Ethnolinguistic repertoire: Shifting the analytic focus in language and ethnicity
Ethnolinguistic repertoire: Shifting the analytic focus in language and ethnicity
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民族语言学库：将分析焦点转移到语言和种族上
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2010
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S. Benor
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S. Benor
本文讨论了语言和种族研究中的一个矛盾：我们如何才能讨论独特的民族说话方式，并仍然解释其特征的变化和流动性？本文介绍的理论结构使研究人员能够避免这种矛盾。“民族语言库”被定义为一个民族群体的成员在表达其民族身份时可能使用的一套流动的语言资源。这一结构将分析重点从民族“语言变体”转移到个人、民族群体及其独特的语言特征。它解决了群体间、说话者间和说话者内部的差异问题，以及关于谁应该被认为是方言说话者的争论。这种方法，这也可以适用于超越种族的社会群体，讨论与其他方法，并支持在美国的非裔美国人，拉丁美洲人和犹太社区的语言使用的数据。
This paper addresses a contradiction in research on language and ethnicity: how can we discuss distinctively ethnic ways of speaking and still account for the variation and fluidity that characterize them? The theoretical construct introduced in this paper enables researchers to avoid this contradiction. ‘Ethnolinguistic repertoire’ is defined as a fluid set of linguistic resources that members of an ethnic group may use variably as they index their ethnic identities. This construct shifts the analytic focus from ethnic ‘language varieties’ to individuals, ethnic groups, and their distinctive linguistic features. It addresses problems of inter-group, inter-speaker, and intra-speaker variation, as well as debates about who should be considered a speaker of a dialect. This approach, which can also be applied to social groupings beyond ethnicity, is discussed in relation to other approaches and is supported with data on language use in African American, Latino, and Jewish communities in the United States.