Doctoral Dissertation Research: Listen So You Can Live Life the Way it's Supposed to be Lived: Paradoxes of Secrecy, Dictionary and Text at a New Mexico Pueblo

由这个博士论文改进补助金支持的研究探讨了字典的创建和新兴识字在新墨西哥州普韦布洛社区，以及如何在创建字典的过程中重新配置本地意识形态保密，作为社区语言振兴计划的一部分产生的第一个文本。 用这种历史上的口头语言创造书面材料的决定似乎与美国西南部许多部落在语言和文化上保守的声誉以及当地对控制社区内和社区间文化知识流通的重视不一致。 为每个条目构建的例句偏离了西方词典学的传统，西方词典学将这些句子概念化为有助于消除词汇歧义的工具，而是集中在传递必要的文化信息上，恳求读者“倾听，这样你就可以按照应该的方式生活”，正如这样一个句子明确指示的那样。 因此，字典作为一个矛盾的对象出现：被视为保存祖先语言的必要工具，但可能与当地人关于保密的信念不一致;同时是一个中立的参考书，也是创造性地包含突出文化信息的潜在场所。 这个项目的两个中心研究问题是针对这个文本生产的例子。 第一个领域的调查研究的性质，字典作为文本。 如果文本表达了其产生的社会条件和预期的未来，那么对文本如何运作的理解适用于词典？ 拟议的研究的第二个目标是如何在这个文件中的例句功能，以及如何在创建例句的过程中重新想象的语言意识形态保密。 采用民族志实地考察，比较词典学，和语言分析，本论文通知保密和紧急识字，基奥瓦-塔诺语言的语法研究的概念，并检查涉及语言振兴的流行话语。 该奖项由行为和认知科学部的语言学和文化人类学项目共同资助。

The research supported by this Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant examines dictionary creation and emergent literacy in a New Mexico Pueblo community, and how local ideologies privileging secrecy are reconfigured during the process of creating a dictionary, the first text produced as part of the community's language revitalization program. The decision to create written materials in this historically oral language is seemingly at odds with the linguistically and culturally conservative reputation many tribes in the US Southwest share and the local importance placed on controlling both intra- and intercommunity circulation of cultural knowledge. Example sentences constructed for each entry diverge from the Western tradition in lexicography which conceptualizes such sentences as tools useful for disambiguating lexical items, and instead center on imparting necessary cultural information, imploring readers to "Listen so you can live life the way it's supposed to be lived," as one such sentence explicitly instructs. Thus, the dictionary emerges as a paradoxical object: seen as a tool necessary for preserving the ancestral language, but potentially at odds with locally-held beliefs regarding secrecy; at once a neutral reference work and a potential place for creatively including salient cultural information. The two research questions at the center of this project are situated against this instance of textual production. The first area of inquiry examines the nature of dictionaries as texts. If texts articulate the social conditions of their production and projected futures, what kinds of understandings about how texts work apply to dictionaries? The second aim of the proposed study concerns how example sentences are functioning within this document, and how language ideologies privileging secrecy are being re-imagined during the creation of example sentences. Employing ethnographic fieldwork, comparative lexicography, and linguistic analysis, this dissertation informs conceptions of secrecy and emergent literacy, studies of the grammar of Kiowa-Tanoan languages, and examinations of prevalent discourses involving language revitalization. This award is co-funded by the Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology Programs in the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.