'I Was Surprised to See You in a Chinese School': Researching Multilingually Opportunities and Challenges in Community-Based Research
'I Was Surprised to See You in a Chinese School': Researching Multilingually Opportunities and Challenges in Community-Based Research
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“我很惊讶在中国学校见到你”：研究社区研究中的多语言机遇和挑战
DOI：
10.1093/applin/amz043
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Ganassin S
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作者：
Ganassin S
在多语言环境中工作的研究人员必须利用自己的语言资源时，概念化，规划，进行和报告他们的研究，无论是论文或出版物，或在传播给其他利益相关者。然而，这些多语言的过程在以前的研究中很少受到关注。本文以萨拉·甘纳森（Sara Ganassin）在中国社区语言教育中进行的民族志研究为基础，探讨了“多语言研究”的视角为研究者提供了什么样的机遇和挑战。我们分析了叙事数据和民族志观察，以说明研究者如何利用她的多语言资源与她的研究背景的语言空间，她的多语言立场的反射方面，以及她所面临的道德选择。从这些见解，我们提出了一个理论和方法的情况下，嵌入研究多语言的研究方法，认识到研究者的语言资源。这项研究具有多语言研究背景下的研究能力建设的影响，并强调多语言研究过程，提高理解，报告和代表不同的语言和文化视野的人。
Researchers working in multilingual contexts must draw on their own linguistic resources when conceptualizing, planning, conducting, and reporting their studies, whether for theses or publications, or in dissemination to other stakeholders. However, these multilingual processes have received little attention in previous research. Drawing on an ethnographic study undertaken by Sara Ganassin in Chinese community language education, we investigate what opportunities and challenges a ‘researching multilingually’ perspective offers the researcher. We analyse narrative data and ethnographic observations to illustrate how the researcher drew on her multilingual resources vis-a-vis the linguistic spaces of her research context, the reflexive aspects of her multilingual positionality, and the ethical choices faced by her. From these insights, we make a theoretical and methodological case for embedding a researching multilingually approach in research that recognizes the linguistic resources of the researcher. The study has implications for building researcher capacity in multilingual research contexts, and for highlighting multilingual researcher processes that improve understanding, reporting, and representation of people from diverse linguistic and cultural horizons.