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

在得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中一种被污名化的变体，即非标准音节词尾/s/，考察它在社会交往中创造意义的用途。将采取跨媒体的方法，结合各种类型的语言数据，包括口头生产，书面生产的计算机介导的通信（CMC）和感知，或语言态度。通过对50名马德里本地居民的访谈，收集了大量的口语数据，旨在发现非标准变体产生的话语语境，是否有特定的话题触发了非标准变体的使用，以及变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，通过非标准变体（g或j，例如，Ejpaña）。内容和背景中出现的非标准表示在线将被检查，以及在日期与西班牙/马德里社会的重要事件的相关性。最后，语言的态度数据完成的研究，提供了一个分析，匹配的幌子调查数据的基础上，从300多名西班牙参与者的感知非标准/s/和分配给使用它的扬声器的身份。本文提供了一个例子，如何transmedial的方法来研究和分析可以提供一个更充分的理解背后的社会意义特定的变种。它有助于分析如何非标准/s/是用来创造社会意义的马德里方言，并进一步将提出一个语音分析的非标准/s/，这还没有明确建立在以前的工作。书面CMC数据和语言态度的数据是新的贡献，非标准/s/在马德里的研究，并将提供一个更完整的图片的社会意义和身份与变量。

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.