Strategic Common Ground Updates: How Pragmatic Inferences are Used in Public Discourse (C03)

• 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

Project C3 investigates the strategic role of pragmatic inferences in the actualization of common ground in socio-cultural contexts. It is primarily concerned with strategies and positioning methods in public discourse (politics, advertising), but also takes a comparative look at the role of pragmatic inferences in literary texts. The project combines formal semantics / pragmatics and linguistic discourse analysis.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1718: Common Ground: Cognition - Grammar - Communication
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Dr. Mark Dang-Anh; Professorin Dr. Irene Rapp