Making up (for) lost heritage: folk dancing, language and identity in the UK's Greek Cypriot diaspora

弥补失去的遗产：英国希族塞人侨民的民间舞蹈、语言和身份

基本信息

批准号：
2597286
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University of Westminster
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2597286
关键词：
Making up lost heritage folk

项目摘要

In my doctoral research, I will investigate the connection between folk dancing and ethnolinguistic identity in diasporic communities, exploring how engaging with the intangible cultural heritage of dance may be found to compensate for the gradual loss of heritage languages as observed in diasporas. My research will focus on the UK's Greek Cypriot community. Though the goal of Greek Cypriot families is for their children to learn Greek as a heritage language, including the Cypriot Greek dialect, in order to enable communication with older members of the families and preserve cultural and ethnic identity, the difficulties younger members of the community face in learning the two varieties drives them to explore and construct their identity through other forms of cultural expression. An example of this is folk dancing, which is taught in several organised groups. I will explore how folk dancing is utilised as a strategy to overcome the difficulty of conquering Greek as the community's heritage language so that participants can negotiate their diasporic belonging and feel that they are members of their 'imagined community'. I will also explore how the traditions related to folk dancing have evolved within the Greek Cypriot diaspora in London, ideologies around and attitudes towards dances, and how they pertain to the identity of the Greek Cypriot community living in London.

在我的博士研究中，我将调查流离失所社区中民间舞蹈与民族语言身份之间的联系，探索如何发现与无形文化遗产的互动，以弥补侨民观察到的遗产语言的逐渐丧失。我的研究将重点放在英国的希腊塞浦路斯社区。尽管希腊塞浦路斯家庭的目标是让他们的孩子学习希腊语作为一种遗产语言，包括塞浦路斯·希腊方言，以便能够与年龄较大的家庭成员进行交流，并保留文化和民族的身份，但社区中的年轻成员在学习两个品种的困难使他们通过其他文化表达探索和建立了他们的身份。一个例子是民间舞蹈，在几个有组织的团体中教授。我将探讨如何将民间舞蹈用作克服征服希腊语作为社区遗产语言的困难的策略，以便参与者可以谈判他们的散发性繁殖，并认为他们是“想象中社区”的成员。我还将探讨与民间舞蹈有关的传统如何在伦敦的希腊塞人侨民中演变，意识形态和对舞蹈的态度以及它们与居住在伦敦的希腊塞人社区的身份有关。