DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Language Ideology, Linguistic Variation, and Social Identity in a Northern Italian Town

9904041Schieffelin & Cavanaugh 摘要这是一项在意大利北部小镇贝加莫进行的人种学和语言学研究，研究说话者如何通过使用当地、区域和民族语言来展示和转变他们的不同身份，以及他们如何评估和回应他人的类似活动。该项目将重点关注意识形态过程明显并在不同类型的语言选择中发挥作用的几个地点。它将研究机构、国家和流行话语之间关于语言和社会差异的联系，以及更微观层面的互动，例如日常对话，以及说话者的语码转换和语域选择模式（例如，标准语言和当地语言之间）。为了收集数据来分析贝加莫使用的语言变体（当地“方言”、“隆巴多语”等区域变体、国家“标准”），并揭示这些语言变体如何与不同的特定语境和特定主题流派系统地相关联，本研究将整合参与者观察、社交网络分析、开放式访谈、录音、转录和对各种环境下的言语活动的分析。该项目将了解贝加莫的说话者如何使用语言作为制定、评论和构建其社会文化景观的资源。更广泛地说，它将有助于增加关于语言意识形态的文献，并有助于理解语言使用的意识形态维度。它还将为复杂的语码转换社会语言过程以及这些微观层面的互动如何与宏观层面的社会政治话语衔接提供新的见解。

9904041Schieffelin & CavanaughAbstractThis is an ethnographic and linguistic study in the northern Italian town of Bergamo of how speakers display and shift their different identities through their use of local, regional, and national languages, and how they evaluate and respond to similar activities in others. This project will focus on several sites where ideological processes are evident and play a role in different types of language choice. It will examine connections between institutional, state, and popular discourses about language and social difference and more micro-level interactions such as everyday conversation, and patterns of speakers' code-switching and register choices (e.g., between the standard and the local language). In order to collect data to analyze language varieties used in Bergamo (local 'dialects', regional varieties such as 'Lombardo', national 'standards') and to reveal how these are systematically associated with different context-specific registers and topic-specific genres, this study will integrate participant-observation, social network analysis, open-ended interviews, and tape-recording, transcription, and analysis of speech activities across a range of settings.This project will yield understandings of how speakers in Bergamo use language as a resource with which to enact, comment upon, and construct their sociocultural landscape. More broadly, it will contribute to the growing literature on language ideology, and to understandings of the ideological dimensions of language use. It will also offer new insights on the complex sociolinguistic processes of code switching, as well as into how these microlevel interactions articulate with macrolevel sociopolitical discourses.