SFB 1646: Linguistic Creativity in Communication

在一个不断变化的世界中，语言作为我们主要的交流工具，必须允许有效地表达新的思想和经验。这需要语言的创造性，即创造新的语言单位，这些单位在交流中的使用与语言惯例一样成功。在过去的50年里，语言学在理解常规语言符号系统背后的规则和惯例、其潜在的认知过程以及如何对其进行建模方面取得了重大进展。到目前为止，经常出现在日常对话中的语言创造力并没有得到应有的系统性处理。CRC1646将对作为演讲者语言能力重要特征的语言创造力进行系统的调查。我们的出发点是日常交流中的创造性语言活动，由此产生的产品，以及它们如何传播到更大的社区。这些单独的项目将阐明语言创造力的特性、限制、好处以及这些不同方面的相互作用，包括其理论、心理语言学和计算模型。在此基础上，儿童权利委员会将对这一现象、其机制和过程进行详细描述，并制定一套关于语言在交际中、在个人中和在语言使用者集体中的创造性的综合理论。我们的研究工作是在一个分析框架和一套中心研究目标和假设的指导下进行的。在第一个供资阶段，儿童权利委员会将主要侧重于确定语言创造力现象的核心性质，集中绘制这一现象的广度图，制定一份关于语言创造力的经验衡量标准的不同清单，概述所涉及的语言原则和机制，并隔离认知和社会因素。我们将强化我们对第二阶段的初始假设，我们的目标是确切地确定哪些原则和机制在哪些类型的创造性应用中发挥作用，以及它们如何相互作用。基于这个新的、精致的视角，我们将加深我们对对话中的创造性单位以及它们在语言社区中的传播的理解。在第三个资助阶段，我们将把我们的研究结果纳入一个更大的语言创造力理论，该理论将理论、经验、计算和心理语言学的观点以及相关的一般认知方面联系在一起，根据考虑的广度对理论方面进行微调。在第三阶段，通过将我们的研究成果贡献给邻近的学科，将加强儿童权利中心的跨学科研究议程。

In a constantly changing world, language as our primary tool of communication must allow for the effective expression of novel thoughts and experiences. This requires linguistic creativity, i.e., the creation of novel linguistic units that are used in communication just as successfully as linguistic routines. Linguistics has made significant progress in the last 50 years in understanding the regularities and routines behind conventionalised systems of linguistic signs, their underlying cognitive processes and how to model them. Thus far, the linguistic creativity that frequently occurs in everyday conversation has not been addressed with the systematicity that it deserves. CRC1646 will undertake such a systematic investigation of linguistic creativity as a vital feature of speakers' linguistic competence. Our starting point is creative linguistic activity in everyday communication, the resulting products, and how they can spread into a larger community. The individual projects will shed light on the properties, limits, benefits of linguistic creativity and the interplay of these different aspects including its theoretical, psycholinguistic and computational modelling. Based on this, the CRC will provide a detailed description of the phenomenon, its mechanisms and processes and develop a comprehensive theory of linguistic creativity in communication, in individuals and among the collective of language users. Our research endeavour is guided by an analytical framework and a set of central research goals and hypotheses. In the first funding phase, the CRC will mainly focus on establishing the core properties of the phenomenon of linguistic creativity, concentrating on mapping the breadth of the phenomenon, developing a differentiated inventory of empirical measures of linguistic creativity, outlining the linguistic principles and mechanisms involved and isolating cognitive and social factors. We will sharpen our initial hypotheses for the second phase, where we aim to establish exactly which principles and mechanisms are at work in which types of creative uses and how they interact. Based on this new, refined perspective, we will deepen our understanding of creative units in conversation as well as their spread in a linguistic community. In the third funding phase, we will incorporate our findings into a larger theory of linguistic creativity that ties together the theoretical, empirical, computational and psycholinguistic perspectives, as well as the relevant general cognitive aspects, fine-tuning the theoretical aspects in light of the breadth considered. The CRC's interdisciplinary research agenda will be strengthened in the third phase by contributing our research results to neighbouring disciplines.