Si O No, Que Penses? Catalonian Independence and Linguistic Identity on Social Media
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.- Anthology ID:
- N18-2022
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- New Orleans, Louisiana
- Editors:
- Marilyn Walker, Heng Ji, Amanda Stent
- Venue:
- NAACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 136–141
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/N18-2022
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/N18-2022
- Cite (ACL):
- Ian Stewart, Yuval Pinter, and Jacob Eisenstein. 2018. Si O No, Que Penses? Catalonian Independence and Linguistic Identity on Social Media. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers), pages 136–141, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Si O No, Que Penses? Catalonian Independence and Linguistic Identity on Social Media (Stewart et al., NAACL 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/teach-a-man-to-fish/N18-2022.pdf