Postdoctoral Fellowship: SPRF: Social Dynamics and Hierarchy in Grammar and Language Use: Documenting Honorifics

博士后奖学金：SPRF：语法和语言使用中的社会动态和层次结构：记录敬语

• 批准号: 2313734
• 负责人: Martha Tsutsui
• 金额: $ 17万
• 依托单位: Tsutsui, Martha Satoko
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2313734&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Fellowship; SPRF; Social; Dynamics

This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) and Linguistics programs. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Prof. Eric W. Campbell at University of California, Santa Barbara, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career researcher investigating language change and honorific systems. Honorifics are culturally specific terms that encode rich social information about hierarchical relations between a speaker and an addressee or the way in which a speaker creatively wishes to express or influence such a relation. They are uncommon across the languages of the world, but due to their cultural importance and contextual embeddedness, they are a crucial part of understanding how human language can be shaped by specialized usage of their speakers. Studies about honorifics are still relatively few, but almost nothing is known about how honorific are used and change in processes of language shift. This project will provide a linguistic documentation and description of the rapidly shifting honorific system. The data from this project could also be used for future sociolinguistic studies regarding social structures and how these structures affect language use in communities. More widely, understanding language-specific strategies gives us a deeper understanding of underlying principles of social interaction across languages and cultures.This project is fieldwork and community-based, collecting spontaneous interactional data from speakers in context to undertake a pragmatic documentation in the community. This project will draw upon notions of linguistic repertoire and indexicality among others from sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. This study will contribute to theoretical notions of linguistic honorification and explore how stylistic linguistic shrinkage, results in language loss in public domains and contexts where speakers would have historically used honorifics. This project contributes to the broader documentation of endangered languages that are considered “fragmentary,” according to UNESCO. This project will have several broader impacts, the most notable of which will be the community’s engagement and empowerment in the documentation of their language, which can be transformational for the revitalization of the language. As a part of this project, younger community members will continue to be trained in language documentation methods, enabling intergenerational cooperation and knowledge sharing. Data will also be archived, which will ensure the long-lasting preservation of the data for future academic and community purposes.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.

该奖项是作为NSF的社会，行为和经济科学博士后研究奖学金（SPRF）和语言学计划的一部分提供的。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界，工业或私营部门和政府的科学事业准备有前途的早期职业博士级科学家。SPRF的奖励包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。NSF致力于促进科学界所有部门的科学家参与其研究计划和活动，包括来自代表性不足的群体的科学家;博士后时期是实现这一目标的专业发展的重要水平。每个博士后研究员必须解决推进各自学科领域的重要科学问题。在Eric W.坎贝尔在加州大学，圣巴巴拉，这个博士后奖学金支持早期职业研究人员调查语言变化和敬语系统。敬语是特定文化的术语，编码了关于说话者和受话者之间等级关系的丰富社会信息，或者说话者创造性地希望表达或影响这种关系的方式。它们在世界上的语言中并不常见，但由于它们的文化重要性和语境嵌入性，它们是理解人类语言如何被说话者的专业用法塑造的关键部分。目前对敬语的研究还比较少，但对敬语在语言转换过程中的使用和变化情况几乎一无所知。这个项目将提供一个快速变化的敬语系统的语言文献和描述。该项目的数据也可用于未来的社会语言学研究，研究社会结构以及这些结构如何影响社区的语言使用。更广泛地说，理解特定语言的策略使我们更深入地了解跨语言和文化的社会互动的基本原则。这个项目是实地调查和社区为基础的，收集来自语境中的发言者的自发的interferencies数据，在社区进行语用文档。这个项目将借鉴社会语言学，语用学和话语分析等语言剧目和索引的概念。这项研究将有助于语言honorification的理论概念，并探讨如何文体语言收缩，在公共领域和语境中，扬声器将历史上使用honorics的语言损失的结果。根据教科文组织的说法，该项目有助于更广泛地记录被认为是“支离破碎”的濒危语言。该项目将产生若干更广泛的影响，其中最值得注意的将是社区参与和增强其语言文献工作的能力，这对振兴语言具有变革意义。作为该项目的一部分，年轻的社区成员将继续接受语言文件编制方法方面的培训，以促进代际合作和知识共享。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。