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Prof. Dr. Oliver Bott is a Professor for Experimental Pragmatics at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies. He leads the Experimental Pragmatics Research Group and holds multiple institutional roles including membership on the Faculty Conference, the Habilitation Committee, and the Board of the Linguistics Department. As Principal Investigator, he directs projects B01 and Ö of the Collaborative Research Center 1646 "Linguistic Creativity in Communication".
Dr. Bott obtained his Habilitation in General Linguistics and German Linguistics in Summer 2017, followed by his appointment as Professor for Experimental Pragmatics at Bielefeld University in Winter Semester 2019/20. His academic journey began with a Master of Arts in German Linguistics from the University of Tübingen in 2000, and he later earned a Psychology Diploma from the same institution in 2004. His doctoral work in General Linguistics was completed in 2011.
Dr. Bott's research focuses on the experimental investigation of linguistic meaning processing. His current work explores linguistic creativity in communication, citizen science approaches in psycholinguistics, and the resolution of compositional conflicts in coercion. He investigates how semantic and pragmatic expectations operate in discourse, particularly regarding implicit causality, and examines the interpretation of quantifying expressions and event interpretation in language. His methodology emphasizes psycholinguistic approaches to understand the cognitive mechanisms underlying language comprehension.
His recent publications reveal a consistent focus on experimental approaches to semantic and pragmatic phenomena, with particular attention to implicit causality, coercion mechanisms, quantifier interpretation, and discourse processing. These works demonstrate his commitment to bridging theoretical linguistics with empirical cognitive science methods.
Among his notable scientific contributions are his work on cataphoric resolution of projective content with occasion verbs, abductive inferences in causal discourse, and the processing of non-culminating accomplishments across languages. His research on neglect-zero effects in quantifier interpretation has also made significant contributions to our understanding of semantic processing.
Dr. Bott actively supervises research projects and doctoral students through his role as Chairman of the Doctoral Committee. He has secured significant funding through the German Research Foundation for his work on coercion as a creative mechanism in compositional interpretation (SFB 1646, Subproject B01) and for public relations initiatives related to linguistic creativity.
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