Doctoral Dissertation Research: Geographies of language: Identity and indexicality in post-Katrina New Orleans English

博士论文研究：语言地理：卡特里娜飓风后新奥尔良英语中的同一性和索引性

• 批准号: 1124206
• 负责人: Scott Kiesling
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1124206&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Geographies; language

In 2005 the geographies of New Orleans -- linguistic, social, and physical -- were devastated by flooding following the failure of the levees after Hurricane Katrina. The disaster exacerbated what was already a dearth of research that has resulted in a lack of public knowledge of the speech of one of America's linguistically richest cities. New Orleans possesses numerous speech varieties, each linked historically to particular neighborhoods and sociocultural groups, but these varieties, along with the city's neighborhoods and population, have been profoundly disturbed post-Katrina. This dissertation focuses on two locally salient cultural categories, Creole and Yat, in order to explore the intersection of language, place, and identity, and also uses these speakers' experiences to consider how the flooding and population diaspora after Katrina continues to change local perception and construal of linguistic and other cultural affiliations. The historical processes that gave rise to Creole and Yat as cultural categories, current commercial and other discourses about them, and speaker and media use of local linguistic features are examined. Interviews, ethnography, discourse analysis, and participant observation are used to trace how self-identified members of these groups as well as public discourses use language to construct, reflect, and manipulate local cultural identities. The intellectual and academic merits of this study are twofold. First, it begins to redress the deficit of scholarly attention to New Orleans speech. Second, it furthers the study of the intersection of language, place and the performance of identity within the context of cultural appropriation endemic in global commerce generally, and post-disaster diasporic communities specifically. In contribution to the community of study, curriculum modules which link study of New Orleans English with critical language awareness skills will be created for use in middle and high schools, as well as a public, interactive, web-based archival resource for New Orleans speech and culture.

2005年，新奥尔良的地理-语言，社会和物理-被卡特里娜飓风后的堤坝崩溃后的洪水摧毁。这场灾难加剧了本已缺乏的研究，导致公众对美国语言最丰富的城市之一的语言缺乏了解。新奥尔良拥有众多的语言变体，每一种都与特定的社区和社会文化群体有着历史上的联系，但这些变体，沿着城市的社区和人口，在卡特里娜飓风后受到了深刻的干扰。本论文的重点是两个当地突出的文化类别，克里奥尔语和Yat，以探讨语言，地点和身份的交叉点，并使用这些扬声器的经验，考虑如何洪水和人口散居卡特里娜飓风后继续改变当地的认知和语言和其他文化联系的conciliation。的历史进程，产生了克里奥尔语和雅特作为文化类别，目前的商业和其他话语，他们和扬声器和媒体使用当地的语言特征进行检查。访谈，民族志，话语分析和参与观察被用来追踪这些群体的自我认同的成员以及公共话语如何使用语言来构建，反映和操纵当地的文化身份。这项研究的知识和学术价值是双重的。首先，它开始纠正学术界对新奥尔良演讲的关注不足。其次，它进一步研究了语言，地点和身份的表现在全球商业普遍流行的文化挪用的背景下，特别是灾后散居社区的交叉点。在研究社区的贡献，课程模块，新奥尔良英语的学习与关键的语言意识技能将被创建用于初中和高中，以及一个公共的，互动的，基于网络的档案资源新奥尔良的演讲和文化。