Keeping the Accent? Voice, Alterity, and Memory in Oral History Interviews with Northern Ireland Migrants in England
Keeping the Accent? Voice, Alterity, and Memory in Oral History Interviews with Northern Ireland Migrants in England
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保持口音？
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10.1080/00940798.2024.2313163
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2024
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Roulston F
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本文讨论了一系列在动乱时期（1969-1998）从北爱尔兰移民到英国的访谈，探讨他们如何通过谈论声音和口音来叙述他们的迁徙和定居经历。根据两次采访的具体情况，我们认为口音是受访者描述移民记忆的一个场所，其中一个受访者认为她的口音使她被视为不自由和不文明的人，另一个受访者认为他可以在情境中积极地利用自己的口音，有时对他有利。此外，我们认为，英国现有的关于声音、口音和爱尔兰性的社会学工作为这类研究提供了有用的概念框架，但口述历史方法使得对口音的更细致的理解成为可能，无论是就其与个人生活轨迹的关系而言，还是就其相关的具体历史而言（在本例中，是爱尔兰和英国的战争历史）。
This article discusses a series of interviews with migrants from the North of Ireland to Britain during the Troubles (1969–1998) to explore how they narrate their experiences of movement and settlement by talking about voice and accent. Drawing specifically on two interviews—one with someone who felt her accent caused her to be seen as illiberal and uncivilized, and another who felt he could use his accent situationally and actively, sometimes to his advantage—we argue that accent is a site where interviewees can describe aspects of their memories of migration. Additionally, we argue that existing sociological work on voice, accent, and Irishness in Britain provides useful conceptual framing for this kind of research, but that an oral history methodology makes a more nuanced understanding of accent possible, both in terms of its relationship to individual life trajectories and in terms of the specific histories it relates to (in this instance, the history of the war in both Ireland and Britain).