Fiktion „gemeinsame Sprache“? Interdisziplinäre Aushandlungsprozesse auf der Inhalts-, der Verfahrens- und der Beziehungsebene

Nina Janich; Ekaterina Zakharova

doi:10.1515/zfal-2014-0014

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Fiktion „gemeinsame Sprache“? Interdisziplinäre Aushandlungsprozesse auf der Inhalts-, der Verfahrens- und der Beziehungsebene

Nina Janich and Ekaterina Zakharova

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From the journal Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik Volume 2014 Issue 61

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The following article presents results from the DFG Project “The Discursive Negotiation of Transdisciplinarity: Inter-project communication within the field of transdisciplinary requirements and a disciplinary context”. This DFG project accompanied and linguistically observed the interaction between the fields of physics and political science within a interdisciplinary research project over the course of three years. The issue discussed in the following article is whether or not – and how – a “common language” is negotiated in such a project and what exactly this “common language” consists of.

The results of the analysis of the proposal, accompanying e-mails and subsequent reflective interviews show that a “common language” consists of much more than merely exchanging clarifications of terminology from each discipline. In fact, results confirm previous sociological research which shows that an interdisciplinary “common language” at the very least comprises a content layer (i.e. confirmation of relevant concepts and goals), a process layer (i.e. formulation of writing and agreement processes, and resolving time management issues), and finally a relationship layer (i.e. the consequences of hierarchies). The components of membership in and identity as a discipline, including their respective content layers, nevertheless remain dominant.

The article closes with a reflection of the relevance of linguistically observation for interdisciplinary projects in general.

Keywords: Interdisziplinarität; Wissenschaftssprache; Projektkommunikation; linguistische Begleitforschung

Published Online: 2014-10-02

Published in Print: 2014-10-01

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Interdisziplinarität; Wissenschaftssprache; Projektkommunikation; linguistische Begleitforschung