Doctoral Dissertation Research: Reported Speech and Discursive Authority among the Nantis of the Peruvian Amazon

博士论文研究：秘鲁亚马逊南蒂斯人的言论和话语权威

• 批准号: 0318039
• 负责人: Joel Sherzer
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 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: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2004-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0318039&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Reported; Speech

Under the direction of Dr. Joel Sherzer, Mr. Lev Michael will conduct fieldwork for his doctoral dissertation. His linguistic and ethnographic research among the Nantis, an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon, will focus on how individuals create personal authority in conversation and how these uses of language relate to the recent emergence of community leaders in newly-formed Nanti settlements. Mr. Michael will examine how Nantis quote each other and how the circulation and reproduction of certain peoples' utterances leads to the greater influence of these individuals. He will also compare language use, and quotation in particular, in the more traditional single-family settlements and in the new settlements. This research will include recordings of live interactions between Nanti individuals in diverse social settings, which Mr. Michael will transcribe and analyze. He will also track how speech from important social events is repeated and spreads through the community by supplying Nanti individuals with [individual portable recording units that will enable them conduct their daily business. This last doesn't make sense to me. Weren't they able to conduct their daily business long before you arrived with recorders?]This project will have several impacts. First, its examination of the relationship between social organization and language use will provide a testing ground for theoretical frameworks bridging linguistics and anthropology. Second, it will provide information on how utterances circulate within a community of speakers, an area of interest to linguists and anthropologists. Third, this project will contribute to the documentation of this undescribed language. This documentation will directly benefit the Nanti people by generating materials for bilingual education in their communities. Finally, this research will [contribute to improving communication between Nantis and others by clarifying the central role of quotation in Nanti communication, which is a source of frequent miscommunication between Nantis and the representatives of the industrialized world with which they now must contend. This seems somewhat grand. What specific aspect of your research will have this impact?]

在Joel Sherzer博士的指导下，Lev Michael先生将为他的博士论文进行实地考察。他的语言和民族志研究的Nantis，秘鲁亚马逊的土著人民，将集中在个人如何在谈话中创造个人权威，以及如何使用这些语言与社区领导人在新成立的Nanti定居点最近出现。迈克尔先生将研究南提斯如何相互引用，以及某些人的言论的传播和复制如何导致这些人的影响力更大。他还将比较语言的使用，特别是报价，在更传统的单户定居点和新的定居点。这项研究将包括南蒂人在不同社会环境中的现场互动记录，迈克尔先生将转录和分析。他还将跟踪重要社会事件的演讲是如何通过向南蒂人提供个人便携式录音设备来重复和传播的，这将使他们能够进行日常业务。这最后一点对我来说没有意义。在你带着录音机来之前很久，他们不是已经能够进行日常业务了吗？该项目将产生若干影响。首先，它对社会组织和语言使用之间关系的考察将为连接语言学和人类学的理论框架提供一个试验场。第二，它将提供关于话语如何在一个讲者社区内传播的信息，这是语言学家和人类学家感兴趣的一个领域。第三，这个项目将有助于这种未描述的语言的文档。这些文件将直接使南提人受益，为他们的社区提供双语教育材料。最后，这项研究将有助于改善南蒂人和其他人之间的沟通，通过澄清报价在南蒂人沟通中的核心作用，这是南蒂人和他们现在必须与之抗衡的工业化世界的代表之间频繁误解的根源。这似乎有点大。你的研究的哪个具体方面会产生这种影响？