Coordination Funds

计划中的研究小组旨在通过研究1990年以来广泛的有争议的话语来回顾和呈现德语的最新历史。与史学相比，“作为当代史的语言史”只在个别研究中实践，例如气候保护话语、经济危机话语或胚胎干细胞研究话语。自1990年两个德意志民族国家统一以来，一份涵盖公共政治辩论中最重要主题领域的全面报告是一个理想。这里提议设立的研究股的目的就是要缩小这一差距。研究将在语言的现实建构力的语言学理论的基础上进行。从这个角度来看，对不同主题领域中各自的“现实”如何在语言上被建构和执行的解释，可以被视为对当代史学的宝贵贡献，特别是在史学经常被话语遗忘的情况下：例如，它在描述经济危机时，没有反思现实的语言话语结构，而现实的语言话语结构首先使对这种“危机”的感知成为可能。这个与社会相关的研究目标只能在一个更大的合作项目和两个资助阶段中实施，因为它将涵盖大量相互关联的主题，为期30年。在此应用程序的准备工作中，研究小组提出了关于基本话语语义图形的假设，这些假设可用于将这些主题捆绑到项目组合中，并通过它们各自的争议潜力可以集中。此外，在过去的几十年里，一场激烈的话语语言学方法论讨论已经发展起来。它建立了一个广泛的研究领域，提供各种各样的方法，可以大大提高研究股所寻求的语文历史结果的代表性、可靠性和灵活性。然而，这些方法也需要在语料库的准备和评估方面投入大量的时间和精力。特别是语料库-语言学方法，在过去的十年中，语料库-语言学方法越来越多地表明，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处理、注释和可视化的数字化方法，话语语言学可以应用于不断增加的可访问文本量，并与文本统计方法进行三角测量，从而确保实证研究的质量标准和结果的透明度。因此，研究单位的附加价值在于，协作研究与共同的数字基础设施将为理解话语历史开发一种协作方法。

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.