Doctoral Dissertation Research: Ideologies of Ethnic Stylization: Asian/Pacific American Linguistic Practices and Mainstream Participation at a Central Texas High School

在多民族背景下，青年人不断协商使用各种民族语言风格。 通常，他们从事语言风格化的做法（库普兰2001年），或突出的语言风格的表现，偏离了无标记的风格的发言者或上下文。例如，一个萨摩亚裔美国人通常会说一种主流的美式英语，他可能会模仿中国口音。在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，基思沃尔特斯博士和伊莱恩·春女士将研究语言风格的使用，作为在德克萨斯州一所公立高中构建亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民美国青年身份的一种手段，这些群体构成了一个种族多元化的学生群体中相当大的少数群体。特别感兴趣的是如何亚洲/太平洋裔美国人将程式化的做法，以各种形式参与主流活动以外的课堂环境。在这项研究中的青少年，其中许多人来自多种族和移民家庭，特别是处于有利地位，从事创造性的风格化的做法，从学校和校外的语言资源。在承认研究中各个亚太裔美国人群体内部和之间的差异的同时，研究人员还关注这些群体的成员如何在美国背景下被构建和构建为少数民族。通过民族志的方法收集数据，包括三个学期的全职，每天参与观察，实地考察，访谈，录音和录像，本研究将阐明微观层面的语言实践与学生的身份和他们的地方意识形态语言，社会身份，学校参与的方式。以语篇为中心的分析记录和转录的数据将梳理出与学生的象征性实践有关的种族，民族，国家，性别，性别和阶级等复杂的意识形态。它有助于语言学家理解个体说话者如何以及为什么在各种风格之间移动，有时象征性地跨越种族界限，以及青少年如何学习将特定风格与特定类型的人联系起来的语言意识形态。亚太裔美国人很少成为语言学研究的焦点。这个研究项目将引起人们对德克萨斯州一个军事城镇中一个被边缘化且特别复杂的亚太裔美国人社区的关注。该项目更广泛的社会影响来自于它对美国流行话语的挑战，这些话语使亚洲人和太平洋岛民的刻板形象永久化。此外，在主流学校活动的背景下对学生的语言实践和信仰进行深入调查，将有助于政策制定者和教育工作者了解移民社区学生接受、谈判和受益于这些活动的各种方式。

In multiethnic contexts, youths constantly negotiate the use of various ethnolinguistic styles. Often, they engage in language stylization practices (Coupland 2001), or the highlighted performance of a linguistic style that diverges from the unmarked style of the speaker or context. For example, a Samoan-American who typically speaks a mainstream variety of American English might employ a mock Chinese accent. With support from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Keith Walters and Ms. Elaine Chun will examine the use of language styles as a means of constructing specifically Asian-American and Pacific Islander American youth identities at a public high school in Texas where these groups make up a sizeable minority of an ethnically diverse student body. Of particular interest is how Asian/Pacific Americans incorporate stylization practices into their varied forms of participation in mainstream activities outside the classroom context. The youths in this study, many of whom come from multiracial and immigrant families, are particularly well-positioned to engage in creative stylization practices by drawing from both in-school and out-of-school linguistic resources. While acknowledging the variability within and across the study's various Asian/Pacific American groups, the investigators are also concerned with how members of these groups come to be constructed and construct themselves as an ethnic minority in the U.S. context. Through ethnographic methods of data collection, including three semesters of full-time, daily participant observation, fieldnotes, interviews, and audio- and video-recordings, this study will illuminate the ways in which micro-level language practices relate to students' identities and their local ideologies about language, social identity, and school participation. A discourse-centered analysis of the recorded and transcribed data will tease apart the complex ideologies of race, ethnicity, nation, gender, sexuality, and class that are linked to students' symbolic practices.This dissertation project will be significant for research in sociolinguistics and Asian/Pacific American studies. It contributes to linguists' understanding of how and why individual speakers move between various styles, and sometimes symbolically across ethnic boundaries, as well as how adolescents learn language ideologies that link particular styles with particular kinds of people. Asian/Pacific Americans have rarely been the focus of linguistics research. This research project will bring attention to a marginalized and particularly complex Asian/Pacific American community in a Texas military town. The project's broader social impact derives from its challenge to popular discourses in the U.S. that perpetuate stereotypical images of Asians and Pacific Islanders. In addition, the in-depth investigation of students' language practices and beliefs in the context of mainstream school activities will benefit policymakers and educators who seek to understand the various ways in which students in immigrant communities accept, negotiate, and benefit from these activities.