hudson-Ettle. Grammatical Subordination Strategies in Differing Text Types in the English Spoken and Written in Kenya, April 1998
• Miriam Zeh-Glöckler. Soziolinguistische Aspekte des Umgangs mit Englisch in sächsischen Unternehmen nach 1989, 22.07.1999
• Paul Skandera. Drawing a map of Africa: Idiom in Kenyan English, Mai 2001
• Christoph Haase. Kognitive Repräsentation von Temporalität im Englischen und im Deutschen, 06.12. 2002
• Serah Mwangi. Prepositions in Kenyan English: A Corpus-based Study in Lexical-grammatical Variation, 26.06.2003
• Samuel Ngwa Atechi. The Intelligibility of Native and Non-Native English Speech: A Comparative Analysis of Cameroon English and American and British English, Juni 2004
• Sylva Michèle Sternkopf. Language and Business - International Communication Strategies in Saxon Small and Medium-Sized Companies, Juli 2004
• Balbina Mesue Ebong. The Use of Indigenous Techniques of Communication in Language Learning: the Case of Cameroon, Juli 2004

 
Works in progress:
 

• Rainer Siemund. Changing points of view: the expansion of epistemic modalities in Early Modern English
• Tim Jones. Webseite und Kultur. Eine sprach- und kulturwissenschaftliche Analyse kommerzieller Webseiten in Englisch
• Isabel Heller. Lehr- und Lernerfolg mit deduktivem und induktivem Instruktionsmaterial am Beispiel konkreter Grammatiksektionen der InternetGrammar. Eine Evaluation und Analyse.
• Katrin Voigt. Kognitive Modelle des Grammatikerwerbs unter Berücksichtigung von Tense/Aspect.

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