Scholars Award: Methodological Training for Visualizing Linguistic Diversity

科学家依靠获得新的分析技术来提高他们的研究能力，并将他们的发现传达给公众。该学者奖项目为研究人员提供定量研究，地理空间分析和数据可视化方面的培训，以创建理解和代表多语言社区语言多样性的新工具。该项目将扩大代表性不足的群体在科学领域的参与，还将对本科生、研究生和高中生进行人种学、语言学和空间制图以及其他视觉方法的培训。来自更大项目的数据也将传播给政策制定者和教育工作者。斯坦福大学的乔纳森·罗莎博士对当代多语言现象进行了广泛的研究，重点关注美国拉丁裔社区，他将在史密斯学院空间分析实验室度过一个夏季和一个学期，在那里，他将获得必要的方法技能，以（1）进行一个长期项目，结合社区多种语言的定量和定性分析;（2）为语言数据创建新的可视化工具，包括交互式地图，提供更复杂的？风景？（3）在这些新的研究方法中培训本科生和研究生以及社区成员。该项目将通过培训研究人员掌握新颖的可视化技术来推进语言人类学和语言学领域，这些技术是社会语言建模的前沿。

Scientists depend on acquiring new analytical techniques to improve their research abilities and communicate their findings to the public. This Scholars Award project provides a researcher with training in quantitative research, geo-spatial analysis, and data visualization in order to create new tools for understanding and representing linguistic diversity in multilingual communities. This project would broaden participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences by also training undergraduate, graduate, and high school students in ethnographic, linguistic, and spatial mapping and other visual methods. The data from the larger project would also be disseminated to policymakers and educators.Dr. Jonathan Rosa of Stanford University, who has conducted extensive research on contemporary multilingualism focusing on U.S. Latina/o communities, will spend a summer month and a semester at the Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab, where he will obtain the methodological skills necessary to (1) conduct a long-term project combining quantitative and qualitative analyses of community multilingualism; (2) create new visualization tools for linguistic data, including interactive maps, providing a more complex ?view? of linguistic diversity; and (3) train undergraduate and graduate students, as well as community members, in these new research methodologies. The project would advance the fields of linguistic anthropology and linguistic by training the researcher in novel visualization techniques that are on the leading edge for modeling language in society.