不同于英美文化研究主要关注当代文化、种族、阶级和性别等议题的特点，德国文化学研究以语言学为根基，既关照历史也立足于当下，融合了文学、语言学、历史学、艺术学、政治学、社会学，乃至自然科学等多元学科背景，对相关文化现象进行多元异质化分析，试图建立一个跨学科合作和对话机制，并以文化作为中介来建构一种新的“问题解决型”学科范式。在当前国际新形势下，文化学研究作为一种研究范式，在学科反思、重构和重塑的同时，也关注难民、危机和气候等全球性问题，在国际化、多元化研究视野和跨国研究方法中寻找学科进路。

Different from British and American culture studies tradition, which mainly focus on issues like contemporary culture, race, class and gender, German study of culture is based on linguistics, looking at both history and the present, integrating multiple disciplinary backgrounds such as literature, linguistics, history, art, political science, sociology, and even natural science. Through analyzing the relevant cultural phenomena in a pluralistic and heterogeneous way, this subject tries to establish a mechanism for interdisciplinary cooperation and dialogue, and to construct a new “problem-solving” paradigm using culture as media. Under the current international situation, the study of culture, as a kind of research paradigm, pays attention to global issues such as refugees, crisis and climate change and paves its way through internationalization, pluralism research horizons and transnational research methods, while reflecting, reconstructing, and reshaping the discipline system at the same time.