Dissertation Research: Language, Orthography and Culture in Turkey and Azerbaijan

论文研究：土耳其和阿塞拜疆的语言、正字法和文化

• 批准号: 9904388
• 负责人: Joel Sherzer
• 金额: $ 0.59万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2001-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9904388&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Language; Orthography; Culture

9904388Sherzer / Grocer This project supports the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Texas, studying the role of language attitudes and orthographic practices in the creation, negotiation and maintenance of socio-cultural and geopolitical relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan, a Turkish speaking republic on Central Asia. The student will show how ethnic, religious, linguistic historic, cultural, religious, and scholarly affiliations are expressed and negotiated in debates over language and communication. In particular the project will study the arguments over the establishment of a common Turkish language and alphabet, two supranational projects designed by Turkish scholars to unite the Turkish peoples under a common rubric of linguistic identity. Combining theories and methods from discourse analysis of language and culture, the student will analyze tapes of conferences on establishing a pan-Turkish language, will interview scholars, politicians, business persons, as well as private citizens in Turkey and Azerbaijan. In addition to analyzing recordings and conducting formal interviews, the student will use a matched-guise method, where tape recordings of bilingual speakers reading the same text in two languages will be used to elicit unconscious attitudes towards languages and peoples who speak them. This project will provide important new knowledge about the attitudes of Turkish speaking Muslims on an issue of national relevance, that will be useful to scholars of comparable situations in Central Asia as well as other parts of the world. In addition the project supports the training of a young social scientist, and advances our knowledge of this important area of the world.

9904388 Sherzer/Grocer这个项目支持德克萨斯大学人类学专业的一名学生的论文研究，研究语言态度和正字法实践在土耳其和中亚讲土耳其语的阿塞拜疆之间建立、谈判和维持社会文化和地缘政治关系中的作用。学生将展示种族、宗教、语言、历史、文化、宗教和学术联系是如何在关于语言和交流的辩论中表达和谈判的。特别是，该项目将研究关于建立共同的土耳其语和字母表的争论，这是土耳其学者设计的两个超国家项目，旨在将土耳其人民团结在一个共同的语言认同标准下。结合语言和文化话语分析的理论和方法，学生将分析关于建立泛土耳其语的会议录像带，将采访土耳其和阿塞拜疆的学者、政治家、商界人士以及普通公民。除了分析录音和进行正式面试外，学生还将使用一种匹配伪装的方法，即用两种语言阅读同一篇文章的双语使用者的磁带录音将被用来引发对语言和说语言的人的无意识态度。该项目将提供有关讲土耳其语的穆斯林在一个与国家相关的问题上的态度的重要新知识，这将对研究中亚和世界其他地区类似情况的学者有用。此外，该项目还支持培训一名年轻的社会科学家，并促进我们对世界这一重要领域的了解。