Collaborative Research: Language Change, Dialect Awareness, and Place Identity in Pittsburgh

合作研究：匹兹堡的语言变化、方言意识和地方认同

• 批准号: 0417684
• 负责人: Scott Kiesling
• 金额: $ 6.94万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0417684&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Language; Change; Dialect

With National Science Foundation support, Professors Barbara Johnstone of Carnegie Mellon University and Scott F. Kiesling of the University of Pittsburgh will study the dialect of western Pennsylvania and the roles it plays in local life. The region is differentiated from some other dialect areas in its close association of regional identity with what is locally known as "Pittsburghese," features of which appear frequently in vernacular dictionaries and on postcards and t-shirts. The Pittsburgh Speech and Society Project (PSSP) seeks to understand the relationship between local identity and the path of change in the dialect by exploring the social conditions under which dialect awareness arises and spreads, and the linguistic consequences of that awareness. It is hypothesized that dialect features that Pittsburghers identify with being a "true" Pittsburgher will pattern differently from those that Pittsburghers do not use to symbolize local identity. NSF-funding will be used for the third in a series of sociolinguistic/ethnographic neighborhood studies documenting local speech, dialect awareness, and place identity in three contrasting Pittsburgh-area neighborhoods, and for a community-of-practice study involving intensive participant observation, recording, and playback and perception procedures. As the first large-scale study of urban speech in the trans-Appalachiannortheast to focus on pronunciation as well as words and structures, thisproject will make an important contribution to the study of regional andsocial variation in American speech. The primary theoretical outcome of theproject will be a deeper understanding of the processes by which awarenessof regional and social dialects arises and spreads, and of the roles of suchawareness in language change. Because language is so important toPittsburgh's local identity, local archivists, scholars, designers, andothers have been recruited in the attempt to legitimize local speech as arecognized aspect of local heritage and local cultural distinctiveness. Thiswork includes the archiving of interview data for historic preservation andscholarship, workshops and lectures for community organizations, the designand publication of a website for the general public, and consultation witheducators and media outlets.

在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，卡内基梅隆大学的芭芭拉·约翰斯通教授和斯科特·F.匹兹堡大学的Kiesling将研究宾夕法尼亚州西部的方言及其在当地生活中所扮演的角色。该地区与其他一些方言地区的区别在于其与当地称为“布尔加斯”的地区身份的密切联系，其特征经常出现在方言词典、明信片和T恤上。匹兹堡言语与社会项目（PSSP）旨在通过探索方言意识产生和传播的社会条件以及这种意识的语言后果来了解当地身份与方言变化路径之间的关系。据推测，市民认同的方言特征是一个“真正的”市民将模式不同于那些市民不使用象征当地身份。NSF的资金将用于一系列社会语言学/民族志邻里研究的第三个，记录当地语言，方言意识和地方身份在三个对比鲜明的爱丁堡地区的社区，并为社区的实践研究，涉及密集的参与者观察，记录，回放和感知程序。 作为第一个大规模的研究城市语音在跨阿巴拉契亚东北部集中在发音以及单词和结构，该项目将作出重要贡献的研究，在美国的地区和社会的变化讲话。该项目的主要理论成果将是对区域和社会方言意识产生和传播的过程以及这种意识在语言变化中的作用的更深入的理解。由于语言对匹兹堡的地方身份如此重要，当地的档案管理员、学者、设计师和其他人都被招募进来，试图使当地的语言合法化，成为当地遗产和当地文化特色的一个公认方面。这项工作包括为历史保护和奖学金、为社区组织举办讲习班和讲座、为公众设计和发布网站以及与教育工作者和媒体机构进行协商等方面的访谈数据存档。