Cornelius Puschmann's website
Research & Teaching
Linguistics
- computer-mediated communication
- corpus and text linguistics
- pragmatics
- style / register / genre / domain-specific language (business, academia)
Information Science
- (scholarly) communication on the Internet
- open access and open knowledge production
- digital methods in teaching and research
I consider myself both an Internet scholar and a digital humanist.
Projects
Junior Researchers Group "Science and the Internet" (2010-2012)
The Junior Researchers Group "Science and the Internet" is an interdisciplinary team of eight researchers (seven postdocs and one doctoral student) situated at the University of Düsseldorf. It was launched in October 2010 and will be funded by a unversity start-up grant for the duration of two years. The group aims to investigate different aspects of the Internet's impact on scholarship in research and teaching, including the semantics of the terms publishing and publication in the digital age, the dissemination and discussion of academic research in blogs and on Twitter, collaborative learning in 3D environments, and the perception of legal aspects of scholarship by non-experts. More information about our activities can be found on the project website (in German).
eLanguage.net (2006-)
The goal of the eLanguage project, which was initiated by the Linguistic Society of America in 2006, is to house a wide range of open access e-journals devoted to different subfields of the discipline under a single technical and organizational umbrella. The editors of the member journals inside such a hub are fully independent, but agree on a common set of rules (peer review, a common style sheet etc). They benefit from pooling their resources, both in terms of tech support and because the content from all member journals can be centrally aggregated, increasing every single member’s visibility. I have acted as the technical manager of eLanguage since its initial launch.
Teaching
- Science and the Internet (interdisciplinary graduate student class, Summer 2011)
- Pragmatics (Summer 2010)
- Syntax (Summer 2010)
- Corpus Linguistics with R (Winter 2009 / Spring 2010, Summer 2011)
- The Pragmatics of Business Communication (Winter 2008 / Spring 2009)
- Introduction to English Linguistics Parts I & II (Winter 2007 / Spring 2008, Summer 2008, Winter 2010/2011, Summer 2011)
- Corpus Linguistics on and through the Internet (Summer 2005, with Theresa Heyd)
last modified 2011-02-12