A2
Interpretability in Context
The work of project A2 in the third phase will inform research on speech acts. It will bring to light under-investigated speech acts occurring in non-assertive linguistic situations. In addition to an interpretive analysis of these speech acts, it will contribute to our understanding of the semantics/pragmatics interface in general. The fictional nature of the texts we are investigating is contrasted with non-fictional utterance types and highlights the component parts that go into mapping a semantic to a pragmatic meaning. Various aspects of this mapping such as presuppositions, reference, speech acts, etc. are investigated. The notion of context is examined from the perspective of fictional and iterated contexts.
Principal Investigators
Prof. Dr. Sigrid Beck
+49 7071 29-78461
sekretariat-beck @nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
English Department
Wilhelmstraße 50, room 463
D-72074 Tübingen
Research Staff
Julia Braun, M.A.
+49 7071 29-77434
julia.braun @uni-tuebingen.de
SFB 833
Nauklerstraße 35, room 105
D-72074 Tübingen
Susanne Riecker, M.A.
+49 7071 29-77434
susanne.riecker @uni-tuebingen.de
SFB 833
Nauklerstraße 35, room 105
D-72074 Tübingen
Associated Members
Dr. Nadine Bade
+33 1 44 32 26 79
nadine.bade @ens.fr
École Normale Supérieure
Department of Cognitive Studies
29 rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris
Dr. Carmen Dörge
+49 7071 29-77154
carmen.doerge@uni-tuebingen.de
SFB 833
University of Tübingen
Nauklerstraße 35, room 2.09
72074 Tübingen
Germany
Prof. Dr. Angelika Zirker
+49 7071 29-73260
angelika.zirker @uni-tuebingen.de
English Department
Wilhelmstraße 50, room 368
D-72074 Tübingen
Assistants
Alla Kutkina
Fanni Weber