Doctoral Dissertation Research: Listen So You Can Live Life the Way it's Supposed to be Lived: Paradoxes of Secrecy, Dictionary and Text at a New Mexico Pueblo

博士论文研究：聆听，以便你可以按照应有的方式生活：新墨西哥州普韦布洛的秘密、词典和文本的悖论

• 批准号: 0641604
• 负责人: Michael Silverstein
• 金额: $ 1.16万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2008-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0641604&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Listen; So

The research supported by this Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant examines dictionary creation and emergent literacy in a New Mexico Pueblo community, and how local ideologies privileging secrecy are reconfigured during the process of creating a dictionary, the first text produced as part of the community's language revitalization program. The decision to create written materials in this historically oral language is seemingly at odds with the linguistically and culturally conservative reputation many tribes in the US Southwest share and the local importance placed on controlling both intra- and intercommunity circulation of cultural knowledge. Example sentences constructed for each entry diverge from the Western tradition in lexicography which conceptualizes such sentences as tools useful for disambiguating lexical items, and instead center on imparting necessary cultural information, imploring readers to "Listen so you can live life the way it's supposed to be lived," as one such sentence explicitly instructs. Thus, the dictionary emerges as a paradoxical object: seen as a tool necessary for preserving the ancestral language, but potentially at odds with locally-held beliefs regarding secrecy; at once a neutral reference work and a potential place for creatively including salient cultural information. The two research questions at the center of this project are situated against this instance of textual production. The first area of inquiry examines the nature of dictionaries as texts. If texts articulate the social conditions of their production and projected futures, what kinds of understandings about how texts work apply to dictionaries? The second aim of the proposed study concerns how example sentences are functioning within this document, and how language ideologies privileging secrecy are being re-imagined during the creation of example sentences. Employing ethnographic fieldwork, comparative lexicography, and linguistic analysis, this dissertation informs conceptions of secrecy and emergent literacy, studies of the grammar of Kiowa-Tanoan languages, and examinations of prevalent discourses involving language revitalization. This award is co-funded by the Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology Programs in the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.

这项由博士论文改进基金支持的研究考察了新墨西哥普韦布洛社区的词典创作和新兴读写能力，以及在创建词典的过程中，当地的意识形态是如何重新配置的，这是作为社区语言复兴计划一部分的第一部文本。用这种历史上的口头语言创作书面材料的决定，似乎与美国西南部许多部落在语言和文化上的保守名声不一致，也与当地对控制社区内和社区间文化知识流通的重视不一致。为每个条目构建的例句与西方词典编纂的传统不同，西方词典编纂将这些句子概念化为消除词汇歧义的有用工具，而不是以传授必要的文化信息为中心，恳求读者“倾听，这样你就能以应有的方式生活”，正如其中一个句子明确指示的那样。因此，词典成为一个矛盾的对象：被视为保存祖先语言的必要工具，但潜在地与当地关于保密的信仰不一致；这既是一个中立的参考作品，也是一个创造性地包含突出文化信息的潜在场所。这个项目中心的两个研究问题是针对文本生产的实例。第一个探究领域考察字典作为文本的性质。如果文本阐明了其产生的社会条件和预测的未来，那么关于文本如何工作的理解适用于词典吗？本研究的第二个目的是关注例句如何在该文档中发挥作用，以及在例句的创建过程中，特权于保密的语言意识形态是如何被重新想象的。本论文采用民族志田野调查、比较词典编纂和语言学分析，介绍了保密和新兴读写能力的概念、Kiowa-Tanoan语言语法的研究，以及对涉及语言复兴的流行话语的研究。该奖项由行为与认知科学系的语言学和文化人类学项目共同资助。