@inproceedings{stewart-etal-2018-si,
    title = "Si {O} No, Que Penses? {C}atalonian Independence and Linguistic Identity on Social Media",
    author = "Stewart, Ian  and
      Pinter, Yuval  and
      Eisenstein, Jacob",
    editor = "Walker, Marilyn  and
      Ji, Heng  and
      Stent, Amanda",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North {A}merican Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)",
    month = jun,
    year = "2018",
    address = "New Orleans, Louisiana",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/N18-2022/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/N18-2022",
    pages = "136--141",
    abstract = "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."
}