TY - GEN
T1 - Catalonian independence and linguistic identity on social media
AU - Stewart, Ian
AU - Pinter, Yuval
AU - Eisenstein, Jacob
N1 - Funding Information: We thank Sandeep Soni, Umashanthi Pavalanathan, our anonymous reviewers, and members of Georgia Tech’s Computational Social Science class for their feedback. This research was supported by NSF award IIS-1452443 and NIH award R01-GM112697-03. Publisher Copyright: © 2018 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Political identity is often manifested in language variation, but the relationship between the two is still relatively unexplored from a quantitative perspective. This study examines the use of Catalan, a language local to the semi-autonomous region of Catalonia in Spain, on Twitter in discourse related to the 2017 independence referendum. We corroborate prior findings that pro-independence tweets are more likely to include the local language than anti-independence tweets. We also find that Catalan is used more often in referendum-related discourse than in other contexts, contrary to prior findings on language variation. This suggests a strong role for the Catalan language in the expression of Catalonian political identity.
AB - Political identity is often manifested in language variation, but the relationship between the two is still relatively unexplored from a quantitative perspective. This study examines the use of Catalan, a language local to the semi-autonomous region of Catalonia in Spain, on Twitter in discourse related to the 2017 independence referendum. We corroborate prior findings that pro-independence tweets are more likely to include the local language than anti-independence tweets. We also find that Catalan is used more often in referendum-related discourse than in other contexts, contrary to prior findings on language variation. This suggests a strong role for the Catalan language in the expression of Catalonian political identity.
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M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - NAACL HLT 2018 - 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the Conference
SP - 136
EP - 141
BT - Short Papers
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2018
Y2 - 1 June 2018 through 6 June 2018
ER -