Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community

该计划旨在开发一种新的现代语言（ML）研究范式，能够重新定义语言与社区之间的关系，以造福于更加开放的世界。它解决了我们所说的语言是否以及如何定义我们与之结盟的社区的问题，以及语言社区的边界如何变得更加多孔。它确定了3种交叉的社区结构，赋予语言不同的角色，并吸引了不同的方法：多语言、跨国和翻译语言。在每一个案例中，它都调查了语言和国家之间的联系和脱节，以及自上而下的制度和基层社区建设网络维度的动态。在所有三种配置中解决这些问题，每种配置都对应于一个研究链，它旨在重塑机器学习议程，重塑相邻的学科优先级，为政策制定者提供见解，并为公民大学投资新的目的。三个核心机构将各自领导一个研究领域：曼彻斯特大学（多语言）、达勒姆大学（跨国）和伦敦大学高级研究学院（SAS）（翻译语言）。我们借鉴了其他9所高等教育机构的优秀经验。我们的主要语言代表了世界上一些最大的语言群体。他们也有能力跨越各个分支：阿拉伯语、汉语、德语、俄语和西班牙语同时是社区语言，是连接跨国网络的粘合剂，也是语言社区接受翻译价值观的媒介。8个国际城市的相关交叉模式为我们的研究提供了节点。我们将把利益攸关方与相关部门联系起来：市议会与使用多种语言；外交政策智库和文化外交机构的跨国主义；翻译网络和媒体，艺术和文化组织的翻译主义。在一个新的合作领域，我们将促进机器学习不同分支之间的对话，与联合的人文学科和利益相关者。调和他们对一系列重点问题的回答，我们的目标是为语言-社区关系的理论化建立一个开创性的范式。教学法倡议的重点是动员少数民族社区的语言资源，促进社会凝聚力。我们将开展培训活动，整合我们项目的多学科方法和我们的主要语言，通过博士联盟针对pgr。RAs将受益于通过项目合作伙伴安置和数字人文技能组合的职业准备的阶段性变化。产出包括一个捕捉城市语言景观的数据库、重新构思语言-社区关系的专著和编辑卷、一部电影、未来机器学习研究的概览，以及总结跨链对话和单链研究成果的出版物。我们正在委托制作一部歌剧，其灵感来自通过音乐超越语言差异的愿望。与项目合作伙伴共同制作的产出包括为市议会和艺术机构编写的报告；跨国语言社区政治简报；为跨语言社区的翻译网络和中小企业提供建议包。我们将通过围绕一套连贯的主题和方法统一我们的领域，制作一份关于振兴ML课程的报告。我们的计划将规模与重点议程相结合，将最大限度地发挥影响力和可持续性。它的遗产将是(i)改变ML在人文学科中的形象（ii）启动社区关系和跨文化理解的长期改善；（iii）在文化及创意艺术界提高公众对语言潜能的认识；（iv）开发ML课程，克服语言/内容二分法，强调基于社区的学习。它们将通过语言和社区跨学科研究中心获得。

This programme aims to develop a new Modern Languages (ML) research paradigm capable of re-conceptualizing the relationship between language and community for the benefit of a more open world. It addresses questions of whether and how the languages we speak define the communities we align with, and how language community boundaries may be made more porous. It identifies 3 intersecting community configurations attributing different roles to language, and attracting distinct methodologies: the multilingual, the transnational and the translingual. In each case, it investigates ties and disjunctions between language and nationhood, and the dynamic of top-down institutional and grassroots networking dimensions of community-building. Tackling these issues across all 3 configurations, each corresponding to a research strand, it aims to recast ML agendas, reshape adjacent disciplinary priorities, offer insights to policy-makers, and invest the civic university with new purpose.Three core institutions will each lead a research strand: Manchester (multilingual), Durham (transnational), and the School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London (translingual). We draw on pockets of excellence at 9 other HEIs. Our main languages represent some of the world's largest language communities. They also have the capacity to traverse the strands: Arabic, Chinese, German, Russian, and Spanish are at once community languages, the glue binding transnational networks, and a medium through which language communities embrace translingual values. Related cross-cutting patterns characterize 8 international cities which provide nodal points for our research. We will link stakeholders to relevant strands: city councils to multilingualism; foreign policy think tanks and cultural diplomacy institutions to transnationalism; translation networks and media, arts and cultural organizations to translingualism. Within a new arena of collaboration, we will facilitate dialogue between ML's different branches, with allied humanities disciplines and with stakeholders. Reconciling their responses to a focused set of questions, we aim to forge a groundbreaking paradigm for theorizing the language-community relationship. Pedagogy initiatives centre on mobilizing the linguistic resources of minority communities for societal cohesion purposes. We will generate training activities integrating our programme's multiple disciplinary approaches and our main languages, targeting PGRs via doctoral consortia. RAs will benefit from a step change in career preparation via project partner placements and Digital Humanities skill sets.Outputs include a database capturing urban linguistic landscapes, monographs and edited volumes re-conceiving the language-community relationship, a film, a prospectus for future ML research, and publications summarizing the outcomes of cross-strand dialogues and single-strand research. We are commissioning an opera inspired by the aspiration to transcend language difference through music. Outputs co-produced with project partners include reports for city councils and arts organisations; briefings on the politics of transnational language communities; advice packages for translator networks and SMEs operating across language communities. We will produce a report on revitalizing ML curricula by unifying our field around a coherent set of themes and approaches. Combining significant scale with a focused agenda, our programme will maximize impact and sustainability. Its legacies will be to (i) transform ML's profile within the humanities (ii) initiate long-term improvements to community relations and intercultural understanding; (iii) raise public consciousness about language's potential within cultural and creative arts communities; and (iv) develop ML curricula which overcome the language/content dichotomy and emphasize community-based learning. They will be secured via a Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Community.