Negotiating Transdisciplinarity The Communication in Scientific Projects between Transdisciplinary Ambitions and Discipinary Demands

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Nina Janich
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2009 to 2014
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 159643314

The goal of DFG Project on communication in transdisciplinary projects is to analyze the conflict between transdisciplinary ambitions and expectations and disciplinary demands and conditions in the workflow of transdisciplinary scientific projects. Therefore, the project is investigating the following questions: 1) Which communication problems occur in transdisciplinary projects from a typological view, 2) in which state of the project and at which pace of the workflow which kind of problems occur, 3) what are the reasons for the problems, 4) which problem solving stategies the participants of the projects kinds can choose, 4) which interactive and discourse roles do participants take on when facing such problems,5) which influences take the transdiciplinary ambitions to the constitution of knowledge?

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• Participating Persons: Dr.-Ing. Matthias Englert; Professor Dr. Franz Fujara; Dr. Wolfgang Liebert; Professor Dr. Klaus Dieter Wolf