Thiberge Gabriel, Burnett Heather
Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, F-75013 Paris, France.
Linguist Vanguard. 2024 Dec 17;10(1):479-492. doi: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0183. eCollection 2024 Dec.
We present a new paradigm investigating social meaning through strategic action. More precisely, we present an experimental technique (a textual role-playing game developed with the Ren'Py engine), which we view as an enrichment of the matched-guise technique (MGT). In this paradigm the explicit response scales of the MGT are substituted for strategic choices in a video game. We argue that studying social meaning experimentally through looking at its effects on participants' actions is more interactive than the classic paradigm. We compare the results from both the video game and a more classic version of the paradigm based on scales, conducted with the same linguistic materials, and we show that researchers who use only the MGT may be missing some crucial aspects of the social meanings of the linguistic phenomena they are studying. We also argue that a paradigm based on strategic action is better equipped to study the social, political, and economic outcomes for the users of those linguistic variants, and therefore to contribute to understanding phenomena like linguistic discrimination.
我们提出了一种通过战略行动来研究社会意义的新范式。更确切地说，我们提出了一种实验技术（一种使用Ren'Py引擎开发的文本角色扮演游戏），我们将其视为对匹配伪装技术（MGT）的一种拓展。在这个范式中，MGT的明确反应量表被视频游戏中的战略选择所取代。我们认为，通过观察其对参与者行动的影响来实验性地研究社会意义，比经典范式更具互动性。我们比较了基于相同语言材料进行的视频游戏和基于量表的更经典版本范式的结果，并且我们表明，仅使用MGT的研究人员可能会忽略他们正在研究的语言现象的社会意义的一些关键方面。我们还认为，基于战略行动的范式更有能力研究这些语言变体使用者的社会、政治和经济结果，因此有助于理解诸如语言歧视等现象。
