Dialect Loss and Innovation: Documentaries and Outreach Program

北卡罗来纳州立大学计划制作两部关于美国东南部语言多样性的一小时纪录片，一部关于北卡罗来纳州外滩上正在消退的传统英语品种的纪录片，暂名为外滩的消失之声，另一部关于西班牙语和西班牙裔英语在大西洋中部南部出现的纪录片，暂定为新美国南部的西班牙之声。该项目与美国国家科学基金会研究基金BCS-0542139《美国南部的新旧民族方言结构》有关，但它也与国际语言协会正在进行的与语言多样性有关的广泛的公共推广活动联系在一起。该项目有助于公众了解美国社会的语言多样性以及语言在社区生活中的社会作用。

North Carolina State University proposes to produce two one-hour documentaries on language diversity in the southeastern United States, one on a receding traditional variety of English on the Outer Banks of North Carolina tentatively titled Vanishing Voices of the Outer Banks, and one on the emergence of Spanish and Hispanic English in the Mid-Atlantic South tentatively titled The Spanish Voice in the New American South. The project is related to NSF research grant BCS-0542139, Old and New Ethnic Dialect Configuration in the American South," but it also connects with the PI's extensive, ongoing public outreach activities related to linguistic diversity. The project contributes to the public understanding of language diversity in American society and the social role of language in community life.