Doctoral Dissertation Research: Language and Identity among Ethnic Minorities

博士论文研究：少数民族的语言与身份

• 批准号: 1349147
• 负责人: Gregory Guy
• 金额: $ 1.29万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-04-15 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1349147&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Language; Identity

How do linguistic variables gain social meaning in everyday interaction? What role does language play in creating identity? Is there a way of speaking that uniquely identifies a group, and if so, what are the linguistic characteristics? Under the direction of Dr. Gregory Guy, Carina Bauman will investigate the interaction of language and ethnic identity by investigating language use within an Asian American sorority to answer the question how do these young women from diverse ethnic backgrounds work to collaboratively define what it means to be "Asian American." Important discourse events will be recorded to determine how particular linguistic resources are used to construct identities and community membership. Interviews will be recorded at the beginning and at the end of the academic year, and specific linguistics variables, such as prosody, phonation type, quotatives, and rising intonation, will be analyzed to investigate if they reveal patterns associated with ethnic identity. Linguistic data will also be collected from two control groups: Asian-American students not involved in an Asian-American sorority and college students of various ethnic backgrounds.Since Asian Americans have until recently been a relatively understudied group within sociolinguistics, this study has the potential to make an important contribution to our picture of language and ethnicity in the United States.

语言变量如何在日常互动中获得社会意义？语言在创造身份的过程中扮演了什么角色？有没有一种唯一地识别一个群体的说话方式？如果有，语言特征是什么？在格雷戈里·盖伊博士的指导下，卡琳娜·鲍曼将通过调查亚裔美国女生联谊会内的语言使用来研究语言和种族认同的相互作用，以回答这样一个问题：这些来自不同种族背景的年轻女性是如何合作定义“亚裔美国人”的含义的。重要的话语事件将被记录下来，以确定如何使用特定的语言资源来构建身份和社区成员身份。访谈将在学年开始和结束时录制，并将分析特定的语言学变量，如韵律、发音类型、引语和上升语调，以调查它们是否揭示了与种族认同相关的模式。语言数据也将从两个对照群体中收集：没有参加亚裔姐妹会的亚裔美国学生和不同种族背景的大学生。由于亚裔美国人直到最近在社会语言学中一直是一个相对较少被研究的群体，这项研究有可能对我们了解美国的语言和种族做出重要贡献。