Workshop on Sociolinguistic Archive Preparation

近50年来，社会语言学家和方言学家一直在研究发音、词汇选择和语法上的差异，这些差异与说话者的人口统计数据、态度以及他们所处的环境有关。这项工作对社会、教育、政治、技术发展和法医学具有重要意义。社会语言学家通常会制作自然语音的录音，各种转录和定量分析方言特征，加上对说话者特征和采访情况的仔细描述。这些数据对语言学家、语言相关领域的学者和开发人类语言技术的计算机科学家具有重要的潜力。尽管许多社会语言学家渴望分享他们的工作，但这种分享一直存在障碍。拟议的讲习班将讨论两个最重要的问题。首先，在美国，任何涉及人类受试者的研究都必须得到机构审查委员会（IRB）的批准。绝大多数社会语言学研究涉及极低的风险，特别是对少数群体社区来说，潜在的高社会效益，但不存在允许共享数据的共同实践机构。在所收集的人口、态度和情况信息方面也没有一套共同的做法，这使各项研究的分享和比较变得复杂。研讨会将聚集领先的社会语言学家和方言学家，以及其他具有丰富经验的实地研究人员，以制定准备机构审查和共享数据的共同做法。预期结果是IRB协议和人口统计学，态度和情景问卷的草图，每个问卷都包含一个核心集，学者应该为每个主题收集，以及一个更大的集，其相关性将取决于访谈本身。美国语言学会和语言数据联盟将在其网站上发布协议和模块，并通过其通讯和邮件列表宣布，这些通讯和邮件列表将覆盖全球8000多名学者。

For nearly five decades sociolinguists and dialectologists have studied the differences in pronunciation, word choice and grammar as correlated with the demographics and attitudes of the speakers and the situations in which they find themselves. This work has important implications for society, education, politics, technology development and forensics. Sociolinguists routinely produce recordings of natural speech, variously transcribed and quantitatively analyzed for dialect features plus careful descriptions of the speakers' characteristics and the interview situation. These data have important potential for linguists, scholars in language related fields and computer scientists developing human language technologies. Although many sociolinguists are eager to share their work, there have been impediments to such sharing. The proposed workshop will address two of the most important. First, within the United States, an Institutional Review Board (IRB) must approve any research involving human subjects. The vast majority of sociolinguistic research involves extremely low risk, and potentially high social benefit particularly for minority communities, but no common body of practice exists for permitting data to be shared. Nor is there a common body of practice with respect to the demographic, attitudinal and situational information collected, complicating sharing and comparison across studies. The workshop will gather leading sociolinguists and dialectologists, and other field researchers with extensive experience, to develop common practice in preparing for institutional review and sharing of data. Expected outcomes are a sketch of an IRB protocol and demographic, attitudinal and situational questionnaires, each containing a core set that scholars should collect for every subject as well as a larger set whose relevance will depend upon the interview itself. The Linguistic Society of America and the Linguistic Data Consortium will publish the protocol and modules on their web sites and announce them via their newsletters and mailing lists, which reach more than 8000 scholars worldwide.