Stephen Reader Nov 17, 2012:

So symptomatic a disc'n for a qn of (?)mentality++ ... that I'm prompted to contrib. even a y'r after orig. Q. - Ger. does like to verwissenschaftlichen, dsn't it - even to extent of legitimation. A repeated mental/transl. hurdle f. me is to keep sights on 'studies' etc. in Eng. for what's meant; and that 'Geistes*wissenschaften*' are... Humanities. Human sciences immed. calls medicine & other interfaces tween humans and technology to mind - w/Phil, incl. ans. @ Kilian below.
My other major gripe/alarm signal is re. 'pc'/ pressure of polit. correctness in trans. & service-rendering - absolutely w/ Andrew & Walden re. 'does it sound...Eng.?' - & *against* kid-gloves towards client, what a pity they lost heart re. orig. doubts. Our role as translators is surely not to accede to Emperor's Clothes, nor to flav. o'the Month ill-informed name-coining - that's no favour to clients.
End of gripe, thx, over&out. Except my own research that got me here - someone's a Kommunikationswissenschaftlerin, wot pray in E.?!?

Walden (asker) Nov 24, 2011:

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

Ramey Rieger (X) Nov 24, 2011:

No big deal Walden It's a mad world................

Lancashireman Nov 23, 2011:

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

Walden (asker) Nov 23, 2011:

You're right, Andrew 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

Lancashireman Nov 23, 2011:

Institute for Communications and Media Culture 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 (X) Nov 23, 2011:

Which is??

Walden (asker) Nov 23, 2011:

Resolution 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) Nov 22, 2011:

Not just that, though. I'm sure the discussion has been useful.

Lancashireman Nov 22, 2011:

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

Ramey Rieger (X) Nov 22, 2011:

Definately "of" no question for a native speaker of English.

Walden (asker) Nov 22, 2011:

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

philgoddard Nov 22, 2011:

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

Walden (asker) Nov 22, 2011:

It's Leuphana University 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.

Lancashireman Nov 22, 2011:

UK government ministeries 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 Nov 22, 2011:

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

Lancashireman Nov 22, 2011:

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

Cilian O'Tuama Nov 22, 2011:

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