Doctoral Dissertation Research: Speech Registers and Religious Soundscapes

这个语言人类学研究项目涉及一个案例研究的背景下，宗教保守的妇女在宗教音景的边缘工作，作为一个特定类型的说教，旨在加深观众的信仰越来越多的声音参与者。该项目培训一名语言人类学博士生掌握科学严谨的数据收集和分析方法，研究如何讨论妇女的声音，无论是在声学质量的意义上，还是作为公共话语的一个类别，都是关于女性虔诚的辩论的核心，也是女性言论如何成为语言登记册的一个关键组成部分。通过研究妇女如何以语言上的创造性方式应对其边缘化的条件，该项目力求扩大在科学领域往往代表性不足的群体的参与，并通过语言学和人类学研究界之间的国际合作加强科学基础设施。莫尼克货车Rheenen，在密歇根大学的韦伯基恩博士的监督下，建议探讨宗教保守的妇女如何面对成为公众人物的挑战，同时在她们的语言实践中表现出适当的虔诚。研究人员将在两个地点进行（在两个以活跃的布道网络而闻名的主要城市），并在不同的调解环境中进行，包括面对面的互动，社交媒体沟通和大众媒体传播。利用民族志的沟通，参与者观察，international分析，并启发任务，研究者试图确定如何突出的语言变量，如音高和韵律采取了作为一个新兴的注册的女性语言的一部分。这项研究将有助于语言人类学中关于性别意识形态如何通过语言构建的辩论，宗教人类学中关于日常生活经验的理论，以及对机构和行动主义的分析。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This linguistic anthropological research project involves a case study of a context in which religiously conservative women work at the margins of a religious soundscape as increasingly vocal participants of a specific genre of preaching meant to deepen the audience's faith. This project, which trains a linguistic anthropology doctoral student in methods of scientifically rigorous data collection and analysis, examines how discussions of women's voices, both in the sense of acoustic qualities and as a category of public discourse, are central to debates about female piety and form a key component of how feminine speech becomes a linguistic register. By examining how women navigate the terms of their marginalization in linguistically creative ways, this project seeks to broaden the participation of groups often underrepresented in science and strengthens scientific infrastructure through international collaborations between both linguistic and anthropological research communities. Moniek van Rheenen, under the supervision of Dr. Webb Keane of the University of Michigan, proposes to explore how religiously conservative women face the challenge of being public figures while demonstrating appropriate piety in their linguistic practice. The researcher will be conducted at two sites (in two major cities known for their active preaching networks) and across different contexts of mediation, including face-to-face interaction, social media communication, and mass media circulation. Utilizing ethnographies of communication, participant observation, interactional analysis, and elicitation tasks, the researcher seeks to identify how salient linguistic variables such as pitch and prosody are taken up as part of an emerging register of feminine language. This research will contribute to debates in linguistic anthropology about how gender ideologies are constructed through language, theories in the anthropology of religion about everyday lived experience, and analyses of agency and activism.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.