Dissertation Research: Identity and Language in a Catalan Pediatric Unit

0092576 Goodwin/ClementThis project involves the dissertation research of a cultural anthropology student from the University of加州洛杉矶. 该项目调查了在多元文化环境（巴塞罗那，加泰罗尼亚，西班牙）中成长的儿童如何使用沟通作为一种方式来创造，抵制或竞争新的身份和社会角色。 采用微观民族志的方法，对20名儿童进行定性的横断面研究，并对4名儿童进行纵向研究，学生将研究儿童在三种话语实践中使用语言和非语言交际，戏弄，开玩笑和隐瞒。该项目将研究儿童如何谈判和转换他们的加泰罗尼亚和西班牙的身份和社会角色强加的父母和照顾者在他们的生活背景下，在医院的癌症病房。该项目将促进我们对双语的理解，以及在这种机构环境中的情感交流，将通过检查情感，特别是疼痛，不仅作为一种主观现象/体验，而且作为互动中出现的主体间体验，来弥合语言学和医学方法。 最后，该项目有助于对儿童进行民族志研究，因为儿童相对来说没有得到研究，增进了我们对世界这一地区的了解，并有助于培养一名年轻的社会科学家。

0092576Goodwin / ClementeThis project involves the dissertation research of a cultural anthropology student from the University of California Los Angeles. The project investigates how children growing up in a multicultural setting (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) use communication as a way to create, resist or contest new identities and social roles as cancer patients. Using methods of micro-ethnography, qualitative cross-sectional study of 20 children and longitudinal study of four children, the student will study the children's use of both verbal and non-verbal communication in three discursive practices, teasing, joking and concealing. The project will examine how children negotiate and transform their Catalan and Spanish identities and social roles imposed by parents and caregivers in the context of their life-in the cancer ward of a hospital. The project will advance our understanding of bilingualism as well as communication of emotion in this institutional setting, will bridge linguistic and medical methodologies by examining emotion, in particular pain not only as a subjective phenomenon/experience but also as an intersubjective experience emerging in interaction. Finally, the project contributes to the ethnography of children, who are relatively unstudied, advances our knowledge of this region of the world, and contributes to the training of a young social scientist.