Doctoral Dissertation Research: Translating Hopi: Language Revitalization, Knowledge, and Property

博士论文研究：霍皮语翻译：语言复兴、知识和财产

• 批准号: 1658333
• 负责人: Justin Richland
• 金额: $ 1.59万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-15 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1658333&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Translating; Hopi

The research funded by this award will investigate the potential for language preservation efforts to serve the needs of both scientists, who may lead the language documentation and revitalization efforts, and native speakers, whose cultures may mandate that they have sole control over their linguistic patrimony. Language preservation is scientifically important because it provides the raw materials for learning about the full range of human capacities. Languages also provide important clues to the history of humanity on earth. But individual languages are the knowledge-property of particular peoples whose own needs and goals may be quite different. Therefore, findings from this research will be important to scientists, language speakers, and language revitalization specialists throughout the United States and beyond.The research will be undertaken by Hannah McElgunn, a doctoral student in the Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Chicago, who is supervised by Dr. Justin Richland. McElgunn will focus on an important indigenous American language, that of the Hopi people, as a case study through which to explore how different claims to know, own, and control a language may converge or conflict as scholars, tribal staff, and language teachers and learners are drawn together in language revitalization efforts. The Hopi language provides a particularly apt locus for this study because most tribal members think of their language as their exclusive knowledge-property. With this knowledge-property comes the privilege and responsibility to pass it down. Further, revitalization activities on the Hopi reservation include not only classroom teaching and learning of the language, but negotiations with archival institutions about how to manage the circulation and availability of past language documentation work. What kinds of knowledge, property, and ways of relating to language are produced through language revitalization initiatives as a result of this convergence? Can these be extended with concomitant modification into new environments, encompassing new people and textual objects, rather than closing off access? These crucial questions will be explored through twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and participant observation on the Hopi reservation and at off-reservation archives.

该奖项资助的研究将调查语言保护工作的潜力，以满足科学家的需求，他们可能领导语言文档和振兴工作，而母语人士则可以要求他们的文化要求他们唯一对自己的语言遗产进行控制。语言保存在科学上很重要，因为它提供了了解人类能力的原材料。语言还为地球人类历史提供了重要的线索。但是，单独的语言是特定民族的知识创业，他们的需求和目标可能会大不相同。因此，这项研究的发现对整个美国及其他地区的科学家，语言讲者和语言振兴专家至关重要。这项研究将由芝加哥大学人类学和语言学系的博士生汉娜·麦克埃尔古恩（Hannah McElgunn）进行，他在芝加哥大学（University of Chicago），他在贾斯汀·里奇兰（Justin Richland）监督的情况下进行。 McElgunn将重点关注一种重要的美国语言，即霍皮人的语言，作为案例研究，探讨了与学者，部落员工以及语言老师和学习者一起在语言复兴的工作中汇集的，以了解，拥有和控制语言的主张如何汇聚或冲突。霍皮语为这项研究提供了一个特别贴切的基因座，因为大多数部落成员都认为他们的语言是他们的独家知识范围。 有了这个知识 - 宗教的特权和责任。此外，关于霍皮人保留的振兴活动不仅包括教室教学和学习语言，而且还包括与档案机构进行有关如何管理过去语言文档工作的流通和可用性的谈判。由于这种融合，通过语言振兴计划产生了哪些知识，财产和与语言有关的方式？可以将这些扩展到新的环境中，包括新的人和文本对象，而不是关闭访问权限吗？这些关键问题将通过十二个月的民族志实地调查，访谈和参与者观察到霍皮保留和放置档案的观察。