Irish English and national identity in the linguistic landscape of Ireland’s 2018 abortion referendum

IF 1.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI:10.1515/ijsl-2023-0005
Louise Strange
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Abstract Ireland’s 2018 referendum on the Eighth Amendment, in which a majority of the Irish electorate voted to repeal the state’s quasi-total ban on abortion, saw important public discussions regarding Irish national identity in the twenty-first century. From a linguistic perspective, this begs the question of what role language played in the construction of national identity during the referendum campaign. This paper will examine Irish English features in the referendum campaign’s linguistic landscape and the extent to which they were used to index national identity. While there has been a significant amount of research on language ideologies connected to Irish, there has been little attention paid to Irish English and its relationship with national identity in the linguistic landscape literature. Drawing on a dataset of 1680 LL items collected from the 2018 referendum campaign (including campaign posters, placards, banners and stickers), this paper examines signs containing distinctive Irish English features, employing a qualitative, multimodal approach to the indexing of national identity. Specifically, it asks whether and under what conditions it is possible to claim that the use of Irish English features can be taken to index national identity.
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爱尔兰 2018 年堕胎公投语言景观中的爱尔兰英语与国家认同
摘要 爱尔兰 2018 年就第八修正案举行公投,大多数爱尔兰选民投票赞成废除国家对堕胎的准全面禁令,这次公投见证了关于 21 世纪爱尔兰国家认同的重要公开讨论。从语言学的角度来看,这就引出了一个问题:在公投活动中,语言在构建国家认同中扮演了什么角色。本文将研究爱尔兰英语在公投活动语言景观中的特征,以及它们在多大程度上被用来索引国家认同。虽然已有大量关于爱尔兰语相关语言意识形态的研究,但在语言景观文献中,对爱尔兰英语及其与国家认同关系的关注却很少。本文利用从 2018 年公投活动(包括竞选海报、标语牌、横幅和贴纸)中收集到的 1680 个 LL 项目数据集,采用定性、多模态的方法来编制国家认同索引,对包含爱尔兰英语特色的标志进行了研究。具体而言,本文询问是否以及在何种条件下可以宣称爱尔兰英语特征的使用可以被视为国家身份的索引。
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International Journal of the Sociology of Language
International Journal of the Sociology of Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) is dedicated to the development of the sociology of language as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other, contributing thereby to the growth of language-related knowledge, applications, values and sensitivities. Five of the journal''s annual issues are topically focused, all of the articles in such issues being commissioned in advance, after acceptance of proposals. One annual issue is reserved for single articles on the sociology of language. Selected issues throughout the year also feature a contribution on small languages and small language communities.
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