Doctoral Dissertation Research: Does language affect cultural identity among minority populations?

博士论文研究：语言会影响少数民族的文化认同吗？

• 批准号: 2241654
• 负责人: Thomas Hansen
• 金额: $ 1.68万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-15 至 2024-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241654&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Does; language

Globalization has contributed to both blurring and retrenchment of ethnic boundaries. On the one hand, acculturation can lead to one population absorbing another; on the other, populations may cleave to specific identity markers as ways of distinguishing themselves from others. How different markers operate to impact these processes remains poorly understood. This doctoral dissertation project investigates how minority populations sharing cultural, linguistic, and religious identities leverage different markers to claim a coherent group identity. The project trains a graduate student in scientific cultural anthropology and disseminates its findings broadly to academic and non-academic audiences. The project seeks to investigate how minority and majority populations interact and shape each other’s identities, cultural markers, and claims of political belonging. Using participant observation, surveys, interviews, and archival research, the investigators query the following: 1) how literary, religious, and ethnic associations understand and interpret linguistic and ethnic identities; and if and in what ways language and other ethnic markers are used by majority and minority populations to interpret political belonging. In doing so, the researchers help to resolve fundamental questions regarding interrelationships among populations and the markers they use to mediate those relationships.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

全球化导致种族界限的模糊和缩小，一方面，文化适应会导致一个群体吸收另一个群体；另一方面，群体可能会通过特定的身份标记来区分自己和其他群体。这篇博士论文探讨了共享文化、语言和宗教身份的少数群体如何利用不同的标记来主张一致的群体身份。该项目对一名研究生进行科学文化人类学培训，并广泛传播其研究结果。该项目旨在通过观察、调查、访谈和档案研究来调查少数群体和多数群体如何互动并塑造彼此的身份、文化标记和政治参与者归属感。以下是：1）文学、宗教和民族协会如何理解和解释语言和民族身份；以及多数群体和少数群体是否以及以何种方式使用语言和其他民族标志来解释政治归属。帮助解决有关人口之间相互关系的基本问题该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。