SFB 1646: Linguistic Creativity in Communication

在一个不断变化的世界里，语言作为我们交流的主要工具，必须能够有效地表达新的思想和经验。这就需要语言创造力，也就是说，创造新的语言单位，在交流中使用它们就像语言惯例一样成功。在过去的50年里，语言学在理解语言符号的规定化系统背后的规律和惯例、它们潜在的认知过程以及如何建模方面取得了重大进展。到目前为止，在日常会话中频繁出现的语言创造力还没有得到应有的系统处理。CRC1646将对语言创造力作为说话者语言能力的一个重要特征进行系统的研究。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。个别项目将阐明语言创造力的属性，限制，好处以及这些不同方面的相互作用，包括理论，心理语言学和计算模型。在此基础上，CRC将对这一现象及其机制和过程进行详细描述，并发展出一套关于交际、个人和语言使用者集体中的语言创造的综合理论。我们的研究工作以分析框架和一套中心研究目标和假设为指导。在第一个资助阶段，CRC将主要侧重于建立语言创造力现象的核心属性，集中于绘制语言创造力现象的广度，开发语言创造力经验测量的差异化清单，概述所涉及的语言原则和机制，并孤立认知和社会因素。我们将在第二阶段强化我们的初始假设，我们的目标是准确地确定哪些原则和机制在哪些类型的创造性使用中起作用，以及它们如何相互作用。基于这一新的、完善的视角，我们将加深对对话中的创造性单位及其在语言社区中的传播的理解。在第三个资助阶段，我们将把我们的发现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，并根据所考虑的广度对理论方面进行微调。中心的跨学科研究议程将在第三阶段得到加强，将我们的研究成果贡献给邻近的学科。

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.