Dissertation Research: Texas Czech: An Ethnolinguistic Study

论文研究：德克萨斯捷克语：民族语言学研究

• 批准号: 9709262
• 负责人: Jane Hill
• 金额: $ 1.02万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-15 至 1997-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9709262&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Texas; Czech; Ethnolinguistic

The purpose of this project is to conduct fieldwork on Czech language use among third, fourth, and fifth generation Texas Czechs in order to explore its significance for ethnic identity. This research will contribute to our understanding of the place of language change and language loss in the process of redefining what it means to be a Texas Czech. It aims to reassess historically motivated perceptions of Czechness among the descendants of Moravian immigrants, and provide insight into their reasoning about discontinued language transmission and shifting definitions of Czech speakers. Such ethnolinguistic study is especially timely because the current--and perhaps last- -adult generations of Texas Czech speakers experienced the most concerted attempts at purposeful public language revival, allowing the researcher to examine its impact on their self- and other-perceived identity, as well as their language skills and attitudes. In order to retrieve community members' own views, participant observation will combine discourse-centered and sociolinguistic methods, using audiotaping of naturally occurring and elicited speech, and ethnographic notes. This project will contribute a new linguistic-anthropological perspective to the study of the place of immigrant languages in American ethnic communities.

该项目的目的是在第三代、第四代和第五代得克萨斯州捷克人中进行捷克语使用的田野调查，以探索其对种族认同的意义。这项研究将有助于我们理解在重新定义德州捷克人意味着什么的过程中，语言变化和语言丢失的位置。它的目的是重新评估摩拉维亚移民后裔中出于历史动机的捷性认知，并为他们关于语言传播中断和捷克语定义变化的推理提供洞察。这样的民族语言学研究特别及时，因为现在--也可能是最后一代--说德州捷克语的成年人经历了有目的的公共语言复兴的最协调的尝试，使研究人员能够检查这对他们自我和他人感知的身份以及他们的语言技能和态度的影响。为了找回社区成员自己的观点，参与者观察将结合以话语为中心的方法和社会语言学方法，使用自然发生和诱导言语的录音和民族志笔记。这一项目将为研究移民语言在美国种族社区中的地位贡献一种新的语言学-人类学视角。