Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language

美国手语的社会语言变异

• 批准号: 9310116
• 负责人: Ceil Lucas
• 金额: $ 12.49万
• 依托单位: Gallaudet University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-06-01 至 1997-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9310116&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sociolinguistic; Variation; American; Sign; Language

9310116 LUCAS ABSTRACT Based on a large videotaped corpus representative of the American Deaf community, this study of sociolinguistic variation in American Sign Language (ASL) will investigate two theoretical questions: 1) Can the internal linguistic restraints on variation such as those identified and described in spoken language studies be identified and described for variation in ASL; 2) Similarly, can external social constraints be identified and described and what kind of model best accounts for the external constraints? Specifically, is a traditional stratification model most appropriate or can a social network analysis be used to account for individual variability, and are there factors relevant to the determination of the network score that may be unique to the American Deaf community? Videotaped data will be collected in eight representative geographical regions, in group sessions and in individual interviews. Informants will include White and African_American native or near-native user of ASL in three age groups controlled for socioeconomic status. The data will be examined for phonological, lexical, and morphosyntactic variables, and the internal and external constraints on these variables will be described, using the Varbrul program. Social network scores will be calculated for selected informants and correlated for their linguistic behavior. The study has both theoretical and practical importance: it will contribute to our understanding of ASL as a human language at a time when the instruction of ASL is rapidly expanding both for hearing adults and children and for deaf children. ***

9310116 Lucas摘要基于美国聋人群体的大型录像带语料库，本研究将探讨两个理论问题：1)美国手语变异的内部语言约束能否被识别和描述为美国手语的变异；2)外部社会制约能否被识别和描述？具体地说，是传统的分层模型最合适，还是社会网络分析可以用来解释个体的变异性，以及是否存在与确定网络得分相关的因素，这可能是美国聋人社区独有的？录像带数据将在八个有代表性的地理区域以小组会议和个别访谈的形式收集。举报人将包括白人和非裔美国人原住民或近原住民的ASL用户，在社会经济地位控制的三个年龄组。这些数据将检查语音、词汇和形态合成变量，并将使用Varbrul程序描述这些变量的内部和外部约束。将为选定的告密者计算社交网络分数，并将其与他们的语言行为相关联。这项研究具有重要的理论和实践意义：它将有助于我们理解ASL作为一种人类语言，目前ASL的教学正在迅速扩大，无论是听力正常的成人还是儿童，还是聋儿。***