Doctoral Dissertation Research: A transmedial third wave sociolinguistic approach to examining the social meaning of nonstandard /s/ in Madrid

在德克萨斯大学阿尔梅达·杰奎琳·托里比奥博士的指导下，罗宾·赖特将研究马德里西班牙语的一种变体，即非标准音节韵母/s/，研究它在社交互动中创造意义的作用。将采取跨媒介方法，纳入各种类型的语言数据，包括口头生产、计算机媒介传播（CMC）的书面生产和感知，或语言态度。通过对50名马德里本地居民的访谈收集口头数据，旨在发现非标准变异体产生的话语语境，某些话题是否触发其使用，最后变异体使用的语境是否根据社会类别而变化。CMC数据补充了口头数据，提供了关于Madrileños如何通过非标准变体（g或j，例如Ejpaña）的正字法表示执行非标准/s/的见解。将检查在线出现的非标准表示的内容和背景，以及与西班牙/Madrileño社会重要事件的日期相关性。最后，语言态度数据完成了这项研究，基于300多名西班牙参与者的匹配伪装调查数据，提供了对非标准/s/的感知和使用它的人的身份的分析。本文提供了一个例子，说明跨媒介的研究和分析方法如何能够更全面地理解特定变体背后的社会意义。它有助于分析在马德里方言中如何使用非标准/s/来创造社会意义，并进一步提出非标准/s/的语音分析，这在之前的工作中尚未明确建立。书面CMC数据和语言态度数据是对马德里非标准/s/研究的新贡献，将提供与变量相关的社会意义和身份的更完整的图景。

Under the direction of Dr. Almeida Jacqueline Toribio at the University of Texas, Robyn Wright will study a stigmatized variant in Madrid Spanish, nonstandard syllable-final /s/, examining its use in social interaction in the creation of meaning. A transmedial approach will be taken, incorporating various types of language data, including oral production, written production in computer-mediated communication (CMC) and perception, or language attitudes. The oral data is gathered through interviews with 50 native Madrid residents, aiming to discover the discourse contexts in which the nonstandard variant arises, whether certain topics trigger its use, and finally whether the contexts of variant use change according to social categories. The CMC data complements the oral data, providing insight into how Madrileños perform nonstandard /s/ through orthographic representations of the nonstandard variant (g or j, e.g., Ejpaña). The content and context in which nonstandard representations appear online will be examined, as well as the correlations in date with important events in Spanish/Madrileño society. Finally, the language attitudes data complete the study, providing an analysis, based on matched-guise survey data from over 300 Spanish participants, of the perception of nonstandard /s/ and the identities assigned to speakers that use it.This dissertation provides an example of how a transmedial approach to research and analysis can provide a fuller understanding of the social significance behind particular variants. It contributes an analysis of how nonstandard /s/ is used to create social meaning in the Madrid dialect and furthermore will present a phonetic analysis of nonstandard /s/, which has not been clearly established in antecedent work. The written CMC data and language attitudes data are new contributions to the study of nonstandard /s/ in Madrid and will provide a more complete picture of the social meaning and identities associated with the variable.