Nina Janich is Professor of German Studies: Applied Linguistics at TU Darmstadt. Her research focuses on how language is used in science, e.g. when a scientific text is considered a ‘good’ text; what difficulties may arise when scientists from different subjects attempt to exchange ideas with each other; how science can be communicated to the public. She is also interested in questions of language culture and language criticism. This is one of the reasons why she has been a spokesperson for the critical language-awareness campaign ‘Unwort des Jahres’ (Un-word of the year) for years.