Spatio-linguistic practices in a transnational context: Social differentiation and agency in the bateyes of the Dominican Republic

伊斯帕尼奥拉岛今天由海地和多米尼加共和国两个民族国家共同拥有。多米尼加民族认同的霸权叙事在语言、肤色和宗教差异的基础上将海地建构为一个对立面。自19世纪末以来，捍卫民族语言就等于捍卫国家领土（反之亦然）的思想一直是元语言话语和语言政策的核心要素。它也渗透到当前关于移民的辩论中，这是多米尼加政治和社会中激烈争议的一个来源。语言、空间和国家身份建构之间复杂而冲突的相互作用在多米尼加蝙蝠眼中尤为突出。这些是20世纪初为甘蔗种植园和制糖厂工人的临时住所而建立的农村定居点，在多米尼加，这些工人主要是来自海地的移民。从那时起，蝙蝠眼就成了农村跨国流动的实验室。本研究以蝙蝠眼为微观世界，分析迁徙语境中语言与空间建构之间的相互作用。它侧重于空间语言实践（SLP），这是申请人提出的与语言相关的实践概念，允许人们生产和协商空间，以及通过语言将自己定位于（社会和地理）空间。在融合社会语言学和人文地理学方法的跨学科框架下，将解决以下研究问题：1。在多米尼加蝙蝠眼的居民中，哪一种SLP可以被识别？蝙蝠眼的居民是如何通过SLP产生社会分化的？3. enslp、空间建构与居民的能动性积累之间有何关系？该项目旨在综合社会语言学和地理学方法，为研究与跨国主义有关的语言和空间发展新的方法。SLP将通过半结构化访谈中收集的传记叙述来记录，使用时间线工具和社会和空间地图工具。此外，社会语言学问卷将被用于三角测量。访谈将在解释性范式下进行转录和分析，特别关注空间和社会参考管理，语言和语言变量的索引使用，以及（跨）国家空间的话语结构和表征。本研究将蝙蝠眼作为微观农村背景下跨国主义的实验室，将以创新的方式激发对移民、空间和语言的跨学科研究，同时给予移民自身的声音。

The island of Hispaniola is shared today by the nation states Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The hegemonic narrative of Dominican national identity constructs Haiti as an opposite on the basis of differences in language, skin color and religion. Since the late 19th century, the idea that defending the national language is tantamount to defending the national territory (and vice versa) has been a core element of metalinguistic discourses and linguistic policies. It also pervades current debates on migration, which are a source of fierce controversy in Dominican politics and society. The complex and conflictive interplay between language, space and the construction of national identity is particularly acute in the Dominican bateyes. Those are rural settlements created at the beginning of the 20th century for the temporary housing of cane plantation and sugar production plant workers, who, in the Dominican context, are mainly migrants from Haiti. Since then, the bateyes have become a laboratory for transnational mobilities in a rural setting. The present study takes the bateyes as microcosmos in order to analyze the interplay between language and the construction of space in migration contexts. It focuses on spatio-linguistic practices (SLP) a concept the applicants propose for practices related to language with allow people to produce and negotiate space, as well as to position themselves in (social and geographic) space through language. Under an interdisciplinary framework that integrates approaches from sociolinguistics and human geography, the following research questions will be addressed: 1. Which SLP can be identified among the inhabitants of the Dominican bateyes?2. How do the inhabitants of the bateyes produce social differentiation through SLP? 3. Which relations can be traced betweenSLP, constructions of spaces, and the inhabitants’ accumulation of agency? The project aims at integrating sociolinguistic and geographical approaches to develop novel methodologies for the study of language and space in relation to transnationalism. SLP will be documented through biographic narratives gathered in semi-structured interviews, using a time line tool and a social and spatial mapping tool. In addition, socio-linguistic questionnaires will be applied for triangulation. The interviews will be transcribed and analyzed under an interpretative paradigm, with a special focus on spatial and social reference management, indexical use of language and language variables, and discursive constructions and representations of the (trans)national space. Taking the bateyes as a laboratory of transnationalism in a rural setting on the micro-scale, this study will energize interdisciplinary research on migration, space and language in innovative ways, giving at the same timea voice to migrants themselves.