Postdoctoral Fellowship: SPRF: Social Dynamics and Hierarchy in Grammar and Language Use: Documenting Honorifics

博士后奖学金：SPRF：语法和语言使用中的社会动态和层次结构：记录敬语

• 批准号: 2313734
• 负责人: Martha Tsutsui
• 金额: $ 17万
• 依托单位: Tsutsui, Martha Satoko
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2313734&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Postdoctoral; Fellowship; SPRF; Social; Dynamics

This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) and Linguistics programs. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Prof. Eric W. Campbell at University of California, Santa Barbara, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career researcher investigating language change and honorific systems. Honorifics are culturally specific terms that encode rich social information about hierarchical relations between a speaker and an addressee or the way in which a speaker creatively wishes to express or influence such a relation. They are uncommon across the languages of the world, but due to their cultural importance and contextual embeddedness, they are a crucial part of understanding how human language can be shaped by specialized usage of their speakers. Studies about honorifics are still relatively few, but almost nothing is known about how honorific are used and change in processes of language shift. This project will provide a linguistic documentation and description of the rapidly shifting honorific system. The data from this project could also be used for future sociolinguistic studies regarding social structures and how these structures affect language use in communities. More widely, understanding language-specific strategies gives us a deeper understanding of underlying principles of social interaction across languages and cultures.This project is fieldwork and community-based, collecting spontaneous interactional data from speakers in context to undertake a pragmatic documentation in the community. This project will draw upon notions of linguistic repertoire and indexicality among others from sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. This study will contribute to theoretical notions of linguistic honorification and explore how stylistic linguistic shrinkage, results in language loss in public domains and contexts where speakers would have historically used honorifics. This project contributes to the broader documentation of endangered languages that are considered “fragmentary,” according to UNESCO. This project will have several broader impacts, the most notable of which will be the community’s engagement and empowerment in the documentation of their language, which can be transformational for the revitalization of the language. As a part of this project, younger community members will continue to be trained in language documentation methods, enabling intergenerational cooperation and knowledge sharing. Data will also be archived, which will ensure the long-lasting preservation of the data for future academic and community purposes.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.

该奖项是 NSF 社会、行为和经济科学博士后研究奖学金 (SPRF) 和语言学项目的一部分。 SPRF 项目的目标是为学术界、工业界或私营部门的科学职业培养有前途的早期职业博士级科学家。 SPRF 奖项涉及在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励 NSF 博士后研究员进行独立研究，旨在促进科学界各个领域的科学家的参与，包括来自科学界的科学家。其研究项目和活动中代表性不足的群体；博士后时期是实现这一目标的重要专业发展阶段，必须在埃里克·W·坎贝尔教授的赞助下解决推动各自学科领域发展的重要科学问题。在加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校，这项博士后奖学金支持一名早期职业研究人员研究语言变化和敬语系统，这些术语是文化上的特定术语，编码有关说话者和收件人之间的等级关系或说话者方式的丰富社会信息。创造性地表达它们在世界上的语言中并不常见，但由于它们的文化重要性和语境嵌入性，它们是理解人类语言如何通过说话者的专门使用而形成的研究的关键部分。敬语仍然相对较少，但对于敬语在语言转换过程中的使用和变化几乎一无所知。该项目将提供快速变化的敬语系统的语言文档和描述。该项目的数据也可用于。未来关于社会结构以及这些结构如何影响语言的社会语言学研究更广泛地讲，了解特定于语言的策略使我们能够更深入地了解跨语言和跨文化的社交互动的基本原则。该项目是实地调查和基于社区的，收集说话者在上下文中的自发交互数据，以进行该项目将利用社会语言学、语用学和话语分析中的语言库和索引性等概念，为语言尊荣的理论概念做出贡献，并探讨文体语言收缩如何导致语言丧失。联合国教科文组织表示，该项目将在公共领域和历史上使用敬语的环境中有助于更广泛地记录被认为是“碎片”的濒危语言。作为该项目的一部分，年轻的社区成员将继续接受语言记录方法方面的培训，从而实现代际合作和知识共享。 。数据还将被存档，这将确保数据的长期保存，以供未来的学术和社区用途。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。