Vital Voices: Linking Language and Wellbeing at the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation

重要声音：国际语言文献与保护会议上将语言与福祉联系起来

• 批准号: 1614134
• 负责人: Andrea Berez-Kroeker
• 金额: $ 6万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-01 至 2018-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1614134&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Vital; Voices; Linking; Language; Wellbeing

"Wellbeing" is a state of the body and mind that encompasses the presence of positive moods and emotions, life satisfaction, fulfillment and positive functioning, and the absence of negative emotions like anxiety. Public health experts, policymakers and economists are coming to recognize the implications of wellbeing for society as a whole, as well as individuals, thanks to a growing set of results from cross-sectional, longitudinal and experimental studies, including those noted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Increasingly, researchers in several fields have noted a positive correlation between language maintenance and wellbeing in endangered language communities. While the nature of the connection between language and wellbeing remains the subject of much debate, the existence of a connection is not entirely unexpected, given the range of outcomes associated with wellbeing. In addition, languages encode knowledge systems, so language loss represents not only the loss of a communicative system, but also the loss of traditional knowledge systems. Importantly, traditional knowledge systems encode cultural practices related to well-being. Understanding the connections between language and wellbeing will potentially have implications for public health and policy and beyond, but also for language researchers, since traditional knowledge systems are among the most threatened domains of endangered language. Knowledge of esoteric domains such botanical classification and traditional medicines is forgotten well before basic vocabulary and language structure. Hence, these areas of traditional knowledge are precisely the areas which need to be prioritized by language documenters. This project will bring together leading scholars from across the world to explore connections between language and wellbeing as part of the 2017 International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC). Since its inception in 2009, ICLDC has become the flagship venue driving scholarship in the documentation, maintenance and revitalization of endangered and other languages. Participants include undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty from linguistics, anthropology, biology and other academic disciplines. ICLDC has also included a large number of citizen scientists from historically underrepresented groups in the sciences, such as Native Americans, Native Alaskans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders, offering opportunities for broadening participation in the language sciences as one of the broader impacts of this conference. ICLDC offers its highly diverse audience opportunities for informal science education and training that includes new methodologies and best practices in cutting edge language documentation and that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. In addition, this conference serves as one of the foremost venues for the dissemination of research findings in language documentation and conservation and related disciplines.

“健康”是身体和心灵的状态，涵盖了积极的情绪和情感，生活满意度，成就感和积极功能，以及不存在诸如焦虑之类的负面情绪。 公共卫生专家，政策制定者和经济学家即将认识到幸福对整个社会以及个人的影响，这要归功于越来越多的横断面，纵向和实验性研究的结果，包括疾病控制和预防中心所指出的研究。越来越多的研究人员注意到，濒危语言社区的语言维护与福祉之间存在正相关。尽管语言与福祉之间的联系的性质仍然是许多辩论的主题，但考虑到与福祉相关的结果范围，连接的存在并不是完全意外的。此外，语言编码知识系统，因此语言丧失不仅代表了交流系统的丧失，还代表了传统知识系统的丧失。重要的是，传统知识系统编码与幸福感相关的文化实践。 了解语言与福祉之间的联系可能会对公共卫生和政策及其他人产生影响，也可能对语言研究人员产生影响，因为传统知识系统是濒危语言中最受威胁的领域之一。在基本词汇和语言结构之前，人们对这种植物分类和传统药物的深奥领域的了解被遗忘了。因此，这些传统知识领域正是语言记录师需要优先考虑的领域。 该项目将汇集来自世界各地的领先学者，以探索语言与福祉之间的联系，这是2017年国际语言文档和保护国际会议（ICLDC）的一部分。自2009年成立以来，ICLDC已成为濒危和其他语言的文档，维护和振兴的旗舰场地奖学金。 参加者包括本科生，研究生和语言学，人类学，生物学和其他学科的教师。 ICLDC还包括来自历史上代表性不足群体的大量公民科学家，例如美洲原住民，阿拉斯加人，阿拉斯加人，夏威夷原住民和其他太平洋岛民，为扩大语言科学的参与提供了机会，这是本次会议的广泛影响之一。 ICLDC为非正式的科学教育和培训提供了高度多样化的受众机会，其中包括新的方法论和最佳实践在尖端语言文档中，并跨越了传统的学科界限。 此外，这次会议是传播语言文档和保护和相关学科中研究结果的最重要的场所之一。