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Variation and language attitudes in Yurakaré: Setting out for a cross-linguistic perspective

Yurakare 中的变异和语言态度：跨语言视角的出发点

基本信息

批准号：
275274422
负责人：
Dr. Sonja Gipper
金额：
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依托单位：
Abteilung Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2014-12-31 至 2019-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/275274422?language=en
关键词：
Variation language attitudes Yurakar Setting

项目摘要

The proposed project investigates linguistic variation and its relation to language attitudes in Yurakaré, a language isolate spoken in the Amazonian lowlands of central Bolivia by an estimated number of 2,000 speakers. Patterns of linguistic variation have been shown to systematically interact with social factors like age, sex, social group, region, and speech style. However, most of these insights are based on studies of English and a few other large-scale Western languages. In contrast, our knowledge about linguistic variation and language attitudes in small-scale, non-Western languages is relatively small, even though the few pioneering studies show that such languages can differ from large Western languages with respect to the variation patterns they exhibit. Therefore, to arrive at a more comprehensive picture of variation in the languages of the world, more case studies of variation and language attitudes in small-scale non-Western languages are needed. One such case study will be provided by the proposed project. It pursues three main objectives: First, it aims at detecting and describing patterns of linguistic variation in Yurakaré. For this purpose, a corpus study will be carried out using a corpus that has already been compiled by the applicant. To corroborate the findings, a questionnaire survey will be conducted in two Yurakaré villages, collecting systematic speech data from speakers representing all relevant social groups. The second objective of the project is to examine the relation between variation and language attitudes. For this purpose, the questionnaire survey will collect data on the consultants' perception of different variants, on their language socialization, and on their attitudes toward different variants. The third objective of the project is to embed the findings in a broader cross-linguistic and theoretical context by investigating the relation of variation within particular languages to linguistic diversity. To achieve this, the applicant will cooperate with Nicholas Evans from the Australian National University in Canberra. In his project "The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity" Evans and his colleagues investigate this question on the basis of a number of case studies. The comparative analysis will reveal which social factors promote and suppress variation, and how language attitudes work as amplifiers of this process. The proposed project will constitute one of the case studies, representing the diversity hotspot of Amazonia. In sum, the proposed project contributes to the description and documentation of the Yurakaré language, thus augmenting our knowledge of the world's languages. Moreover, it enhances our understanding of the relation between linguistic variation and language attitudes in small-scale languages. Further, it contributes to a newly emerging field of scientific investigation, pioneering in revealing the mechanisms of linguistic diversification.

拟议的项目调查尤拉卡雷的语言变异及其与语言态度的关系。尤拉加雷是玻利维亚中部亚马孙低地的一种孤立语言，估计有2000人说这种语言。语言变异的模式已经被证明与年龄、性别、社会群体、地区和言语风格等社会因素系统地相互作用。然而，这些见解大多是基于对英语和其他一些大规模西方语言的研究。相比之下，我们对小规模非西方语言的语言变异和语言态度的了解相对较少，尽管少数开创性的研究表明，这些语言在表现出的变异模式方面可能不同于大型西方语言。因此，为了更全面地了解世界语言的变异情况，需要对小规模非西方语言的变异和语言态度进行更多的个案研究。拟议的项目将提供一个这样的案例研究。它追求三个主要目标：第一，它的目的是发现和描述尤拉卡雷的语言变异模式。为此目的，将使用申请人已经汇编的语料库进行语料库研究。为了证实调查结果，将在两个Yurakaré村庄进行问卷调查，从代表所有相关社会群体的发言者那里收集系统的演讲数据。该项目的第二个目标是考察变异和语言态度之间的关系。为此，问卷调查将收集咨询人员对不同变体的感知、他们的语言社会化以及他们对不同变体的态度的数据。该项目的第三个目标是通过调查特定语言内的变异与语言多样性的关系，将调查结果嵌入更广泛的跨语言和理论背景中。为了实现这一目标，申请者将与堪培拉澳大利亚国立大学的尼古拉斯·埃文斯合作。在他的项目《语言多样性的源泉》中，埃文斯和他的同事们在大量案例研究的基础上研究了这个问题。对比分析将揭示哪些社会因素促进和抑制变异，以及语言态度如何作为这一过程的放大器。拟议的项目将构成案例研究之一，代表亚马逊地区的多样性热点。总之，拟议的项目有助于对尤拉加雷语言的描述和记录，从而增加我们对世界语言的了解。此外，它还加深了我们对小规模语言中语言变异和语言态度之间关系的理解。此外，它还促进了一个新兴的科学调查领域，率先揭示了语言多样化的机制。