Signaling and Interpreting Defectivity in Common Ground: Face-to-Face, Voice-Only, and Text-Only Communication (C02)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
• Term: since 2025
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 538184825

C2’s research question is which strategies interlocutors use to avoid increasing common ground defectiveness in ironic utterances in non-standard communication media such as social media, involving massive multilogues. C2 will test if the CG update mechanisms (conventional and conversational) described for linguistically co-present communication (with verbal, prosodic, gestural cues) can extend to text-only communication in social media (with e.g., textual cues, emojis). Using multimodal and cross-linguistic data (from English and Turkish) from annotated corpora, experiments, and surveys, findings will refine standard CG models to fit diverse and restricted communication scenarios.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1718: Common Ground: Cognition - Grammar - Communication
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Head: Dr. Cagri Cöltekin