Doctoral Dissertation Research: Does language affect cultural identity among minority populations?

博士论文研究：语言会影响少数民族的文化认同吗？

• 批准号: 2241654
• 负责人: Thomas Hansen
• 金额: $ 1.68万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-15 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241654&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Does; language

Globalization has contributed to both blurring and retrenchment of ethnic boundaries. On the one hand, acculturation can lead to one population absorbing another; on the other, populations may cleave to specific identity markers as ways of distinguishing themselves from others. How different markers operate to impact these processes remains poorly understood. This doctoral dissertation project investigates how minority populations sharing cultural, linguistic, and religious identities leverage different markers to claim a coherent group identity. The project trains a graduate student in scientific cultural anthropology and disseminates its findings broadly to academic and non-academic audiences. The project seeks to investigate how minority and majority populations interact and shape each other’s identities, cultural markers, and claims of political belonging. Using participant observation, surveys, interviews, and archival research, the investigators query the following: 1) how literary, religious, and ethnic associations understand and interpret linguistic and ethnic identities; and if and in what ways language and other ethnic markers are used by majority and minority populations to interpret political belonging. In doing so, the researchers help to resolve fundamental questions regarding interrelationships among populations and the markers they use to mediate those relationships.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.

全球化已导致种族边界的模糊和裁员。一方面，适应会导致一个人群吸收另一个人群。另一方面，人口可能会清楚特定的身份标志物，因为将自己与他人区分开来。不同的标记如何影响这些过程仍然知之甚少。该博士学位论文项目调查了少数民族如何共享文化，语言和宗教身份，以利用不同的标记来声称具有连贯的群体身份。该项目训练一名科学文化人类学研究生，并将其发现广泛地传播给学术和非学术受众。该项目旨在调查少数派和多数人如何互动和塑造彼此的身份，文化标志和政治归属的主张。研究人员使用参与观察，调查，访谈和档案研究，以下查询：1）文学，宗教和种族协会如何理解和解释语言和种族身份；如果多数人和少数族裔使用语言和其他种族标记来解释政治归属，那么语言和其他种族标记。为此，研究人员帮助解决有关人群之间的相互关系以及用来调节这些关系的标记的基本问题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来通过评估来支持的。