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
07071 29-78461
sekretariat-beck @nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
Englisches Seminar
Wilhelmstraße 50, Raum 463
72074 Tübingen
Research Staff
Saskia Brockmann, M.A.
07071 29-77434
saskia.brockmann @uni-tuebingen.de
SFB 833
Nauklerstraße 35, Raum 105
72074 Tübingen
Susanne Riecker, M.A.
07071 29-77434
susanne.riecker @uni-tuebingen.de
SFB 833
Nauklerstraße 35, Raum 105
72074 Tübingen
Associated
Dr. Nadine Bade
07071 29-77434
nadine.bade @uni-tuebingen.de
SFB 833
Nauklerstraße 35, Raum 105
72074 Tübingen
PD Dr. Angelika Zirker
07071 29-73260
angelika.zirker @uni-tuebingen.de
Englisches Seminar
Wilhelmstraße 50, Raum 368
72074 Tübingen
Assistants
Julia Braun (jul.braun) @student.uni-tuebingen.de
Nina Fritz (nina.fritz) @student.uni-tuebingen.de
Fanni Weber (fanni.weber) @student.uni-tuebingen.de