A fish tale about “fieldwork,” or toward multilingual interviewing in applied linguistics

IF 2.8 1区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1017/S026719052200006X

Jamie A. Thomas

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Abstract

Abstract Focused as we are on uncovering how language works, many linguists are less cognizant of how the communicative strategies we employ in our knowledge-gathering activities impact the language users, identities, and communities we connect with and learn from. This autoethnographic essay, offered as a critical, introspective and analytical account by a U.S.-based, African American woman researcher, unfolds across three scenes of embedded ethnographic research in Micronesia and Tanzania—ocean-facing nations separated by a distance of more than 12,000 kilometers. Each scene's storytelling and dialogue—among users of Pohnpeian and Nukuoro in Micronesia, and users of Korean and Swahili in Tanzania—depicts how competing ideas about the value of marginalized languages surface within the talk of the research interview through allusions to socioracial power and linguistic capital. The essay concludes with a discussion of how a shift toward multilingual, multi-person interviewing can expand and deepen the insights of language-focused research.

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一个关于“田野调查”或应用语言学中的多语言采访的鱼故事

摘要尽管我们专注于揭示语言是如何运作的，但许多语言学家却不太了解我们在知识收集活动中使用的交际策略如何影响语言使用者、身份和我们所联系和学习的社区。这篇自主民族志文章由一位美国非裔美国女性研究人员提供，作为一篇批判性、内省性和分析性的叙述，展现了密克罗尼西亚和坦桑尼亚的三个嵌入式民族志研究场景，这两个国家面向海洋，相距12000多公里。密克罗尼西亚的Pohnpeian和Nukuoro用户以及坦桑尼亚的韩语和斯瓦希里语用户之间的每一个场景的故事和对话，都描绘了关于边缘化语言价值的相互竞争的思想是如何在研究采访的谈话中通过暗指社会种族权力和语言资本而浮出水面的。文章最后讨论了向多语言、多人访谈的转变如何扩大和深化以语言为中心的研究。

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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Multiple-

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6.70

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5.40%

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期刊介绍： The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics publishes research on key topics in the broad field of applied linguistics. Each issue is thematic, providing a variety of perspectives on the topic through research summaries, critical overviews, position papers and empirical studies. Being responsive to the field, some issues are tied to the theme of that year''s annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Also, at regular intervals an issue will take the approach of covering applied linguistics as a field more broadly, including coverage of critical or controversial topics. ARAL provides cutting-edge and timely articles on a wide number of areas, including language learning and pedagogy, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, language assessment, and research design and methodology, to name just a few.