Prof. Dr. Monika Sokol

Faculty of Information Science and Communication Studies

Institute of Translation and Multilingual Communication

Prof. Dr. Monika Sokol

Campus Südstadt
Ubierring 48
50678 Köln
Room 454 Mailing address


  • Phone: +49 221-8275-3311

Office hours

Advisery services for the Bachelor's degree program in Multilingual Communication:

Campus Südstadt, Ubierring 48
In case you are interested in or about to apply for the Bachelor's degree program in Multilingual Communication: Please first consult the resources we have compiled for you on our program websites (links 'Application' and 'For Students (PO 8)'). For higher-level questions regarding application and admission, please contact the central study office of the TH Köln (https://www.th-koeln.de/studium/studienbuero-campus-suedstadt_5312.php). If you have questions about the study program itself, please contac the study program team via bamk-infodesk@th-koeln.de. If you have more detailed counseling needs, you can send an appointment request for a consultation with the head of the study program to the address ,bamk-infodesk@th-koeln.de': Appointments will be coordinated and options suggested by the team. The counseling sessions will take place on the date accepted by you by telephone or - if this was agreed in advance - in ZOOM. Please note that your questions may eventually be answered in German.

Positions

  • Academic adviser
  • Head of the Bachelor's program "Multilingual Communication"
  • Member of the ITMK Institute Board

Responsibilities

  • Advisory services for high school students and others interested in studying BA Multilingual Communication (please contact ,bamk-infodesk@th-koeln.de' to make an appointment for a personal advising session).

Teaching disciplines

  • Linguistics, Language Sciences Romance Languages, German
  • Communication Studies
  • Comparative Cultural Studies Media Culture and Popular Culture Studies
  • Media Sciences, Media Communication Studies
  • Translation Studies and Practice Translating from French to German (B.A. and M.A. level)

Research fields

  • Translation Studies, Didactics of Translation
  • Comparative Media Semiotics and Media Style Studies
  • Contemporary popular music traditions in cross-cultural comparison. Different and changing patterns of cultural adaptation and translation of popular genres using rap and hip hop as a case study.
  • Cultural Framing in language and non-language focussed settings
  • Theory of Grammar, Comparison of Grammatical Correlation Types (syntax, verbal and nominal categories)
  • Hans Löwel-Award 1998 (Doctoral Thesis)

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