The Gettysburg College Dialect Project: Regional Linguistic Variation among African American and European American English Speakers in the Lower Susquehanna Valley

葛底斯堡学院方言项目：下萨斯奎哈纳河谷非裔美国人和欧洲裔美国人英语使用者的区域语言变异

• 批准号: 0418086
• 负责人: Jennifer Bloomquist
• 金额: $ 3.74万
• 依托单位: Gettysburg College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-15 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0418086&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Gettysburg; College; Dialect; Project; Regional

The Gettysburg College Dialect Project: Regional linguistic variation among African American and European American English speakers in the Lower Susquehanna Valley" With National Science Foundation support, Dr. Jennifer Bloomquist will investigate the linguistic patterns that characterize the regional dialect spoken in Pennsylvania's Lower Susquehanna Valley (LSV). Although the rural, European-American Pennsylvania German speaking population of the LSV region has been studied extensively by linguists, Pennsylvania Germanisms do not account for the patterns found in the language of LSV African-American speakers, nor do they fully contribute to the types of regionalisms that have developed in the area's urban centers. In order to address this lacuna, the project team will conduct one-on-one sociolinguistic interviews with lifelong residents of the Lower Susquehanna Valley in general, and with urban and African- American speakers in particular. In addition, a project website that includes an interactive survey will be developed so that a wide variety of participants will be able to contribute to the data set that will define the dialect and its boundaries.The Gettysburg Dialect project contributes to the field of dialectology in that it focuses on an area of dialect study that has been long neglected in terms of race and geographical location (rural vs. urban). Not only is the project valuable to dialectology, but the research is also important to the field of linguistics in general because it investigates linguistic patterns among northern African-American speakers who speak both the regional variety and African-American English in varying degrees, depending on sociohistorical and sociocultural factors such as community cohesion or geographic isolation. Since the vast majority of work done previously on the development of African-American English has focused on urban and southern speakers, this project will contribute a wealth of information to the ways in which African-American Englishes have evolved in isolated communities in the midland dialect region. It is this aspect of the research that will complement projects currently underway on African-American English in other regions of the United States. Because the research will also contribute to the construction of a dialect survey website, there will be an online educational resource for anyone interested in learning about the Lower Susquehanna Valley, its residents, or the dialect(s) that they speak.

葛底斯堡学院的方言项目：下萨斯奎哈纳河谷中的非洲裔美国和欧美英语说话者之间的区域语言差异“在国家科学基金会的支持下，詹妮弗·布鲁姆奎斯特（Jennifer Bloomquist）博士将调查宾夕法尼亚州的萨斯奎汉纳·潘（Susquehanna Valley）（Lsania sermise ofernia seremia seremia seremia somerical lasermerical somecirical somectamemerical somic the Recore the Susquehanna pentement the Landingistic模式）。语言学家对地区进行了广泛的研究，宾夕法尼亚州的德国主义并没有说明LSV非裔美国人说话者的语言，也没有完全贡献在该地区的城市中心，以解决该地区的社会居民及其居民的居民，并以此为单位的居民。尤其是城市和非裔美国人的演讲者。 该项目不仅对方言学很有价值，而且该研究对整个语言学领域也很重要，因为它调查了北非美国人的讲话模式，他们在不同程度上说区域性品种和非裔美国人英语在不同程度上，取决于社会刻度和社会文化因素，例如社区互补或地理位置隔离。 由于以前在非裔美国人的发展方面所做的绝大多数工作都集中在城市和南方演讲者上，因此该项目将为非裔美国人英国英国人在米德兰方言地区的孤立社区演变而成的方式提供了很多信息。正是研究的这一方面将补充目前在美国其他地区的非裔美国人英语的项目。由于该研究还将为方言调查网站的构建做出贡献，因此将为任何有兴趣了解萨斯奎哈纳山谷，其居民或他们所说的方言的人提供在线教育资源。