Gaither Sarah E, Cohen-Goldberg Ariel M, Gidney Calvin L, Maddox Keith B, Gidney Calvin L, Gidney Calvin L
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA ; Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA.
Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA USA.
Front Psychol. 2015 Apr 20;6:457. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00457. eCollection 2015.
Research has shown that priming one's racial identity can alter a biracial individuals' social behavior, but can such priming also influence their speech? Language is often used as a marker of one's social group membership and studies have shown that social context can affect the style of language that a person chooses to use, but this work has yet to be extended to the biracial population. Audio clips were extracted from a previous study involving biracial Black/White participants who had either their Black or White racial identity primed. Condition-blind coders rated Black-primed biracial participants as sounding significantly more Black and White-primed biracial participants as sounding significantly more White, both when listening to whole (Study 1a) and thin-sliced (Study 1b) clips. Further linguistic analyses (Studies 2a-c) were inconclusive regarding the features that differed between the two groups. Future directions regarding the need to investigate the intersections between social identity priming and language behavior with a biracial lens are discussed.
研究表明，启动一个人的种族身份可以改变混血个体的社会行为，但这种启动是否也会影响他们的言语呢？语言常被用作一个人社会群体成员身份的标志，研究表明社会环境会影响一个人选择使用的语言风格，但这项工作尚未扩展到混血人群。音频片段取自之前一项涉及黑人/白人混血参与者的研究，这些参与者的黑人或白人人种身份被启动。无论在听完整的（研究1a）还是精简的（研究1b）音频片段时，不了解条件的编码员都认为，启动黑人身份的混血参与者听起来明显更像黑人，而启动白人身份的混血参与者听起来明显更像白人。关于两组之间存在差异的特征，进一步的语言学分析（研究2a - c）没有得出明确结论。本文讨论了未来的研究方向，即需要从混血视角研究社会身份启动与语言行为之间的交叉点。
