Learning Irish amid controversy: how the Irish Language Act debate has impacted learners of Irish in Belfast
Learning Irish amid controversy: how the Irish Language Act debate has impacted learners of Irish in Belfast
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在争议中学习爱尔兰语：《爱尔兰语言法》辩论如何影响贝尔法斯特的爱尔兰语学习者
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2020
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Deirdre A. Dunlevy
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作者：
Deirdre A. Dunlevy
摘要从2017年1月到2020年1月，北方爱尔兰的斯托蒙特议会被暂停，爱尔兰语被认为是恢复政府的主要绊脚石。关于北方爱尔兰是否有必要制定《爱尔兰语言法》的持续辩论，与社会上围绕民族认同的更普遍的分歧有关，因此，它分裂了政党以及他们所支持的民族主义和统一主义社区。通过民族志访谈的分析，在不同的语言学习中心在贝尔法斯特，我探讨如何围绕立法的语言影响的参与学习者的语言在城市的辩论。通过考虑媒体在贝尔法斯特与爱尔兰语言的采访参与者的参与中所扮演的角色，我的目标是研究政策延迟和政治话语如何影响那些从事语言。本文旨在探讨在政治危机时期，人们对贝尔法斯特爱尔兰语的态度发生了变化，这对那些使用这种语言的人意味着什么。
ABSTRACT From January 2017 until January 2020, the Stormont assembly in Northern Ireland was suspended, with the Irish language being cited as the main stumbling block to the restoration of government. The continued debate around the necessity of an Irish Language Act (ILA) for Northern Ireland is bound up with more general divisions in society surrounding national identity, and as such, it divided political parties and the nationalist and unionist communities from which they draw their support. Through the analysis of ethnographic interviews conducted in various language learning centres across Belfast, I explore how this debate around legislating for the language impacted on the engagement of learners with the language in the city. By considering the role played by the media in the engagement of interview participants with the Irish language in Belfast, I aim to examine how the policy delay and political discourse affects those engaging with the language. This paper aims to address changing attitudes to the Irish language in Belfast in a period of political crisis, and what it means for those who use the language.