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What role does language play in the sciences, humanities and arts? What is it used for? When does it challenge us to think or rethink about conventions?

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Language plays a key role in everyday scientific and artistic life. It is employed for writing essays and books, giving lectures and discussing with colleagues. For artists, talking about their works is part of professional communication. Researchers and artists reflect on their use of language when they try to convey scientific facts or the aesthetic experience of works of art to other people.

2025

On the occasion of the 2025 Bundestag elections, members of Die Junge Akademie's Research Group "Language" are organising with the "AG Sprache in der Politik" an interdisciplinary conference in Berlin on 10 and 11 February 2025, which will focus on language and rhetoric, but also provide a social, political and media context for the topic.

The event will be held in German.

2024

Workshop „Einfach schwierig?“ ('Simply difficult? Complexity and simplicity in scientific language')

The Die Junge Akademie's Research Group "Language" will meet on 9 October 2024 in Munich for the workshop "Simply difficult?" to reflect on complexity and simplicity in scientific language use. In addition to short member presentations and discussions, there will be an evening lecture by linguist Dr Franziska Wallner (University of Leipzig).

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Activities

    • Conference „Sprache und Rhetorik des Bundestagswahlkampfes 2025“

      With a view to the Bundestag elections, the interdisciplinary conference is dedicated to linguistic topics in the research of campaign language and at the same time takes into account the social, political and media context.

      Topics:

      Starts on
      10.02.25
      Ends on
      11.02.25

      Event access: Public

      Museum für Kommunikation Berlin
      Leipziger Str. 16
      10117 Berlin

      illuminated Bundestag dome at night

    • Workshop „Einfach schwierig?“ ('Simply difficult? Complexity and simplicity in scientific language')

      The aim of the interdisciplinary workshop of the Research Group "Language" is to shed light on the possibilities of complex and simple communication in science.

      Topics:

      Starts on
      09.10.24
      Ends on
      09.10.24

      Event access: Internal

      Munich

    • Workshop „Künstler*innen über Kunst“ ('artists on art')

      Talking about art: For some artists, the linguistic construction of an artistic programme or an artistic position is an inherent part of their work. Others see it as a challenging communicative task to speak and write about their own art in professional contexts or in front of a critical audience. In addition to individual differences, there are also differences specific to art forms and media.

      The aim of this interdisciplinary workshop organised by the Working Group Language is to shed light on the broad field of artistic communication.

      Topics:

      Starts on
      26.03.24
      Ends on
      27.03.24

      Event access: Internal

      Leipzig

    • Interdisciplinary workshop "language use in science and humanities"

      In this workshop we want to try a little experiment “on our own” and compare scientific texts from different subjects to see how they use language to present scientific results. We are not concerned with an exact linguistic description of individual phenomena, but rather with our spontaneous impressions: How do texts from other disciplines affect us, which stylistic features surprise or irritate us, what seems familiar to us? What linguistic means do the articles use to present their problem/question? What is considered as 'fact' in each case? How is the argumentation made?

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      Starts on
      28.02.24

      Event access: Internal

      Mannheim

      14:00