Terminological Innovations in International Relations: Emergence and Diffusion

国际关系术语创新：出现与扩散

• 批准号: 504959934
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Marcus Müller
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Politikwissenschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/504959934?language=en
• 关键词: Terminological; Innovations; International; Relations; Emergence

The purpose of this interdisciplinary project is an analysis of terminological change in discourses on international relations. Moreover, the project aims to explore the diffusion of terminological innovations from the academic language of International Relations (IR), a sub-discipline of political science, into discourses of political practitioners. Accordingly, the key research questions are as follows: How do terminological innovations emerge within the academic IR discourse? How do such innovations diffuse in Germany from the academic into the political discourse? What schools of IR are particularly successful in this regard? To answer these questions we will create a tripartite corpus, consisting of a) academic publications on the subject matter of international relations (this corpus is internally divided into an international, English-language section and German language publications on international relations); b) policy papers issued by think tanks and the scientific service of the German Bundestag; c) verbatim records of the Bundestag on issues of international relations and documents of the German foreign office. With the help of that tripartite corpus we are planning to analyze how, and in what timeframe, terminological innovations diffuse from the academic discourse into political advisory documents and political discourses proper. The falsifiable starting hypothesis is that terminological innovations should originate from academic discourse and diffuse into political advisory and parliamentary debate from there. However, our research design is able to document the reverse path as well, in case that terminological innovations originate from policy papers or political discourses. In any event, our project will go beyond mere description and strive to identify, by way of comparison, possible patterns and causal pathways in the career of terminological innovations. The goal is to spot the conditions under which terminological innovations are particularly successful.

这个跨学科项目的目的是对国际关系话语中术语变化的分析。此外，该项目旨在探索术语创新的传播，从国际关系的学术语言（IR）（政治科学的一个子学科）到政治实践者的话语。因此，关键的研究问题如下：术语创新如何在学术界中出现？这种创新如何从学术到政治话语中扩散？在这方面，哪些IR学校特别成功？为了回答这些问题，我们将创建一个三方语料库，包括a）关于国际关系主题的学术出版物（该语料库内部分为国际，英语语言部分和关于国际关系的德语出版物）； b）由智囊团发行的政策文件和德国联邦政府的科学服务； c）逐字记录联邦政府关于德国外交部的国际关系和文件问题的记录。在该三方语料库的帮助下，我们计划分析如何以及在什么时间范围内，术语创新从学术话语扩散到政治咨询文件和政治话语中。可伪造的起始假设是，术语创新应源自学术话语，并从那里扩散到政治咨询和议会辩论中。但是，如果术语创新源于政策论文或政治话语，我们的研究设计也能够记录反向路径。无论如何，我们的项目将超越仅仅描述，并努力通过比较来识别术语创新职业的可能模式和因果途径。目的是发现术语创新特别成功的条件。