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标题：Aye or naw, whit dae ye hink?Scottish independence and linguistic identity on social media
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作者：Philippa Shoemark ; Debnil Sur ; Luke Shrimpton 等
期刊名称：Conference on European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)
出版年度：2017
卷号：2017
页码：1239-1248
语种：English
出版社：ACL Anthology
摘要：Political surveys have indicated a relationship between a sense of Scottish identity and voting decisions in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. Identity is often reflected in language use, suggesting the intuitive hypothesis that individuals who support Scottish independence are more likely to use distinctively Scottish words than those who oppose it. In the first large-scale study of sociolinguistic variation on social media in the UK, we identify distinctively Scottish terms in a data-driven way, and find that these terms are indeed used at a higher rate by users of pro-independence hashtags than by users of anti-independence hashtags. However, we also find that in general people are less likely to use distinctively Scottish words in tweets with referendum-related hashtags than in their general Twitter activity. We attribute this difference to style shifting relative to audience, aligning with previous work showing that Twitter users tend to use fewer local variants when addressing a broader audience.