Doctoral Dissertation Research: Language, Interaction, and Adolescent Socialization.

这项由该奖项支持的研究将调查与学校同龄人和成年人的普通言语互动如何影响年轻人如何学习形成社会联盟、区分群体、表达情感和组织行动。众所周知，语言互动的性质在不同的教育机构中是不同的，反映了学生的背景、物质资源和管理者的意识形态。研究人员将通过对两个不同教育机构的日常语言练习进行深入的比较研究来检验这一过程。这项研究的目的是阐明日常语言练习的微观实践如何为青少年在高中后的发展轨迹中扮演不同的社会角色做好准备。这项研究很重要，因为年轻人在学校学习的语言和社交能力将把他们带入成年。这些发现将有助于理论家更好地理解异质社会身份产生背后的机制。这项研究还将支持教育工作者和其他利益相关者，他们关心的是拓宽年轻人的机会。这项研究将由加州大学洛杉矶分校的语言人类学博士生泰安娜·斯洛贝进行，她的导师是诺玛·门多萨-丹顿博士。这位研究人员关注的是智利圣地亚哥两所高中的青少年。一所是免费公立学校，另一所是昂贵的私立学校。这位研究人员之所以选择这些研究地点，是因为智利的教育系统是所有发达国家中最隔离的系统之一，这使得以一种在一个制度交叉更多的系统中不可能实现的方式来隔离学校教育的影响是可行的。研究人员将使用语言人类学的密集方法来收集有关课堂和课外活动中自然发生的互动中的语音和具体化手势的数据。数据将通过参与者观察、访谈和视听录音来收集，以确定学生在学校职业生涯的不同阶段。她将构建音调轨迹的视觉表示，伴随着语音的转录和具体化运动的表示，使用一种在交互中对多模式符号通道进行视觉和文本表示的方法。通过比较公立和私立学校在毕业前的互动，研究人员将能够探索小规模语言变异、语言实践、机构组织和社会政治结构之间的关系。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The research supported by this award will investigate how ordinary speech interactions with peers and adults at school affect how young people learn to form social alignments, distinguish groups, express emotion, and organize action. The nature of linguistic interactions is known to vary in different institutions of education in ways that reflect the backgrounds of students, material resources, and ideologies of administrators. The researcher will examine this process through an intensive comparative study of everyday language practices in two contrasting institutions of education. The goal of the research is to elucidate how the micro-practices of daily linguistic practice prepare youth for diverse social roles in their post-high school trajectories. The research is important because the linguistic and social competencies that youth learn in school will carry them into adulthood. Findings will help theoreticians better understand the mechanism behind the production of heterogeneous social identities. The research also will support educators and other stakeholders who are concerned to broaden young people's opportunities.The research will be conducted by Tyanna Slobe, a linguistic anthropology doctoral student under the supervision of Dr. Norma Mendoza-Denton at the University of California Los Angeles. The researcher focus on adolescents in two high schools in Santiago, Chile. One is a free public school and the other an expensive private school. The researcher has chosen these research sites because Chile has one of the most segregated systems of education of all developed countries, which makes it feasible to isolate the effects of schooling in a way that would not be possible in a system with more institutional crossover. The researcher will use the intensive methods from linguistic anthropology to collect data on voice and embodied gesture in naturally occurring interactions during classroom and extracurricular activities. Data will be collected through participant observation, interviews, and audiovisual recordings, identifying students at different points in their school careers. She will construct visual representations of pitch tracks, to accompany transcriptions of speech and representations of embodied movement, using a method for visual and textual representation of multimodal semiotic channels in interaction. By comparing interactions in public and private school contexts until graduation, the researcher will be able to explore relationships between small-scale language variation, linguistic practice, institutional organization, and sociopolitical structure.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.