Doctoral Dissertation Research: Language Ideology and Cultural Pluralism in Montreal's Haitian Radioscape

在纽约大学Bambi Schieffelin博士的指导下，博士生Chantal White将通过对无线电通信的形式语言学和社会语言学分析，对语言意识形态、语言实践和身份进行研究。研究人员将研究多民族和多语言背景下的广播制作人如何利用、调解和转变不同语言品种的意识形态标记。这项研究将在加拿大montracimal进行，在那里，研究人员将集中研究海地人特性发展的具体情况。在更大的社会历史背景下，研究人员将特别注意受这些政策最直接影响和针对的人的选择和影响，因为quemail的官方文化和语言政策旨在通过推广法语建立一个独特的社会。研究人员将结合参与观察、半定向访谈、社会网络分析、无线电文件的文本分析，以及对话、话语和语音分析的广播和非广播语言实践。通过这些方法收集的数据将用于回答下列问题：1)谁参与了海地montracimal电台的制作，他们的日常工作和语言做法是什么，有助于制作适合听众的节目，并在海地电台中表现出复数qutracimbe的形象？2)在组织层面上，以一种或多种语言进行广播的决定是如何达成、实施和证明的？广播语言的选择对这些广播电台的日常运营有什么影响？3)是什么语言意识形态支撑和塑造了法语和Kreyòl每个广播电台的语言选择和语言政策，无论是在线还是离线，它们是如何通过语言实践表现出来的？通过关注海地广播制作人如何通过他们在广播中选择的语言融入到quacimbec的文化景观中，这项研究增加了广播的理论化，这是一种广泛但尚未得到充分研究的媒体。虽然关于社群如何利用视觉媒体来表现和定义自己已经做了很多工作，但这项研究将有助于理解社群通过声音来表现自己的不同方式。该项目还有助于社会科学家的教育和培训。

Doctoral student Chantal White, under the guidance of Dr. Bambi Schieffelin, New York University, will undertake research on language ideologies, language practices, and identity though formal linguistic and sociolinguistic analysis of radio communication. The researcher will examine how radio producers in a multi-ethnic and multilingual context draw on, mediate, and transform the ideological marking of different language varieties. The research will be conducted in Montréal, Canada, where the researcher will focus on the particular case of the development of Haitian identity. While situated within the larger socio-historical context of Québec's official cultural and language policies, aimed at forging a distinct society through the promotion of the French language, the researcher will pay particular attention to the choices and influence of the people who are most directly affected and targeted by these policies. The investigator will combine participant observation, semi-directed interviews, social network analysis, textual analysis of radio documents, and conversation, discourse and phonetic analyses of on- and off-air language practices. The data gathered through these methods will be used to answer the following questions: 1) Who is involved in Haitian radio production in Montréal and what are their everyday work and linguistic practices that contribute to generating audience-appropriate programming and representing an image of a plural Québec within Haitian radio? 2) How are decisions to broadcast in a language or a variety of language arrived at, implemented and justified at the organizational level and what are the consequences of on-air language choice on the daily operations of these radio stations? And 3) What are the language ideologies undergirding and shaping French and Kreyòl language choice and language policy at each radio station both on- and off-air, and how are they made evident through language practices? By attending to the ways Haitian radio producers negotiate their insertion into Québec's cultural landscape through their on-air language choices, this research adds to the theorization of radio, a widespread yet understudied medium. While much work has been done on the ways communities make use of visual media to represent and define themselves, this research will contribute to an understanding of the different ways a community get represented through its voices. The project also contributes to the education and training of a social scientist.