Polish migrant community in Ireland: the use of Irish English slit-t

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI:10.2478/rela-2019-0009

Izabela Grabarczyk

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Abstract

Abstract In any migratory context individuals are faced with several challenges as a result of having to live in a different geographical location, function in a different cultural setting and use a different language. The migrants’ use of language plays a crucial role in mediation of their identity, especially in the domain of pronunciation (Kobialka 2016). When non-native users of language adapt their speech to resemble that of the host community, it may suggest their strong identification with the target community (Hammer and Dewaele 2015). This papers focuses on the pronunciation patterns among Polish adult migrants living in the west of Ireland. The aim of the study is to investigate the link between positive attitudes of the migrant community towards Ireland, Irish culture and community, their acculturation strategies and language identity, and the tendency to use one of the most characteristic features of Irish English – slit-t. The theoretical framework includes acculturation theory (Berry 2005), social identity theory (Tajfel and turner 1987) and language identity (Block 2007). The qualitative and quantitative analysis of data indicates a certain correlation between the use of Irish English slit-t and the participants’ strategies of acculturation, identity and attitudes to the host community.

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爱尔兰的波兰移民社区:爱尔兰英语的使用

在任何一个移民背景下，个体都面临着许多挑战，因为他们必须生活在不同的地理位置，在不同的文化环境中工作，使用不同的语言。移民的语言使用在其身份认同的调解中起着至关重要的作用，特别是在发音领域(Kobialka 2016)。当非母语语言使用者调整他们的语言，使其与东道国社区的语言相似时，这可能表明他们对目标社区有强烈的认同(Hammer and Dewaele 2015)。本文主要研究生活在爱尔兰西部的波兰成年移民的发音模式。本研究的目的是调查移民群体对爱尔兰、爱尔兰文化和爱尔兰社区的积极态度、他们的文化适应策略和语言认同，以及他们使用爱尔兰英语最具特色的一个特征- slit-t的倾向之间的联系。理论框架包括文化适应理论(Berry 2005)、社会认同理论(Tajfel and turner 1987)和语言认同理论(Block 2007)。数据的定性和定量分析表明，爱尔兰英语slit-t的使用与参与者的文化适应策略、认同和对东道国的态度之间存在一定的相关性。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.