Termin:
29.11.2010
Language as a Scientific Tool
Managing Language as a Variable of Practice and Presentation in History
The conference revolves around the discussion of scientific language, understood both as a medium influencing scientific and scholarly production and as the product of the interaction between linguistics, philosophy and materiality. Furthermore, language becomes a consciously modeled tool aiming at achieving definite scientific and political goals without disregarding the need for scholarly communication between distinct communities. The analysis of processes of scientific translation - between languages, objects, disciplines or concepts - helps us to understand scholars' and scientists' use of the intersection between epistemological and performative functions of language and its modifications under different political circumstances.
Kontakt:
Mag. Caroline Hofer
Institut für Kulturwissenschaften und Theatergeschichte
Zentrum Kulturforschungen
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
Postgasse 7/IV/3, 1010 Wien
T +43 1 51581-3310
F +43 1 51581-3311