Comparing Meaning in Context (A04)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2009 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 75650358

Project A4 investigates the nature and interaction of context and sentential meaning in an authentic language-based task: teacher assessment of answers to reading comprehension questions. The pro-ject i) extends the meaning comparison underlying the content assessment by integrating the breadth of characteristics of the task context, ii) advances the content assessment in that it supports feed-back for the real-life educational application developed in the transfer project T1, and iii) generalizes the information structural analysis successfully developed for explicit question-answer contexts to be applicable in a broader range of contexts.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 833: Emergence of Meaning: The Dynamics and Adaptivity of Linguistic Structures
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Detmar Meurers