Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Grammar and Social Practice of Arapaho Storytelling: Stories in Conversational and Social Context

博士论文研究：阿拉帕霍讲故事的语法和社会实践：会话和社会背景下的故事

• 批准号: 2010588
• 负责人: J. Andrew Cowell
• 金额: $ 0.37万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2010588&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Grammar; Social

This project builds on the extensive linguistic research of the Arapaho language of the Algonquian family in North America to examine the role of grammar in the social practice of storytelling and story initiations. Previous studies in this and other Native American languages demonstrated value in exploring the conversational data for understanding the language and its social role. Such conversational habits as telling a story, complaining, reminiscing are the core principles of the linguistic repertoires observed in the Arapaho speech community. Thus, the proficiency to correctly tell a story or to produce a complaint without outing the main offender is as important as knowing one's relations.By examining the contemporary conversational practices of the native Arapaho speakers, the research asks how stories are initiated and what these initiations entail for the conversation. This research analyzes data collected in previous studies of the language, relying on the video recordings. The analysis will create a model of story initiations by annotating the grammatical nuances, auditory cues, and conversational patterns in the corpus. To test the viability of the model and the quality of annotations, the researchers will interview the native Arapaho speakers in the Wind River Indian Reservation. The interviews will be conducted using real-time communication technologies on mobile devices with cellular internet, which is the main reliable internet service available on the reservation. The inclusion of the native community is crucial for this project. It emphasizes the value of the language to the indigenous traditions. Lastly, this research will contribute to the language reclamation efforts in which this community is engaged. The grammatical and interactional aspects relevant to story initiations will inform the creation of language learning materials.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.

这个项目建立在对北美阿尔冈琴语系的阿拉帕霍语言的广泛语言学研究的基础上，以研究语法在讲故事和故事开始的社会实践中的作用。以前在这方面的研究和其他美洲原住民语言证明了探索会话数据的价值，以了解语言及其社会作用。诸如讲故事、抱怨、回忆之类的会话习惯是阿拉帕霍言语社区观察到的语言剧目的核心原则。因此，熟练地正确地讲一个故事，或产生投诉，而不郊游的主要罪犯是一样重要的，知道一个人的relations.By检查当代会话实践的本地阿拉帕霍speakers，研究询问故事是如何启动和这些启动意味着对话。本研究分析了以往语言研究中收集的数据，依靠录像。该分析将通过注释语料库中的语法细微差别、听觉线索和会话模式来创建故事启动的模型。为了测试模型的可行性和注释的质量，研究人员将采访风河印第安人保留地的土著阿拉帕霍人。访谈将使用带有蜂窝互联网的移动的设备上的实时通信技术进行，这是保留地上可用的主要可靠互联网服务。土著社区的参与对这个项目至关重要。它强调语言对土著传统的价值。最后，这项研究将有助于语言回收的努力，这一社区参与。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。