In the area of science and research, the IG focuses on the following aspects:

Literary Science:

• Swiss literature written in German from the late 19th century to the present
• theory and history of crime literature
• transtextuality, intermediality and metafictionality
• the history of Slovak literary German studies after 1945, with a focus on the reception of Swiss German-language literature
• Slovak reception of German literature of the 18th and 19th centuries
• the author's fairy tale of German Romanticism
• horror and ghost stories in German literature of the 18th and 19th centuries
• contemporary Swiss literature written in German
• contemporary Austrian literature

 Linguistics:

• Comparative Slovak-German derivatology
• pragmalinguistics
• corpus linguistics
• contrastive linguistic research
• verb valency
• sociolinguistics
• textual linguistics
• professional language
• didactics and methodology of teaching German as a foreign language

Translatology:

• Cognitive Science and Translatology
• didactics of translation and interpreting
• criticism of artistic translation
• the establishment of translatology as an independent discipline
• theory of translation of professional texts
• revision of translation