Doctoral Dissertation: Aboriginal Radio: A Political Economy of Speech and Sound in Indigenous Australia

在弗雷德·迈尔斯博士和Bambi B.Schieffelin博士的指导下，Daniel Fisher先生将为他的博士论文收集数据。他的实地工作将包括原住民媒体制作和接收的参与者观察研究，对话互动和原住民英语广播演讲流派的录音，以及关于澳大利亚多元文化和媒体政策的档案研究。他将调查土著媒体新出现的做法和机构与说话方式、诗歌和美学战略以及土著人民政治和经济环境变化之间的相关性。组织这个项目有三个问题：(1)为什么土著媒体和艺术在其他国家支持的社会倡议被评估为失败的情况下取得了巨大的成功？(2)在不同的土著社区内部和之间，如何通过广播传播与过去的新关系和通过演讲和音乐进行调解？(3)特定的语言、诗歌和美学战略与国家关于多元文化参与和土著自决的政策有何关系？这项研究在几个领域都具有重要意义。费希尔先生的研究为人类学提供了关于澳大利亚土著文化习俗以及土著人民和第四世界人民对电子视听媒体的占有情况的资料。随着世界各地的土著社区参与媒体制作，以确保他们的物质生存和文化未来，这些事态发展受到了越来越多的跨学科关注。该项目还有助于对电子媒介言语实践的人类学和社会语言学研究、语域的战略性动员、方言风格化和多语种和/或社会分层语言接触区的代码转换。最后，这项工作将引起研究皮钦人和克里奥尔人的学者的兴趣，有助于我们对土著英语的社会和语言特殊性的总体理解。

Under the direction of Dr. Fred Myers and Dr. Bambi B. Schieffelin, Mr. Daniel Fisher will collect data for his doctoral dissertation. His field work will include participant-observation research on Aboriginal media production and reception, audio recording of conversational interaction and broadcast speech genres in Aboriginal English, and archival research on Australian multicultural and media policies. He will investigate correlations among emergent practices and institutions of Aboriginal media with ways of speaking, poetic and aesthetic strategies, and changes in the political and economic circumstances of Indigenous people. Three questions organize the project: (1) Why have indigenous media and art achieved great success where other state-sponsored social initiatives are assessed as failures? (2) How are new relationships to the past and to place mediated through speech and music on the radio, both within and across diverse Aboriginal communities? (3) How do particular linguistic, poetic, and aesthetic strategies relate to state policies on multi-cultural participation and Aboriginal self-determination? This research is significant in several domains. Mr. Fisher's studies inform the anthropology of both Australian Aboriginal cultural practices and the appropriation of electronic audio and visual media by Indigenous and 4th world peoples. These developments have received increasing interdisciplinary attention as Indigenous communities around the world pursue engagements with media production to ensure their material survival and cultural futures. This project also contributes to anthropological and sociolinguistic research on electronically mediated speech practices, the strategic mobilization of register, dialect stylization, and code-switching in multilingual and/or socially stratified language contact zones. Finally, this work will interest scholars of pidgins and creoles by contributing to our general understanding of the social and linguistic specificity of Aboriginal English.