Terminological Innovations in International Relations: Emergence and Diffusion

国际关系术语创新：出现与扩散

• 批准号: 504959934
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Marcus Müller
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Politikwissenschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/504959934?language=en
• 关键词: Terminological; Innovations; International; Relations; Emergence

The purpose of this interdisciplinary project is an analysis of terminological change in discourses on international relations. Moreover, the project aims to explore the diffusion of terminological innovations from the academic language of International Relations (IR), a sub-discipline of political science, into discourses of political practitioners. Accordingly, the key research questions are as follows: How do terminological innovations emerge within the academic IR discourse? How do such innovations diffuse in Germany from the academic into the political discourse? What schools of IR are particularly successful in this regard? To answer these questions we will create a tripartite corpus, consisting of a) academic publications on the subject matter of international relations (this corpus is internally divided into an international, English-language section and German language publications on international relations); b) policy papers issued by think tanks and the scientific service of the German Bundestag; c) verbatim records of the Bundestag on issues of international relations and documents of the German foreign office. With the help of that tripartite corpus we are planning to analyze how, and in what timeframe, terminological innovations diffuse from the academic discourse into political advisory documents and political discourses proper. The falsifiable starting hypothesis is that terminological innovations should originate from academic discourse and diffuse into political advisory and parliamentary debate from there. However, our research design is able to document the reverse path as well, in case that terminological innovations originate from policy papers or political discourses. In any event, our project will go beyond mere description and strive to identify, by way of comparison, possible patterns and causal pathways in the career of terminological innovations. The goal is to spot the conditions under which terminological innovations are particularly successful.

这个跨学科项目的目的是分析国际关系话语中的术语变化。此外，该项目的目的是探讨从国际关系（IR），政治学的一个分支学科的学术语言的术语创新，到政治从业者的话语扩散。因此，关键的研究问题如下：术语创新如何出现在学术IR话语？这些创新是如何在德国从学术界传播到政治话语中的？在这方面，哪些国际关系学院特别成功？为了回答这些问题，我们将创建一个三方语料库，包括：a）关于国际关系主题的学术出版物（该资料库内部分为国际、英文部分和关于国际关系的德文出版物）; B）德国联邦议院智囊团和科学部门发表的政策文件;（c）联邦议院关于国际关系问题的逐字记录和德国外交部的文件。借助三方语料库，我们计划分析术语创新如何以及在什么时间内从学术话语扩散到政治咨询文件和政治话语本身。可证伪的起始假设是，术语创新应该起源于学术话语，并从那里扩散到政治咨询和议会辩论。然而，我们的研究设计也能够记录相反的路径，如果术语创新源于政策文件或政治话语。在任何情况下，我们的项目将超越单纯的描述，并努力确定，通过比较，在职业生涯中的术语创新的可能模式和因果关系的途径。目的是找出术语创新特别成功的条件。