The language of the humanities
The Herder Institute at Leipzig University is systematically investigating the language of the humanities for the first time in a new project. It is intended to make a contribution to the new research profile area "Language and Culture in the Digital Age".
The project creates a valuable starting point for a better understanding of the linguistic nature of cognitive processes in the humanities, writes Leipzig University. In this way, the important role of language in science can also be communicated to society. This is important not least because of the increasing establishment of English as a global means of communication in the sciences, as it offers a starting point for determining the performance of the German general scientific language for the humanities in more detail.
The question of the special language-bound nature of this group of subjects also plays an important role in this new project. It also asks what would be lost if German were to be abandoned in favor of a universal academic language.
More info: www.uni-leipzig.de/herder
