Conference: Language Variety in the South (LAVIS IV): The New South

会议：南方的语言多样性（LAVIS IV）：新南方

• 批准号: 1451103
• 负责人: Jeffrey Reaser
• 金额: $ 3.22万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-02-15 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1451103&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Language; Variety; South; LAVIS

Apart from a few urban centers (e.g., Atlanta, GA; Washington, DC; and Memphis, TN), the South has had largely a rural history, but the region has become increasingly complex over the past half-century. Raleigh, NC, for example, where Language Variation in the South (henceforth, "LAVIS IV") will be held, has more than quadrupled in size over this period, growing from 100,000 to 435,000 residents due to an economic and cultural transformation. Other Southern cities are experiencing similar growth, and by most accounts, the majority of the fastest growing American cities are now found in the US South. But the story is more complex than uniform demographic and economic boom; many traditionally important Southern cities, including Birmingham, AL; Knoxville, TN; and Richmond, VA, have grown little over this period. Further, non-metro regions have also undergone other cultural changes. The Appalachian Mountain region and Creole culture in Louisiana, for example, has been changed in part due to tourism, making the local history and dialect a potential cultural commodity even as the number of economically distressed counties in these regions has grown. "The New South" is, in part, a story of demographic and economic boom alongside population and financial recession, but many other compelling narratives exist as well, including the cultural and demographic transformations brought by immigrants from all over the world including Asians (Chinese, Vietnamese, Hmong, Indian, Pakistani, etc.), Middle Easterners (Lebanese, Iraqi, Egyptian, Saudi, Yemeni, etc.) and Southern and Eastern Europeans (Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, etc.). Clearly the most visible new group in the region is the recently arrived Hispanic population, which has resulted in the region having the largest percentage of monolingual non-English speakers of any in the United States.The fourth decennial meeting of LAVIS brings together top sociolinguistic researchers from around the US to draw scholarly and public attention to the most prominently recognized regional variety of English in the United States. The examination of an array of factors (e.g., regional, ethnic, urban, rural, status, gender, style, etc.) demonstrates how diverse and complex Southern language variation is, and the impact that language variation has on social perception of the South, including persistent and unjustified stereotypes of Southern speech. The themes explored by the panelists span regional groups (Appalachian) and ethnic groups (African Americans, Latinos, Cajuns, etc.); long standing minority groups (African Americans and Cherokee) and new immigrant populations (Chinese Americans, Hungarians, Italians, and Hispanics); urban and rural groups, etc. The specific objectives for LAVIS IV consider sociolinguistic issues related to social, economic, and political change embedded in the construct of "The New South" for both longstanding populations (e.g., Native American Indian, African American, Cajun) and more recent immigrants, all of which lay the foundation for the continued linguistic research on language stability and change in the American South.

除了少数几个城市中心（如佐治亚州的亚特兰大、华盛顿特区和田纳西州的孟菲斯），南方大部分地区都有农村历史，但在过去的半个世纪里，该地区变得越来越复杂。以北卡罗来纳州的罗利为例，由于经济和文化的转型，南部语言变化（以下简称“LAVIS IV”）将在这里举行，在此期间，罗利的人口增加了四倍多，从10万人增加到43.5万人。其他南方城市也在经历类似的增长，而且从大多数人的角度来看，大多数增长最快的美国城市现在都在美国南部。但这个故事比统一的人口和经济繁荣更为复杂；许多传统上重要的南方城市，包括阿拉巴马州的伯明翰；诺克斯维尔,TN;和弗吉尼亚州里士满在此期间几乎没有增长。此外，非大都市地区也经历了其他文化变化。例如，阿巴拉契亚山脉地区和路易斯安那州的克里奥尔文化在一定程度上因旅游业而改变，使当地的历史和方言成为潜在的文化商品，尽管这些地区经济不景气的县的数量在增加。在某种程度上，《新南方》是一个人口和经济繁荣与人口和金融衰退并存的故事，但也存在许多其他令人信服的叙述，包括来自世界各地的移民带来的文化和人口转型，包括亚洲人（中国人、越南人、苗族人、印度人、巴基斯坦人等）、中东人（黎巴嫩人、伊拉克人、埃及人、沙特人、也门人等）以及南欧和东欧人（阿尔巴尼亚人、波斯尼亚人、保加利亚人等）。显然，该地区最引人注目的新群体是最近抵达的西班牙裔人口，这导致该地区拥有美国最大比例的单语非英语人口。LAVIS的第四届十年一次会议汇集了来自美国各地的顶级社会语言学研究人员，以引起学术界和公众对美国最突出的公认的区域性英语变体的关注。对一系列因素（例如，地区、种族、城市、农村、地位、性别、风格等）的研究表明，南方语言的变化是多么多样和复杂，以及语言变化对南方社会认知的影响，包括对南方语言的持续和不合理的刻板印象。小组成员探讨的主题跨越地区群体（阿巴拉契亚）和种族群体（非洲裔美国人，拉丁美洲人，卡津人等）；长期存在的少数群体（非裔美国人和切诺基人）和新移民群体（华裔美国人、匈牙利人、意大利人和西班牙人）；城乡群体等。LAVIS IV的具体目标是考虑与“新南方”结构中嵌入的社会，经济和政治变化相关的社会语言学问题，这些问题适用于长期人口（例如，美洲印第安人，非洲裔美国人，卡津人）和最近的移民，所有这些都为美国南方语言稳定和变化的持续语言学研究奠定了基础。