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中一种被污名化的变体--非标准音节-Full/S/，研究它在社交活动中创造意义的作用。我们将采取跨媒体的方法，将各种类型的语言数据结合在一起，包括口头输出、计算机媒介交流(CMC)中的书面输出以及感知或语言态度。本文通过对50名马德里当地人的访谈收集了口头语料，旨在发现非标准变体产生的语篇语境，特定话题是否触发了非标准变体的使用，以及变体用法的语境是否随着社会类别的不同而变化。CMC数据补充了口头数据，通过非标准变体(g或j，例如Ejpaña)的拼写表示，深入了解Madrileños如何执行非标准/S/。将审查非标准陈述出现在网上的内容和背景，以及与西班牙/马德里尔诺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多名西班牙语参与者的匹配伪装调查数据，分析了对非标准/S/的认知以及使用它的说话者的身份认同。本文提供了一个例子，说明跨语言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。分析了马德里方言中非标准/S/是如何被用来创造社会意义的，并对前人工作中没有明确确立的非标准/S/进行了语音分析。书面的CMC数据和语言态度数据是对马德里非标准/S/的研究的新贡献，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.