Interpretability in Context (A02)

• Subject Area: Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics ; General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
• Term: from 2009 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 75650358

The work of project A2 in the third phase will inform research on speech acts. It will bring to light un-der-investigated speech acts occurring in non-assertive linguistic situations. In addition to an interpre-tive analysis of these speech acts, it will contribute to our understanding of the semantics/pragmatics interface in general. The fictional nature of our linguistic material is contrasted with non-fictional utter-ance types and highlights the component parts that go into mapping a semantic to a pragmatic mean-ing. Various aspects of this mapping such as presuppositions, reference, speech acts, etc. are inves-tigated. The notion of context is examined from the perspective of fictional and iterated contexts.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 833: Emergence of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Matthias Bauer; Professorin Dr. Sigrid Beck