Doctoral Dissertation Research: Chinese Nationals Among "Overseas Chinese" in Singapore: The Sociolinguistics of Multiple Linguistic Identities

在基思沃尔特斯博士和张庆博士的指导下，李尔欣女士将为她的论文进行实地研究。她将研究来自中华人民共和国（也称为中国大陆或中国）的专业工作者的语言实践，这些工作者生活在多民族的新加坡，那里的成熟社区以新加坡出生的华人为主。她将研究中国公民在多大程度上使用与新加坡相关的语言资源，即新加坡英语和普通话，以索引新加坡社会和更广泛的跨国华人背景下的多重身份。除了研究语言混合的模式，她还将研究在一系列风格和社会背景下使用特定的语音和词汇特征的模式，以及包括说话者关于语言和身份的意识形态的话语数据。李将结合联合收割机的民族志观察说话者的语言行为在一系列的情况和背景与元语言数据记录从参与者的自我录音和一对一和小组访谈。该项目有助于语言学和语言人类学的语言使用模式如何与身份的多个层面联系起来，特别是在影响力是本地和跨国的情况下。在更大的范围内，该项目还促使人类学家、经济学家和社会学家越来越有兴趣研究新的移徙模式如何使移徙者与其原籍国之间保持牢固的经济、文化和情感联系。

Under the supervision of Drs. Keith Walters and Qing Zhang, Ms. Er-Xin Lee will conduct fieldwork research for her dissertation. She will study the linguistic practices of professional workers from the People's Republic of China (also referred to as Mainland China or China) who are living in multiethnic Singapore, where an established community of Singaporean-born Chinese predominates. She will examine the extent to which the Chinese nationals use the language resources associated with Singapore, that is, Singaporean English and Mandarin, to index multiple identities within the Singaporean society and within a broader transnational Chinese context. Besides examining patterns of language mixing, she will also study patterns in the use of specific phonological and lexical features across a range of styles and social contexts, as well as discursive data comprising speakers' ideologies regarding language and identity. Lee will combine ethnographic observations of speakers' language behaviors across a range of situations and contexts with metalinguistic data recorded from participants' self-recordings and from one-on-one and group interviews. This project contributes to an understanding within linguistics and linguistic anthropology of how patterns of language use can be linked to multiple layers of identity, specifically where the forces of influence are both local and transnational. On a larger scale, the project also contributes to a growing interest among anthropologists, economists, and sociologists in studying the ways in which new migration patterns have allowed strong economic, cultural and emotional ties to be maintained between migrants and their sending countries.