Doctoral Dissertation Research: Doing Being Hawaiian: Identity, Ideology, and Hawaiian Language Education Programs

博士论文研究：做夏威夷人：身份、意识形态和夏威夷语言教育项目

• 批准号: 0819596
• 负责人: Kathryn Woolard
• 金额: $ 1.49万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-15 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0819596&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Doing; Being

Graduate student Alicia Snyder-Frey, under the direction of Dr. Kathryn A. Woolard, will undertake research on how efforts to revitalize the Hawaiian language have affected Native Hawaiian speech and identity. She will focus her research on the relationship between language revitalization, the pan-ethnic social category known as "Local," and the linguistic expression of Local identity through Hawaii Creole English. Hawaiian, viewed as a dying language for most of the past century, has experienced a resurgence in the past twenty years. However, it remains unclear what the consequences of Hawaiian language revitalization efforts have been for shared conceptions of what it means to be Hawaiian. The term, Local, refers to a social category that includes Native Hawaiians and those minority immigrant groups who have a long history on the islands, in contrast to the haole (Anglo-American) population, whose separation is indexed by speaking Standard English. Local and Native Hawaiian identities have long been linguistically indistinguishable, given that both are associated with Hawaii Creole English. This may be changed by the revitalization movement.The researcher will undertake twelve months of mixed methods, ethnographic field work in Oahu to assess the broader consequences of Hawaiian language revitalization. She will employ participant observation in and out of Hawaiian-language classrooms, semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, and matched guise language attitude tests. Data will be collected on the relationship between the overlapping social categories of Native and Local for participants and non-participants in the Hawaiian language programs, and on the ways in which community members link these identities to the two linguistic codes distinctive of Hawaii. Language endangerment is a worldwide problem to which the response is frequently language revitalization. This research project is significant because it will contribute significantly to scholarly understanding of both the linguistic and social consequencess of revitalization. In addition, the findings will be useful to to local community members, such as teachers and language preservationists. The research also will contribute to the education of a social scientist.

研究生 Alicia Snyder-Frey 在 Kathryn A. Woolard 博士的指导下，将研究振兴夏威夷语言的努力如何影响夏威夷原住民的言语和身份。她的研究重点是语言复兴、被称为“本地”的泛种族社会类别以及通过夏威夷克里奥尔英语表达本地身份的语言之间的关系。 夏威夷语在上个世纪的大部分时间里都被视为一种正在消亡的语言，但在过去的二十年里经历了复兴。 然而，目前尚不清楚夏威夷语言振兴努力对夏威夷语的共同概念有何影响。 “本地”一词指的是一个社会类别，包括夏威夷原住民和那些在岛上拥有悠久历史的少数民族移民群体，与豪勒（英裔美国人）人口形成鲜明对比，后者的分离是通过说标准英语来衡量的。夏威夷当地人和原住民的身份长期以来在语言上无法区分，因为两者都与夏威夷克里奥尔英语有关。这种情况可能会因复兴运动而改变。研究人员将在欧胡岛进行为期十二个月的混合方法、民族志实地工作，以评估夏威夷语言复兴的更广泛后果。她将在夏威夷语言课堂内外进行参与观察、半结构化访谈、问卷调查和匹配的伪装语言态度测试。将收集有关夏威夷语言项目的参与者和非参与者的本地和本地重叠社会类别之间关系的数据，以及社区成员将这些身份与夏威夷独特的两种语言代码联系起来的方式的数据。 语言濒危是一个世界性问题，对此的应对措施通常是语言复兴。该研究项目意义重大，因为它将极大地促进学术界对振兴的语言和社会后果的理解。此外，研究结果将对当地社区成员（例如教师和语言保护主义者）有用。该研究还将有助于社会科学家的教育。