‘New speakers’ on Irish language community radio: new understandings of linguistic variation on Raidió na Life

Walsh, John, & Day, Rosemary. (2021). ‘New speakers’ on Irish language community radio: new understandings of linguistic variation on Raidió na Life. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, doi:10.1080/01434632.2021.1955893

Abstract

This article examines the use of Irish on the community radio station Raidió na Life which has broadcast to Dublin since 1993. By admitting and indirectly valorising a variety of linguistic styles, Raidió na Life can be seen to function as a space for new speakers of Irish, fluent and regular users who were not raised with Irish as their language of primary socialisation in childhood. Based on interviews and focus group research, the article analyses the influence of Raidió na Life on the use of Irish among volunteer broadcasters. Furthermore, it discusses their ideologies in relation to linguistic variation and to how the station uses Irish and other languages

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Routledge

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