FOR 5182: Controversial discourses: Language history as contemporary history since 1990

FOR 5182：有争议的话语：1990年以来作为当代史的语言史

• 批准号: 441142207
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft (GS)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/441142207?language=en
• 关键词: 5182; Controversial; discourses; Language; history

The planned research group aims to review and present the most recent history of the German language by examining a wide range of controversial discourses since 1990. In contrast to historiography, “linguistic history as contemporary history” is only practiced in individual studies on, for example, the climate protection discourse, the economic crisis discourse or the discourse on embryonic stem cell research. An overall presentation covering the most important subject areas of public-political debates is a desideratum for the period since the unification of the two German nation states in 1990.The aim of the Research Unit proposed here is to close this gap. Research will be carried out on the basis of the linguistic theory of the reality-constitutive power of language. From this perspective it follows that an explanation of how the respective “realities” in different thematic fields were linguistically constructed and enforced, can be regarded as a valuable contribution to contemporary historiography, especially as historiography is all too often characterized by discourse oblivion: it describes for instance economic crises without reflecting on the linguistic-discursive construction of reality which makes the perception of such “crises” possible in the first place. This socially relevant research objective can only be implemented in a larger collaborative project and in two funding phases since it will cover a large number of interrelated topics extending over a period of 30 years. In the preparatory work for this application, the research group developed hypotheses on basic discourse semantic figures that can be used to bundle these topics into project tandems and through which their respective controversial potential can be focused.Moreover, over the last decades an intense methodological discussion in discourse linguistics has developed. It has established a broad field of research offering a wide range of methods that can significantly enhance the representativity, reliability and va-lidity of the language historical results sought in the Research Unit. However, these methods also require a substantial investment of time and effort with regard to the preparation and evaluation of the corpus. In particular corpus-linguistic methods will be incorporated, which over the last ten years have increasingly shown that they can bring about considerable advances in linguistic discourse analysis. With digital meth-ods of processing, annotating and visualizing text data, discourse linguistics can be applied to the ever-increasing volume of accessible texts and triangulated with text-statistical methods, thus ensuring both the quality criteria of the empirical research and the transparency of the results. The added value of the Research Unit is, therefore, that collaborative research together with a common digital infrastructure will develop a col-laborative methodology for the understanding of discourse history.

这个计划中的研究小组旨在通过研究自1990年以来的一系列有争议的话语来回顾和展示德语的最新历史。与历史学不同的是，“语言史作为当代史”只在个别研究中使用，例如气候保护话语、经济危机话语或胚胎干细胞研究话语。一份涵盖公共政治辩论最重要主题领域的总体报告是自1990年两个德国民族国家统一以来的理想选择。这里提议的研究组的目的是弥合这一差距。研究将在语言的现实构成力量的语言学理论的基础上进行。从这个角度来看，解释不同主题领域的各个“现实”是如何在语言上构建和实施的，可以被视为对当代历史学的宝贵贡献，特别是因为历史学的特点往往是话语遗忘：它描述了例如经济危机，而没有反思语言话语对现实的构建，这使得对这种“危机”的感知最初成为可能。这一与社会有关的研究目标只能在一个较大的合作项目和两个供资阶段实施，因为它将涵盖长达30年的大量相互关联的专题。在这一应用的准备工作中，研究小组提出了关于基本语篇语义图形的假设，这些假设可以用来将这些主题捆绑成项目主题，并通过这些主题集中各自的争议潜力。此外，在过去的几十年里，语篇语言学中展开了激烈的方法论讨论。它建立了广泛的研究领域，提供了广泛的方法，可以显著提高研究股所寻求的语言历史结果的代表性、可靠性和多样性。然而，这些方法在语料库的准备和评估方面也需要投入大量的时间和精力。特别是语料库-语言学方法将被纳入，这在过去十年中越来越多地表明，它们可以在语言语篇分析方面带来相当大的进步。通过对文本数据进行数字化处理、标注和可视化，语篇语言学可以应用于日益增长的可访问文本，并使用文本统计方法进行三角划分，从而确保了实证研究的质量标准和结果的透明度。因此，研究股的附加价值是，协作研究与共同的数字基础设施一起，将发展一种理解话语历史的协作方法。