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Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienkultur

English translation: Institute for Communications and Media Culture

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German term or phrase:	Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienkultur
English translation:	Institute for Communications and Media Culture

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12:14 Nov 22, 2011

The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2011-11-26 12:54:08 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)

German to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy / name of university institute

German term or phrase: Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienkultur

Title of an institute, part of a German university.

Walden KudoZ activity Questions: 5 (none open) Answers: 0
Local time: 23:43

Institute for Communications and Media Culture

Explanation:
... provided this is about Leuphana-Universität Lüneburg.

Compare http://www.leuphana.de/institute/ifkm.html and http://www.leuphana.de/en/institute-zentren.html

Selected response from:

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 00:43

Grading comment

Thanks to all!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

3 +4

Institute for Communications and Media Culture

Steffen Walter

4 +1

Institute of Communication and Media Studies

philgoddard

Institute for Communications Studies and Media Culture

Laura Noonan

3 +1

Institute of Media and Communication Science

Cilian O'Tuama

3 +1

Institute of Communication Sciences and Media Culture

Ramey Rieger

Discussion entries: 17

Walden

ASKER

Wonderful

06:57 Nov 24, 2011

...how comforting that thought can be. Thanks, Ramey.

Ramey Rieger

No big deal Walden

06:22 Nov 24, 2011

It's a mad world................

Andrew Swift

United Kingdom

Recycling

14:12 Nov 23, 2011

You can't go far wrong on KudoZ if you tell the enquirer that his/her original hunch was correct.

Walden

ASKER

You're right, Andrew

13:40 Nov 23, 2011

I should have told you the whole story. I was doing too much at once and didn't think the whole process through before posing the question. And -- sorry Ramey -- I wasn't being coy. Just too rushed! In fact, apologies to one and all for any inconvenience, annoyance, wasted time, irritation, nettled nerves, etc. Back to my main task for the week: trying to yank together a technical training manual that sounds like it was written by a 12-year-old. sigh

Andrew Swift

United Kingdom

Institute for Communications and Media Culture

12:43 Nov 23, 2011

This received 4 votes because "it is the official name of the institute". I wonder whether it would have been so wholeheartedly endorsed if the real question had been put in the first place, i.e. "Does this sound all right in English?"

Ramey Rieger

Which

12:22 Nov 23, 2011

is??

Walden

ASKER

Resolution

12:03 Nov 23, 2011

Well, you've made an institute happy. Having been made aware, at a double remove, of the discussion going on here, Leuphana weighed up all the options and decided to stay with what they had. Thanks from them for your help.

Walden

ASKER

Not just that, though.

17:48 Nov 22, 2011

I'm sure the discussion has been useful.

Andrew Swift

United Kingdom

Ironic

17:15 Nov 22, 2011

At the moment, they are just getting the contents of their existing website fed back to them (+4).

Ramey Rieger

Definately "of"

17:13 Nov 22, 2011

no question for a native speaker of English.

Walden

ASKER

16:43 Nov 22, 2011

The question is, does the university have it right? There is, apparently, a debate going on, over there.

philgoddard

15:54 Nov 22, 2011

So does she have the final vote on our answers? :-)

Walden

ASKER

It's Leuphana University

15:48 Nov 22, 2011

Just thought you folks should know. Thanks for all your responses thus far! I posted the question for a friend of mine, and I'm forwarding your answers to her.

Andrew Swift

United Kingdom

UK government ministeries

15:24 Nov 22, 2011

and departments were always 'of' but nowadays seem to be 'for'. Could be that 'of' sounds somehow complacent while 'for' sounds proactive and dynamic.

philgoddard

15:16 Nov 22, 2011

'Institute for' gets 1.3 million Google hits. 'Institute of' gets 286 million.

Andrew Swift

United Kingdom

Leuphana

14:41 Nov 22, 2011

The English-language site can't seem to decide on whether their various institutes are 'of' or 'for'.

Cilian O'Tuama

@Asker

12:42 Nov 22, 2011

Which university is it then? If Leuphana, then maybe Steffen's; if Ilmenau, then maybe mine...

Answers

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Institute of Media and Communication Science

Explanation:
one possibility, used by some universities

Different universities probably have different names for it

Cilian O'Tuama
Local time: 00:43
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 65

6 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Institute of Communication Sciences and Media Culture

Explanation:
OR

Communications and Media Culture Institute
Institute of the Communication Sciences and Media Culture

etc.

Ramey Rieger
Local time: 00:43
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 31

9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienkultur

Institute for Communications and Media Culture

Explanation:
... provided this is about Leuphana-Universität Lüneburg.

Compare http://www.leuphana.de/institute/ifkm.html and http://www.leuphana.de/en/institute-zentren.html

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 00:43
Works in field
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 208

Grading comment

Thanks to all!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

writeaway: it's the only place I saw it as well. wondered if they already had their own English version but no time to look. Hard not to use this......

5 mins

neutral

Andrew Swift: Hi Steffen. Does 'Institut für xxx-kultur' sound OK in German? Because 'Institute for xxx Culture' sounds pretty lame in English.

2 hrs

-> Yes, I think it does. If this is about Leuphana Lüneburg, however, we'd have to use the established English name anyway.

neutral

Cilian O'Tuama: aha, so it is Leuphana after all - good guess :-) // but if they themselves are not happy with it, I'll change to neutral. /// See one of Asker's notes in discussion box.

3 hrs

-> Where is the internal university debate? Have I been missing something?

agree

Gabriella Bertelmann: agree

3 hrs

agree

Nicola Wood

4 hrs

agree

Ramey Rieger: Institute of...please

4 hrs

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Institute of Communication and Media Studies

Explanation:
It would be wrong to translate "Wissenschaft" as "science" here - it means "scholarship", ie studies. And would you really say "I have a degree in media culture"? No, again, I think you'd stay studies, which in English conveniently covers both "Wissenschaft" and "Kultur".

In fact, "communication and media" is something of a tautology in English, because media are by definition forms of communication. However, if you said "institute of media studies", people would think you'd left something out.

Reference: http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType...

philgoddard
Local time: 17:43
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 11

4 days confidence:

Institute for Communications Studies and Media Culture

Explanation:
'Communications Studies' is bit more specific than 'communications

Laura Noonan
Ireland
Local time: 23:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English

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Changes made by editors

Nov 22, 2011 - Changes made by writeaway:
Field (specific)	Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. => Education / Pedagogy
Field (write-in)	(none) => name of university institute

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