Scholars Award: Methodological Training for Visualizing Linguistic Diversity

科学家依靠获得新的分析技术来提高他们的研究能力，并向公众传播他们的发现。该学者奖项目为研究人员提供定量研究、地理空间分析和数据可视化方面的培训，以创造新的工具来理解和代表多语言社区的语言多样性。该项目还将对本科生、研究生和高中生进行人种学、语言学、空间制图和其他视觉方法的培训，从而扩大代表性不足的群体在科学领域的参与。更大项目的数据也将分发给决策者和教育工作者。斯坦福大学（Stanford University）的乔纳森·罗莎（Jonathan Rosa）对美国拉丁裔/非拉丁裔社区的当代多语言现象进行了广泛的研究，他将在史密斯学院空间分析实验室（Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab）度过一个夏季的一个月和一个学期，在那里他将获得必要的方法论技能，以便：(1)开展一项结合社区多语言现象定量和定性分析的长期项目；(2)为语言数据创建新的可视化工具，包括交互式地图，提供更复杂的视图。语言多样性；(3)用这些新的研究方法培训本科生和研究生以及社区成员。该项目将通过训练研究人员使用新颖的可视化技术来推动语言人类学和语言学领域的发展，这些技术在社会语言建模方面处于领先地位。

Scientists depend on acquiring new analytical techniques to improve their research abilities and communicate their findings to the public. This Scholars Award project provides a researcher with training in quantitative research, geo-spatial analysis, and data visualization in order to create new tools for understanding and representing linguistic diversity in multilingual communities. This project would broaden participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences by also training undergraduate, graduate, and high school students in ethnographic, linguistic, and spatial mapping and other visual methods. The data from the larger project would also be disseminated to policymakers and educators.Dr. Jonathan Rosa of Stanford University, who has conducted extensive research on contemporary multilingualism focusing on U.S. Latina/o communities, will spend a summer month and a semester at the Smith College Spatial Analysis Lab, where he will obtain the methodological skills necessary to (1) conduct a long-term project combining quantitative and qualitative analyses of community multilingualism; (2) create new visualization tools for linguistic data, including interactive maps, providing a more complex ?view? of linguistic diversity; and (3) train undergraduate and graduate students, as well as community members, in these new research methodologies. The project would advance the fields of linguistic anthropology and linguistic by training the researcher in novel visualization techniques that are on the leading edge for modeling language in society.