Doctoral Dissertation Research: An Ethnography of the Development of Thyboronsk

9313170 Silverstein这个项目的主要重点是：(1)记录在一个更大的语言社区内部迅速迁移过程中形成的一个小社区的社会语言概况；(2)追踪方言间和多方言的出现，这些因素包括成员对标准化媒体的获取和导向、他们在社区生活的时间和他们的年龄。在这个项目中，我们将定量的社会语言学技术应用于波动的方言现象，从而试图通过考察区域标准化的机制来解释多方言现象。我们将收集人口和其他人种学数据，目的是更全面地说明蒂博伦斯克的波动情况。这些数据将使P.I.S能够分析方言从出现到区域标准化的宏观过程的发展过程。如果这些过程得到语言学和社会学的证明，其后果是什么。该项目旨在揭示是什么因素控制和/或促进了小型移植社区当地身份的形成和持续。它还将探索开发量化技术的可能性，以评估和校准语言访谈的语音转录的有效性。

9313170 Silverstein The main foci of this project are: (1) documenting the sociolinguistic profile of a small community constituted over the course of rapid internal migration within a larger linguistic community; and (2) tracing the emergence of interdialectisms and hyperdialectisms as functions of factors such as access and orientation of members to standardizing media, how long they have lived in the community, and their age. In this project, we apply quantitative sociolinguistic techniques to fluctuating dialectological phenomena and thereby attempt to account for hyperdialectisms through examining mechanisms of regional standardization. We will gather both demographic and other ethnographic data with the aim of producing a more comprehensive account of the fluctuating condition of Thyboronsk. The data will enable the P.I.'s to analyze the development of the dialect from its emergence through the macro-level processes of its regional standardization. The ramifications if these processes are evidenced both linguistically and sociologically. The project is intended to reveal what factors control and/or contribute to the formation and sustainability of local identities of small transplanted communities. It will also explore the possibilities for developing quantitative techniques for evaluating and calibrating the validity of phonetic transcriptions of linguistic interviews.