Collaborative Research: Linguistic Production, Perception, and Identity in the Career Mobility of Black Faculty in Linguistics and the Language Sciences

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。这种混合方法的研究探讨如何在语言科学和相关领域的黑人教师语言导航他们的专业经验。黑人教师擅长在各种英语之间导航，具有很强的感知语言能力和语言灵活性。与此同时，语言不平等可能导致黑人教师通过不断评估他们的语言来体验种族主义的结构性现实。这些发现将深入了解语言歧视如何在学术界黑人学者的系统性代表性不足中发挥作用，以及语言如何在这些过程中发挥作用。该研究还研究了语言科学和相关领域的黑人学者的专业不平等，以提供语言研究人员可以用来扩大语言学部门和项目参与的精确数据。这项研究采用了以社区为基础的参与式方法，其中包括10个初级和中级职业学者从少数民族服务（MSIs）和主要是白色机构（PWIs）作为研究伙伴。该研究采用访谈，焦点小组和调查，以达到额外的100名黑人教师。该研究提出的主要问题是：如何以及何时在语言学和语言科学的黑人教师在高等教育中使用黑人语言的做法？他们的语言使用如何影响他们的学术参与和职业流动性？本研究通过衡量结构性种族主义和内化种族主义对语言选择的影响，检验和完善了语言从属关系的语言学模型。 这项研究建立在Co-PI先前的工作基础上，该工作通过分析学生在学术环境中导航语言期望时如何表达种族身份来研究黑人大学生的语言选择。本研究将采取类似的方法，逐步扩展理论和实证模型，以解决黑人教师面临的这些动态，增加了很多-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进行评估来支持审查标准。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). This mixed-methodological study examines how Black faculty in the language sciences and related areas linguistically navigate their professional experiences. Black faculty are skilled at navigating between varieties of English, with strong perceptual linguistic abilities and linguistic flexibility. At the same time, linguistic inequalities may cause Black faculty to experience the structural realities of racism through the continuous evaluation of their language. These findings will yield insight into how language discrimination plays a role in the systemic underrepresentation of Black scholars in academia and how language plays a role in those processes. The study also examines professional inequalities for Black scholars in the language sciences and related areas to provide precise data that language researchers can use to broaden participation in linguistics departments and programs. The study uses a community-based participatory approach that includes ten junior and mid-career scholars from Minority Serving (MSIs) and Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) as research partners. The study uses interviews, focus groups, and survey to reach additional 100 Black faculty. The main questions that the study asks are: How and when do Black faculty in linguistics and the language sciences use Black language practices in higher education? How has their linguistic use affected their academic participation and career mobility? The study tests and refines the linguistic model of language subordination by measuring the impacts of both structural and internalized racism on language choice. The study builds on the Co-PI’s prior work that examined the linguistic choices of Black undergraduates by analyzing how students variably express racial identity while navigating linguistic expectations in academic settings. This study will take a similar approach, incrementally extending theoretical and empirical models to address these dynamics facing Black faculty, adding much-needed nuance to the model regarding Black scholars while testing the applicability of linguistic models used in education to adult professionals.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.