Doctoral Dissertation Research: Reported Speech and Discursive Authority among the Nantis of the Peruvian Amazon

在Joel Sherzer博士的指导下，Lev Michael先生将为他的博士论文进行实地考察。他对南提人（秘鲁亚马逊地区的一个土著民族）进行了语言和人种学研究，重点关注个人如何在对话中创造个人权威，以及这些语言的使用如何与新成立的南提定居点中最近出现的社区领袖联系起来。迈克尔先生将研究南提斯是如何相互引用的，以及某些人话语的传播和复制如何导致这些人产生更大的影响。他还将比较传统的单户定居点和新定居点的语言使用，特别是引文。这项研究将包括南蒂人在不同社会环境下的现场互动记录，迈克尔先生将对这些记录进行转录和分析。他还将追踪重要社会事件的演讲是如何被重复并在社区中传播的，为南蒂人提供个人便携式录音设备，使他们能够进行日常工作。最后一条我看不懂。在你带着录音机到来之前，他们不是早就能开展日常业务了吗？这个项目将产生几个影响。首先，它对社会组织和语言使用之间关系的研究将为语言学和人类学之间的理论框架提供一个试验场。其次，它将提供话语如何在说话者群体中传播的信息，这是语言学家和人类学家感兴趣的领域。第三，这个项目将有助于这个未描述语言的文档。这份文件将直接造福南提人，为他们的社区提供双语教育材料。最后，本研究将有助于改善南提斯和其他人之间的沟通，通过澄清引文在南提斯沟通中的核心作用，这是南提斯和工业化世界的代表之间频繁沟通不端的根源，他们现在必须与之斗争。这似乎有些宏伟。你的研究有哪些具体方面会产生这种影响？］

Under the direction of Dr. Joel Sherzer, Mr. Lev Michael will conduct fieldwork for his doctoral dissertation. His linguistic and ethnographic research among the Nantis, an indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon, will focus on how individuals create personal authority in conversation and how these uses of language relate to the recent emergence of community leaders in newly-formed Nanti settlements. Mr. Michael will examine how Nantis quote each other and how the circulation and reproduction of certain peoples' utterances leads to the greater influence of these individuals. He will also compare language use, and quotation in particular, in the more traditional single-family settlements and in the new settlements. This research will include recordings of live interactions between Nanti individuals in diverse social settings, which Mr. Michael will transcribe and analyze. He will also track how speech from important social events is repeated and spreads through the community by supplying Nanti individuals with [individual portable recording units that will enable them conduct their daily business. This last doesn't make sense to me. Weren't they able to conduct their daily business long before you arrived with recorders?]This project will have several impacts. First, its examination of the relationship between social organization and language use will provide a testing ground for theoretical frameworks bridging linguistics and anthropology. Second, it will provide information on how utterances circulate within a community of speakers, an area of interest to linguists and anthropologists. Third, this project will contribute to the documentation of this undescribed language. This documentation will directly benefit the Nanti people by generating materials for bilingual education in their communities. Finally, this research will [contribute to improving communication between Nantis and others by clarifying the central role of quotation in Nanti communication, which is a source of frequent miscommunication between Nantis and the representatives of the industrialized world with which they now must contend. This seems somewhat grand. What specific aspect of your research will have this impact?]