Doctoral Dissertation Research: Place, Persona, and Linguistic Style among College Student Border Commuters

博士论文研究：大学生边境通勤者的地点、角色和语言风格

• 批准号: 2336567
• 负责人: Robert Podesva
• 金额: $ 1.85万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2336567&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Place; Persona

Among the daily commuters who regularly cross national borders are students to attend college. As they navigate international borders and higher education, bilingualism is a critical aspect of their everyday life. These border-crossing students are not a homogenous group; they come from a range of backgrounds and have varying perspectives. They may have different answers to questions such as, "Which location do you prefer?" or "Do you feel connected to your campus?" In turn, this diversity can map on to differences in language use across languages. Sociolinguistic research has studied how speakers use linguistic variation to construct styles that reflect socially meaningful categories within a local community. People can vary how they speak to emphasize a quality about themselves or an aspect of their identity. For example, they may use certain linguistic features to sound more "feminine," or "cool," or from a certain region. Since much of this work has focused on monolingual communities, an ongoing research question is how bilingual speakers draw on resources from multiple languages to construct styles that represent different social identities. Thus, the present study analyzes the varied bilingual styles that emerge among college students. By documenting the experiences of bilingual transborder students, this work not only advances research in sociolinguistics and bilingualism but also represents a valuable contribution to fields in related areas, such as education and border studies. This doctoral dissertation aims to study how college border commuters vary in their linguistic practices and how higher education and regional identity shape their language use. To address these questions, this dissertation employs sociolinguistic interviews and ethnographic fieldwork at multiple postsecondary institutions representing different types of college experiences. The study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze the data and compare results across institutions in order to advance the study of variation and social meaning in bilingual populations.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.

经常跨越国家边界的日常通勤者中，有学生上大学。当他们在国际边界和高等教育中浏览时，双语主义是他们日常生活的关键方面。这些边界跨的学生不是同质的群体。它们来自一系列背景，具有不同的观点。他们可能对问题有不同的答案，例如“您更喜欢哪个位置？”或“您感到与校园有联系吗？”反过来，这种多样性可以映射到跨语言的语言使用差异。社会语言学研究研究了说话者如何使用语言差异来构建反映当地社区中社会有意义类别的样式。人们可以改变他们的讲话方式，强调自己的身份或身份方面的质量。例如，他们可能会使用某些语言特征听起来更“女性化”或“酷”或来自某个区域。由于这项工作的大部分都集中在单语社区上，因此一个正在进行的研究问题是双语演讲者如何利用多种语言的资源来构建代表不同社会身份的样式。因此，本研究分析了大学生中不同的双语风格。通过记录双语跨界学生的经验，这项工作不仅可以推进社会语言学和双语主义的研究，而且还代表了对相关领域（例如教育和边境研究）的宝贵贡献。该博士学位论文旨在研究大学边界通勤者的语言实践以及高等教育和区域身份如何影响他们的语言使用。为了解决这些问题，本论文在代表不同类型的大学经历的多个专上机构中采用了社会语言访谈和人种志现场工作。该研究结合了定性和定量方法的结合来分析数据并比较跨机构的结果，以提高双语人群中对变异和社会意义的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响来通过评估来通过评估来获得支持。