Dissertation Research: Language and Identity in a Ukrainian Border Community

这项授予密歇根大学的奖项支持一位在乌克兰的人类学研究生的论文研究。这名学生将在罗马尼亚附近的边境地区学习国家和地方政治认同的产生。学生将使用民族志和言语分析的方法，重点研究当地语言的使用，检验国家认同的形成受到与附近不同当地语言-方言社区的对比互动中形成的当地认同的阻碍的假设。方法包括对正式访谈和日常对话中记录的传记和话题对话进行人种学观察和正式语言分析。这项研究很重要，因为它将促进我们理解本土化的身份如何与语言标准化所依据的民族团结的意识形态不相容。在这个“民族政治”日益增多、多民族国家出现地方政治分裂倾向的时代，了解地方认同与国家认同的对比至关重要。此外，该项目还将增加该国在世界这一重要地区进行科学研究的能力。

This award to the University of Michigan supports the dissertation research of an anthropology graduate student in the Ukraine. The student will study the production of national and local political identities in a border region near Romania. Using methods of ethnography and of speech analysis and focusing on local language use, the student will test the hypothesis that national identity formation is impeded by local identities formed in contrastive interaction with nearby different local speech-dialect communities. Methods include ethnographic observation and formal linguistic analysis of biographic and topical conversations recorded in formal interviews and everyday conversations. This research is important because it will advance our understanding of how localized identities are incompatible with the ideology of national unity that underlies language standardization. Understanding how local identities contrast with national identities is of primary importance in this era of increasing `ethnic politics` and tendencies for local political fragmentation in multi-ethnic nation states. In addition the project will add to the nation's capacity for scientific research in this important region of the world.