Dissertation Research: Language and Identity in a Ukrainian Border Community

这个奖颁给密歇根大学，支持一位乌克兰人类学研究生的论文研究。该学生将在罗马尼亚附近的边境地区学习国家和地方政治认同的产生。使用民族志和言语分析的方法，并关注当地语言的使用，学生将检验民族认同的形成受到与附近不同当地语言方言社区的对比互动中形成的地方认同的阻碍这一假设。方法包括民族志观察和正式语言分析，记录在正式访谈和日常对话中的传记和话题对话。这项研究很重要，因为它将促进我们对本地化身份如何与作为语言标准化基础的民族统一意识形态不相容的理解。在这个“民族政治”日益增加的时代，以及在多民族国家中地方政治分裂的趋势下，理解地方认同与国家认同的对比是至关重要的。此外，该项目还将提高中国在世界这一重要地区的科学研究能力。

This award to the University of Michigan supports the dissertation research of an anthropology graduate student in the Ukraine. The student will study the production of national and local political identities in a border region near Romania. Using methods of ethnography and of speech analysis and focusing on local language use, the student will test the hypothesis that national identity formation is impeded by local identities formed in contrastive interaction with nearby different local speech-dialect communities. Methods include ethnographic observation and formal linguistic analysis of biographic and topical conversations recorded in formal interviews and everyday conversations. This research is important because it will advance our understanding of how localized identities are incompatible with the ideology of national unity that underlies language standardization. Understanding how local identities contrast with national identities is of primary importance in this era of increasing `ethnic politics` and tendencies for local political fragmentation in multi-ethnic nation states. In addition the project will add to the nation's capacity for scientific research in this important region of the world.