DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Language Ideologies, Youth Culture and Socialization in a Central Alaskan Yup'ik Eskimo Village

博士论文研究：阿拉斯加中部尤皮克爱斯基摩村的语言意识形态、青年文化和社会化

• 批准号: 0001914
• 负责人: Shirley Heath
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-07-01 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0001914&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DOCTORAL; DISSERTATION; RESEARCH; Language; Ideologies

Indigenous languages now disappear at an increasing rate. Activists and educators in a Yup'ik Eskimo village in southwestern Alaska motivate language revitalization efforts by emphasizing the importance of preserving Central Alaskan Yup'ik as part of a rich cultural heritage. Yet resulting ideological notions of linguistic purism stigmatize current youth language practices, creating linguistic insecurity in speakers crucial to the language's future. This dissertation focuses on effects of this contradiction by identifying how youth perceive, enact and/or reconfigure language ideologies in daily language practices, and how they influence younger children's language use through socialization networks. Ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods will 1) examine assumptions about bilingualism and language revitalization underlying educational and legal policies; 2) demonstrate how these policies constrain definitions of language ability and learn-ability locally and 3) document linguistic practices of 12 bilingual youth (ages 7-20) from four nuclear families as they interact in family and peer clusters over a year. Findings contribute to language ideology research by describing in detail how youth culture affects linguistic norms and ideology's enactment in bilingual communities. Language planners will find useful this case study of how language ideologies are interpreted and deployed by the young people on whom language revitalization efforts depend.

土著语言正在以越来越快的速度消失。阿拉斯加西南部的一个爱斯基摩人村庄的活动家和教育工作者强调保护阿拉斯加中部的Yup'ik作为丰富文化遗产的一部分的重要性，以此来激励语言振兴工作。然而，由此产生的语言纯粹主义的意识形态概念污名化目前的青年语言的做法，创造语言的不安全感的发言者至关重要的语言的未来。本文的重点是通过确定青年如何感知，制定和/或重新配置语言意识形态在日常语言实践中，以及他们如何影响幼儿的语言使用，通过社会化网络的这种矛盾的影响。民族志和社会语言学的方法将1）检查假设双语和语言振兴的基础教育和法律的政策; 2）证明这些政策如何限制语言能力和学习能力的定义在当地和3）文件的语言实践的12个双语青年（7-20岁）从四个核心家庭，因为他们在家庭和同龄人集群互动超过一年。研究结果有助于语言意识形态的研究，详细描述了青年文化如何影响语言规范和意识形态的制定在双语社区。语言规划者会发现这个案例研究对语言复兴工作所依赖的年轻人如何解释和部署语言意识形态很有用。