'Knowledge telling‘ in ecological fiction for children - an interdisciplinarily informed model for linguistic analysis

该项目是DFG项目“儿童在文本类型和媒体格式中的知识和科学交流的语言策略”的延续。在前一个项目中，对非虚构类文本，即非虚构类书籍/杂志、电视知识杂志和儿童大学讲座等主要解释性类文本的知识传授战略进行了分析，但现在的重点是虚构类，因此主要是叙事儿童文学。以环境、自然和气候保护的生态主题为例，问题是知识是如何在这些故事中“讲述”的，如果有必要的话，还会解释。调查对象是2019-2022年出版的20个具有事实(与生态相关)内容的虚构故事，面向6-12岁的儿童。该项目最初的假设是，在儿童生态小说中，叙事(以故事形式提供的内容)和解释(对生态知识的解释)之间存在着特殊的紧张关系。然而，这不是一分为二的，而是两极的，它允许两种类型的文本模式的整合，以及嵌入更多的模式(例如描述、说明、论证)。基于前一个项目的结果，并超越这些结果，该项目的目标是开发一个关于完全不同的体裁组的综合语言分析模型。以前的项目侧重于基于媒体比较的广泛分析，而拟议的项目致力于深入的文本分析：重点放在尚未或几乎没有使用的方法方法上，这些方法将与先前项目中已经证明的普及研究和媒体语言学类别有系统地联系起来。这些新颖的方法包括--对于文本模式，--解释野心的分析，根据出现的技术术语和相关框架的解释深度进行审查。对于文本模式--叙事，分析的重点是身份空间的提供和身份导航导致的人物发展。此外，语用和文本文体方法将使形式和内容美学的文本评估成为可能。通过对当前五本可比主题的儿童非虚构类图书的抽查进行最终验证，将确保新分析模式的可转移性和可持续性。总而言之，拟议的项目追求两个目标，即为传播知识的儿童媒体的语言分析制定跨学科的方法标准，以及将儿童小说作为语言普及和知识转化研究的研究对象。本文以当前的生态话题为例，重点探讨了知识传授与知识解释之间的紧张关系。

The project is a continuation of the DFG project "Linguistic Strategies of Knowledge and Science Communication in Text Types and Media Formats for Children". While in the former project non-fiction texts, i.e. primarily explicative texts such as non-fiction books/magazines, TV knowledge magazines and children's university lectures, were analysed for their knowledge transfer strategies, the focus is now on fiction and thus primarily narrative children's literature. Using the example of ecological topics of environmental, nature and climate protection, the question is how knowledge is 'told' and, if necessary, explained in these stories. The object of investigation are 20 fictional stories with factual (ecology-related) content, published 2019-2022 for children aged 6-12. The initial hypothesis of the project is that in ecological fiction for children there is a particular tension between narration (content offered as a story) and explication (explanation of ecological knowledge). However, this is not dichotomous but polar and allows the integration of both types of text patterns as well as the embedding of further patterns (e.g. description, instruction, argumentation). Based on the results of the previous project and going beyond them, the aim of the project is to develop an integrative linguistic analysis model on a categorically different genre group. Whereas the previous project focused on a broad analysis based on media comparisons, the proposed project is dedicated to an in-depth text analysis: the focus is on methodological approaches that have not yet or hardly been used, which are to be systematically related to the already proven categories of popularisation research and media linguistics from the previous project. These novel approaches include - for the text pattern ‚explaining‘ - the analysis of explanatory ambition, examined on the basis of the explanatory depth of occurring technical terms and associated frames. For the text pattern ‚narrative‘, the analyses focus on the offer of identity spaces and the development of figures resulting from identity navigation. In addition, a pragma- and text stylistic approach will enable a form- and content-aesthetic text evaluation. A final validation through the selective examination of five current children's non-fiction books on comparable topics will ensure the transferability and sustainability of the new analysis model. In summary, the proposed project thus pursues two goals, namely the interdisciplinarily informed development of methodological standards for the linguistic analysis of knowledge-transmitting children's media and the long overdue inclusion of children's fiction as a research object of linguistic popularisation and knowledge transformation research. The central focus is on the tense relationship between knowledge telling and knowledge explaining, using the example of current ecological topics.