Doctoral Dissertation Research: Using Ethnographic Methods to Document the Garifuna Language

说话人对面试中语言使用的反应往往偏向于正式的和规定性的规范。 通过收集和分析日常对话、叙述和包括祖先仪式在内的语言化事件的视频和音频记录，艾莉森·布洛克在弗吉尼亚大学的伊芙·丹齐格的指导下，将创建一个语料库自然主义的加里富纳语。 结果语料库中的数据样本将只受到数据收集过程的最小影响。 加里富纳语（Garifuna）是一种阿拉瓦坎语，在几个中美洲国家和加勒比海圣文森特岛使用。 Broach将记录危地马拉的品种，其中很少有人写。 加里富纳之所以令人感兴趣，是因为它独特的历史渊源，通过这种渊源，它获得了加勒比和西非的特征。 使用最先进的民族志和语言文献方法记录加里富纳，Broach将深入研究从西班牙语和法语到加里富纳的形态和词汇借用，加里富纳与这些语言有密切联系。 这些数据将导致分析加里富纳如何随着时间的推移而变化，特别是随着西班牙语和英语取代加里富纳成为语言社区成员的首选语言。 研究结果还将为正在进行的加里富纳语言振兴工作提供信息。 加里富纳的数据将被存档在拉丁美洲土著语言档案馆和LIBRA，这是一个面向弗吉尼亚大学学者的在线开放获取库。

Speaker responses about language use in interview settings are often skewed towards formal and prescriptively sanctioned norms. By collecting and analyzing video and audio recordings of everyday conversations, narratives, and routinized speech events including ancestor rituals, Alison Broach under the direction of Eve Danziger of the University of Virginia will create a corpus naturalistic Garifuna [cab] speech. The data samples in the resulting corpus will have been only minimally affected by the data collection process. Garifuna is an Arawakan language spoken in several Central American countries and on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Broach will document the Guatemalan variety about which little has been written. Garifuna is of interest because of its unique historical origins through which it has acquired both Carib and West African features. Documenting Garifuna using both state-of-the-art ethnographic and language documentation methods, Broach will study in depth the morphological and lexical borrowings into Garifuna from Spanish and French, languages with which Garifuna is in close contact. This data will then lead to an analysis of how Garifuna has changed over time, especially as Spanish and English replace Garifuna as the language of choice for member of the speech community. Results will also inform ongoing Garifuna language revitalization efforts. Garifuna data will be archived at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America and at LIBRA, an online open access repository for University of Virginia scholars.