Doctoral Dissertation Research: Language Choice, Code-Switching and Social Identity in Guadeloupe

在瓜德罗普，和其他地方一样，人们有几种语言资源-风格、方言、语域、变体、语言-可供选择。发言者可以选择一个或可以混合或交替不同的。瓜德罗普岛社会的复杂性和其模糊的政治地位使其成为研究代码选择，语言变异，语言意识形态和社会身份制定之间关系的一个引人注目的网站。瓜德罗普人是法国公民，几乎所有人都能讲法语和瓜德罗普克里奥尔语。本研究将探讨语码选择的社会模式，以及语码转换作为说话者可以选择的一种言语行为，这是一个进行此类研究的有利时机，因为该岛正在经历与语码社会分工有关的社会态度的转变。本研究采用民族志语言使用的研究，探讨如何显着的社会分工标记和代码选择和代码转换的模式产生。这项研究整合了两个主要的社会学焦点：语言在展示身份方面的作用，以及语言变异的意识形态成分。该分析框架结合了参与者观察和话语分析的定性方法（用于研究语码选择和语码混合的模式）和定量方法（用于测量语言态度和语言变异）。这项研究将有助于我们理解克里奥尔语，语言意识形态在语言选择和语言变异中的作用，语码转换的文化意义，以及言语在构建社会身份中的作用和语言在界定边界中的作用。

In Guadeloupe, as elsewhere, individuals have several linguistic resources - styles, dialects, registers, varieties, languages - from which to choose. Speakers may opt for one or may mix or alternate different ones. The complexity of Guadeloupean society and its ambiguous political status make it a compelling site in which to study the relationship between code choice, linguistic variation, language ideologies and the enactment of social identity. Guadeloupeans are French citizens and almost all are bilingual in French and Guadeloupean Creole. This project will investigate social patterns of code choice, as well as explore code-switching as one speech practice from which speakers may choose.This is a propitious time for such a study, as the island is experiencing a transformation in social attitudes related to the social division of codes. The present study uses ethnographic research on language use to examine how salient social divisions are marked and produced by patterns of code choice and code-switching. The research integrates two main sociological foci: the role of language in displaying identity, and the ideological components of language variation. The analytic framework combines qualitative methods of participant observation and discourse analysis (for studying patterns of code choice and code-mixing) with quantitative methods (for measuring language attitudes and linguistic variation). This study will contribute to our understanding of Creole languages, the role of language ideologies in language choice and language variation, the cultural meanings of code-switching, and the role of speech in constructing social identity and the role of language in defining boundaries.