{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/si-o-no-que-penses-catalonian-independence-1","title":"Sí o no, què penses? Catalonian Independence and Linguistic Identity on Social Media","arxiv_id":"1804.05088","date":"2018-04-13","proceeding":null,"authors":["Ian Stewart","Yuval Pinter","Jacob Eisenstein"],"abstract":"Political identity is often manifested in language variation, but the\nrelationship between the two is still relatively unexplored from a quantitative\nperspective. This study examines the use of Catalan, a language local to the\nsemi-autonomous region of Catalonia in Spain, on Twitter in discourse related\nto the 2017 independence referendum. We corroborate prior findings that\npro-independence tweets are more likely to include the local language than\nanti-independence tweets. We also find that Catalan is used more often in\nreferendum-related discourse than in other contexts, contrary to prior findings\non language variation. This suggests a strong role for the Catalan language in\nthe expression of Catalonian political identity.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1804.05088v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.05088v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"si-o-no-que-penses-catalonian-independence-1","repo_url":"https://github.com/ianbstewart/catalan","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}