Doctoral Dissertation Research: Jicarilla Apache Language Socialization and Revitalization

博士生Mariann Skahan(新墨西哥大学)将在Les field博士的指导下，研究Jicarilla阿帕奇语言意识形态对当前振兴Jicarilla语言的努力的影响。这项研究将考察过去和现在的交际能力实践和观念如何塑造语言使用。本研究侧重于吉卡里拉·阿帕奇语言倡导者的语言传记，辅之以通过结构化和半结构化访谈、参与者观察、互动的社会语言学分析和档案研究获得的信息。研究人员的目标是记录一种美国土著语言的社会和文化变迁，这种语言已经从日常语言变成了一种经历了显著语言转变的语言。这一方法和理论框架将为回答以下问题提供背景：1)吉卡里拉·阿帕奇男女的语言社会化经历与他们对语言振兴的态度之间的关系；2)早期吉卡里拉·阿帕奇振兴计划对现已成年的前语言学生的影响；以及3)不同的吉卡里拉阿帕奇教派如何定义语言能力和熟练程度？该项目将帮助社会科学家通过研究部落社区成员个人历史中的语言变化，对社会框架对语言振兴计划的影响进行理论分析。这项研究还将对少数族裔语言社区成员的话语表现、代理和作者的形式提出意见，否则很难识别这些特征。这项研究为社会科学家的教育提供了支持。

Doctoral student Mariann Skahan (University of New Mexico), under the supervision of Dr. Les Field, will undertake research on the bearing of Jicarilla Apache language ideologies on current efforts to revitalize the Jicarilla language. The study will examine how past and present practices and notions of communicative competence have shaped language use.This research focuses on language biographies of Jicarilla Apache language advocates, supplemented by information obtained in structured and semi-structured interviews, participant observation, sociolinguistic analysis of interactions, and archival research. The researcher's goal is to produce an account of the social and cultural vicissitudes of a Native American language that has gone from being a language in daily basis to one experiencing marked linguistic shift. This methodological and theoretical framework will provide the context to answer questions related to: 1) What is the relationship between language socialization experiences of Jicarilla Apache men and women and their attitude towards language revitalization; 2) What is the impact of the earlier Jicarilla Apache revitalization programs on former language students who are now adults; and 3) How do differing sects of Jicarilla Apache men and women define language competency and proficiency?This project will help social scientists to theorize the effects of social framing on language revitalization programs by examining language shift in the personal histories of tribal community members. This research also will give voice to qualities of discursive performance and forms of agency and authorship by members of minority speech communities that are otherwise difficult to recognize. This research supports the education of a social scientist.