Spatio-linguistic practices in a transnational context: Social differentiation and agency in the bateyes of the Dominican Republic

跨国背景下的空间语言实践：多米尼加共和国蝙蝠的社会分化和代理

• 批准号: 443070760
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Silke Jansen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Geographie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/443070760?language=en
• 关键词: Spatio; linguistic; practices; transnational; context

The island of Hispaniola is shared today by the nation states Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The hegemonic narrative of Dominican national identity constructs Haiti as an opposite on the basis of differences in language, skin color and religion. Since the late 19th century, the idea that defending the national language is tantamount to defending the national territory (and vice versa) has been a core element of metalinguistic discourses and linguistic policies. It also pervades current debates on migration, which are a source of fierce controversy in Dominican politics and society. The complex and conflictive interplay between language, space and the construction of national identity is particularly acute in the Dominican bateyes. Those are rural settlements created at the beginning of the 20th century for the temporary housing of cane plantation and sugar production plant workers, who, in the Dominican context, are mainly migrants from Haiti. Since then, the bateyes have become a laboratory for transnational mobilities in a rural setting. The present study takes the bateyes as microcosmos in order to analyze the interplay between language and the construction of space in migration contexts. It focuses on spatio-linguistic practices (SLP) a concept the applicants propose for practices related to language with allow people to produce and negotiate space, as well as to position themselves in (social and geographic) space through language. Under an interdisciplinary framework that integrates approaches from sociolinguistics and human geography, the following research questions will be addressed: 1. Which SLP can be identified among the inhabitants of the Dominican bateyes?2. How do the inhabitants of the bateyes produce social differentiation through SLP? 3. Which relations can be traced betweenSLP, constructions of spaces, and the inhabitants’ accumulation of agency? The project aims at integrating sociolinguistic and geographical approaches to develop novel methodologies for the study of language and space in relation to transnationalism. SLP will be documented through biographic narratives gathered in semi-structured interviews, using a time line tool and a social and spatial mapping tool. In addition, socio-linguistic questionnaires will be applied for triangulation. The interviews will be transcribed and analyzed under an interpretative paradigm, with a special focus on spatial and social reference management, indexical use of language and language variables, and discursive constructions and representations of the (trans)national space. Taking the bateyes as a laboratory of transnationalism in a rural setting on the micro-scale, this study will energize interdisciplinary research on migration, space and language in innovative ways, giving at the same timea voice to migrants themselves.

伊斯帕尼奥拉岛今天由海地和多米尼加共和国这两个国家共同拥有。多米尼加民族认同的霸权叙事将海地构建为基于语言、肤色和宗教差异的对立面。自19世纪末以来，捍卫民族语言就等于保卫国家领土(反之亦然)的观点一直是元语言话语和语言政策的核心要素。它还弥漫在目前关于移民的辩论中，这是多米尼加政治和社会中激烈争议的一个来源。语言、空间和国家认同的构建之间复杂而冲突的相互作用在多米尼加人中尤为尖锐。这些是20世纪初为甘蔗种植园和糖厂工人提供临时住房而建立的农村定居点，在多米尼加，这些工人主要是来自海地的移民。从那时起，巴特耶就成了农村地区跨国流动的实验室。本研究从微观角度分析了迁移语境中语言与空间建构之间的相互作用。它侧重于空间-语言实践(SLP)，这是申请人为与语言有关的实践提出的概念，使人们能够创造和谈判空间，并通过语言在(社会和地理)空间中定位自己。在一个整合了社会语言学和人文地理学方法的跨学科框架下，将解决以下研究问题：1.在多米尼加人中可以识别出哪种SLP？2.Bateyes居民如何通过SLP产生社会分化？3.SLP、空间结构和居民积累的中介之间可以追溯到什么关系？该项目的目的是将社会语言学和地理学方法结合起来，为研究跨民族的语言和空间问题制定新的方法。将使用时间线工具和社会和空间绘图工具，通过在半结构化访谈中收集的传记叙述来记录SLP。此外，还将使用社会语言问卷进行三角测量。访谈将在解释性范式下转录和分析，特别侧重于空间和社会参照管理、语言和语言变量的索引使用以及(跨)国家空间的话语结构和表述。这项研究将巴特耶作为农村地区微观环境中的跨民族实验室，将以创新的方式促进关于移民、空间和语言的跨学科研究，同时向移民本身发出声音。