Dissertation Research: Language, Orthography and Culture in Turkey and Azerbaijan

9904388 Sherzer/ Grocer该项目支持来自德克萨斯大学的人类学学生的论文研究，研究语言态度和正字法实践在土耳其和阿塞拜疆之间的社会文化和地缘政治关系的创造，谈判和维护中的作用，中亚的土耳其语共和国。 学生将展示如何在语言和沟通的辩论中表达和谈判民族，宗教，语言，历史，文化，宗教和学术联系。 特别是，该项目将研究关于建立一个共同的土耳其语言和字母的争论，这是土耳其学者设计的两个超国家项目，旨在将土耳其人民团结在一个共同的语言特征之下。 结合语言和文化话语分析的理论和方法，学生将分析建立泛土耳其语言的会议录像带，将采访土耳其和阿塞拜疆的学者，政治家，商人以及私人公民。除了分析录音和进行正式的采访，学生将使用匹配伪装的方法，其中双语者阅读相同的文本在两种语言的录音将被用来引发对语言和人民谁讲他们的无意识的态度。 该项目将提供关于讲土耳其语的穆斯林对一个国家相关问题的态度的重要新知识，这将对研究中亚以及世界其他地区类似情况的学者有用。 此外，该项目还支持培训一名年轻的社会科学家，并增进我们对世界这一重要领域的了解。

9904388Sherzer / Grocer This project supports the dissertation research of an anthropology student from the University of Texas, studying the role of language attitudes and orthographic practices in the creation, negotiation and maintenance of socio-cultural and geopolitical relations between Turkey and Azerbaijan, a Turkish speaking republic on Central Asia. The student will show how ethnic, religious, linguistic historic, cultural, religious, and scholarly affiliations are expressed and negotiated in debates over language and communication. In particular the project will study the arguments over the establishment of a common Turkish language and alphabet, two supranational projects designed by Turkish scholars to unite the Turkish peoples under a common rubric of linguistic identity. Combining theories and methods from discourse analysis of language and culture, the student will analyze tapes of conferences on establishing a pan-Turkish language, will interview scholars, politicians, business persons, as well as private citizens in Turkey and Azerbaijan. In addition to analyzing recordings and conducting formal interviews, the student will use a matched-guise method, where tape recordings of bilingual speakers reading the same text in two languages will be used to elicit unconscious attitudes towards languages and peoples who speak them. This project will provide important new knowledge about the attitudes of Turkish speaking Muslims on an issue of national relevance, that will be useful to scholars of comparable situations in Central Asia as well as other parts of the world. In addition the project supports the training of a young social scientist, and advances our knowledge of this important area of the world.