Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (LiLi) (“Journal for Literary Studies and Linguistics”) has been offering a programmatic bridge between German linguistics and German literary studies since 1971. All issues are published in alternate editions as topical issues of modern literary studies, medieval studies and linguistics, focusing on media and cultural studies and combining theoretical and historical approaches. The Labor (“Laboratory”) section contains research contributions in German or English language that are independent of the respective thematic issue and contribute to the transitional area between Germanic linguistics, German literary studies, and cultural studies.