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

这是意大利北部城镇贝加莫的一项人种学和语言学研究，研究说话者如何通过使用当地、地区和国家语言来展示和改变他们的不同身份，以及他们如何评估和回应其他人的类似活动。这个项目将集中在几个明显的意识形态过程并在不同类型的语言选择中发挥作用的地点。它将考察关于语言和社会差异的机构、国家和流行话语之间的联系，以及更多微观层面的互动，如日常对话，以及说话者的语码转换和语域选择模式(例如，在标准语言和当地语言之间)。为了收集数据来分析贝加莫语中使用的语言变体(当地的‘方言’，地区的‘朗巴多’，国家的‘标准’)，并揭示这些如何系统地与不同的语境特定的语域和特定话题的体裁相关联，本研究将结合参与者观察，社交网络分析，开放式访谈，以及对各种背景下的言语活动进行录音、转录和分析。本项目将有助于理解贝加莫的说话者如何将语言作为一种资源来制定、评论和构建他们的社会文化景观。更广泛地说，它将有助于不断增长的关于语言意识形态的文献，以及对语言使用的意识形态层面的理解。它还将提供关于语码转换的复杂社会语言学过程的新见解，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相衔接。

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.