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.

拟议的项目调查了语言差异及其与Yurakaré语言参与者的关系，Yurakaré是玻利维亚中部亚马逊低地的一种语言，估计有2,000名演讲者。语言差异的模式已被证明与年龄，性别，社会群体，地区和言语风格等社会因素有系统地相互作用。但是，这些见解中的大多数都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，我们对小型，非西方语言的语言差异和语言参与者的了解相对较小，尽管少数开拓性的研究表明，这些语言在暴露的变化模式方面可能与大型西方语言有所不同。因此，为了更全面地了解世界语言的差异，需要更多关于小型非西方语言的差异和语言参与者的案例研究。拟议项目将提供一个这样的案例研究。它追求三个主要目标：首先，它旨在检测和描述尤拉卡雷语言差异的模式。为此，将使用已适用的语料库进行研究。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团体的演讲者那里收集系统的语音数据。该项目的第二个目标是检查变异者和语言参与者之间的关系。为此，问卷调查将收集有关顾问对不同变体，语言社交以及参与者对不同变体的看法的数据。该项目的第三个目标是通过调查特定语言中的变化关系以实现这一目标，将发现嵌入更广泛的跨语言和理论背景下，适用的将与堪培拉澳大利亚国立大学的尼古拉斯·埃文斯（Nicholas Evans）合作。埃文斯（Evans）和他的同事在他的项目“语言多样性”项目中，根据许多案例研究调查了这个问题。比较分析将揭示哪些社会因素促进和抑制差异，以及语言如何作为此过程的放大器的工作方式。拟议的项目将构成案例研究之一，代表亚马逊的多样性热点。总而言之，拟议的项目有助于Yurakaré语言的描述和文档，从而增强了我们对世界语言的了解。此外，它增强了我们对语言差异与语言之间关系的理解。此外，它有助于新兴的科学研究领域，开创了揭示语言多样化的机制。