Ethnicity, social practice and phonetic variation in a Sheffield secondary school
Ethnicity, social practice and phonetic variation in a Sheffield secondary school
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谢菲尔德中学的种族、社会实践和语音变异
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2013
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S. Kirkham
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S. Kirkham
本论文是对英国谢菲尔德一所多民族中学的语音变异和社会实践进行的民族志研究。我分析了这所学校青少年对语音变异的使用，目的是推动最近围绕索引性、社会意义以及语言和种族的争论（Silverstein 2003；Eckert 2008a,b；Campbell-Kibler 2011b）。我报告了两个语音变量的定量和交互分析：词尾 /i/，它既有区域注册变体和超本地声音变化变体，以及词首 /t/，它在谢菲尔德内没有已知的社会关联或相关性。这使我能够研究语言特征的注册程度如何影响它如何用于产生民族志特定的社会意义。定量声学语音分析表明，学校女性实践社区之间存在许多差异，表明这些变量标志着身份差异。在统计分析中，男性实践社区彼此之间没有显着差异，但男性族群之间存在一些差异。我根据青少年同龄群体社会组织中的性别差异来解释这些差异。为了揭示这种变化的更多本地社会意义，我还研究了如何在话语中使用每个变量的声学极端标记以及其他交互资源，以达到身份构建的目的（Podesva 2011a）。结果表明，注册的特征可能具有明确但有限的社会意义（Kiesling 2009），而没有建立社会关联的特征在社会意义方面表现出广泛的灵活性。该分析还表明，社会意义有时是共构的，即意义取决于交互资源的特定星座，而语音变化在这一事业中发挥着复杂的作用（Eckert 2012）。这对将特定语音实现直接解释为索引预先确定的社会意义提出了问题。总之，本论文（i）为越来越多关于种族、社会实践和语音变异之间关系的文献做出了贡献； (ii) 研究谢菲尔德境内登记的、超本地的和高度不确定的语音变化的本地含义； (iii) 提出对社会语言学变异的解释，这种变异对社会语言学意义的共同构成、多层次和意识形态性质敏感。
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of phonetic variation and social practice in a multiethnic secondary school in Sheffield, UK. I analyse the use of phonetic variation by adolescents in this school with the aim of advancing recent debates surrounding indexicality, social meaning, and language and ethnicity (Silverstein 2003; Eckert 2008a,b; Campbell-Kibler 2011b). I report quantitative and interactional analyses of two phonetic variables: word-final /i/, which has both a regionally enregistered variant and a supralocal sound change variant, and word-initial /t/, which has no known social associations or correlations within Sheffield. This allows me to examine how the degree of enregisterment attributed to a linguistic feature affects how it can be used for making ethnographically-specific social meanings. The quantitative acoustic phonetic analysis demonstrates a number of differences between female communities of practice in the school, suggesting that these variables mark identity distinctions. The male communities of practice are not significantly different from each other in the statistical analysis, but there are some differences between clusters of male ethnic groups. I explain these differences with reference to gender differences in the social organisation of adolescent peer groups. In order to uncover the more local social meanings of this variation, I also examine how acoustically extreme tokens of each variable are used in discourse, alongside other interactional resources, for the purposes of identity construction (Podesva 2011a). The results suggest that enregistered features may have well-defined but limited social meanings (Kiesling 2009), whereas features without established social associations show extensive flexibility with respect to social meaning. This analysis also suggests that social meaning is sometimes co-constitutive, in the sense that meaning depends upon specific constellations of interactional resources, with phonetic variation playing a complex role in this enterprise (Eckert 2012). This problematises a straightforward interpretation of particular phonetic realisations as indexing pre-determined social meanings. In summary, this dissertation (i) contributes to the growing literature on the relationship between ethnicity, social practice and phonetic variation; (ii) examines the local meanings of enregistered, supralocal and highly indeterminate phonetic variation within Sheffield; and (iii) advances an account of sociolinguistic variation that is sensitive to the co-constitutive, multi-layered and ideological nature of sociolinguistic meaning.
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