Virtual Common Ground: Language and Virtual Identity (D03)

• Subject Area: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 470106373

The research project D03 investigates the question of which linguistic means are used to construct and maintain the Common Ground in virtual communication. Using corpus and computational linguistic as well as experimental methods, two primary phenomena are investigated: the indication of group membership through positive speech (the counterpoint to hate speech), and the construction of virtual identities via linguistic self-representation, as well as via the adaptation to interlocutors in virtual lifeworlds.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1567: Virtuelle Lebenswelten
• Applicant Institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Tatjana Scheffler