Mairead Moriarty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mairead Moriarty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mairead |
| FAMILY NAME | Moriarty |
| SIGNATURE | MORIARTY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8986-6756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to SL research
Embodied vulnerability: Semiotic landscapes of suicide
A recent move in semiotic landscape studies is to examine how those placed on the margins of society counteract such regulation by using the semiotic landscape as a platform to enact regimes of voice and agency where scholarly attention has begun to study the spatial representations of vulnerability and how individuals othered by these processes fight back (see for example Milani & Levron, 2019 ; Moriarty, 2019 ). Drawing on Butler’s (2004) work …
Rhizomatic assemblage of the seascape in the Anthropocene: Mara as a multisensory semiotic landscape approach
In the face of ever accelerating climate change, the ability to resist such change and work with nature to secure a more environmentally just future poses a striking but necessary challenge. From this perspective, the present article asks: Can a posthuman reimagining of the human, non-human, and more-than-human nexus in the context of a semiotic landscape analysis of the seas (henceforth, seascape) create new possibilities beyond the Anthropocene…
Cultural Identity in Bicultural Young Adults in Ireland: A Social Representation Theory Approach
This research investigates the nature by which first- and second-generation Irish young adults of (1) African descent, (2) Asian descent, and (3) Eastern European descent explore their cultural identity(ies) through communicating and interpreting social representations relating to their ethnic and national cultures. Using Social Representation Theory (SRT) and, more widely, Proculturation Theory as the theoretical underpinning, we examine how gro…
Irish Identities: Sociolinguistic Perspectives
Regimes of voice and visibility in the refugeescape: A semiotic landscape approach
This paper proposes refugeescapes as a framework for expanding the focus of semiotic landscape studies by centering migration, inequality, and social exclusion. In so doing, the article adds to the work of Mpendukana and Stroud (2018) and Kerfoot and Hytlenstam (2017) in uncovering how place is structured by issues of affect, voice, and visibility. In my paper, I turn to a case study of the spatializing practices of refugees and asylum seekers in…
Multilingual creativity and play in the semiotic landscape: An introduction
The papers presented in this special issue contribute to the growing interest in creativity in the study of multilingualism (cf. Deumert, 2014, 2017; Jones, 2012, 2016; Maybin & Swann, 2007). The r
Culture and class in a glass: Scaling the semiofoodscape
Developing resources for translanguaging in minority language contexts: A case study of rapping in an Irish primary school
The aim of the present study is to examine the extent to which pedagogic resources based on the principles of translanguaging provide an alternative approach to the teaching of language. The Irish language situation provides a good context in which to investigate the potential for transglossic resources to function as effective teaching resources because it is a situation where having access to the minority language via the education system has n…
Indexing Authenticity: The Linguistic Landscape of an Irish Tourist Town
This article examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of Dingle, the centre for a peripheral minority language community on the Southwestern seaboard of Ireland. Dingle is a popular touristic space located within the boundary of the Gaeltacht and for this reason offers a unique setting for the examination of issues prevalent in the sociolinguistics of globalization (cf. Blommaert 2010; Coupland 2010a) including authenticity and commodification. In …
Contesting language ideologies in the linguistic landscape of an Irish tourist town
This article explores the linguistic landscape (LL) of a tourist town named Dingle located in the Southwest of Ireland. Building on recent theorizing in LL studies, where a discourse-analytical approach to LL data is promoted, the study uncovers a number of contesting language ideologies that circulate in the LL of Dingle. The contest involves two key actors, namely the State and the local community, who promote a number of discourse frames that …
Languages in motion: Multilingualism and mobility in the linguistic landscape
This special issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism is concerned with the interplay of multilingualism and mobility in the linguistic landscape (henceforth LL). The various contributors to this special issue view LL studies as offering a way of investigating multilingualism and mobil- ity. The LL is understood herein as an expression of multilingualism in society, a site where lan- guage, together with other semiotic resources, is inv…
There's no excuse. Speak Catalan!’– the marketing of language acquisition to mobility students
This article explores the ways in which a website designed specifically for tertiary level mobility students, Intercat ( http://www.intercat.cat/en/index.jsp ), markets acquisition of the Catalan language to its target audience. We argue that the site displays tensions between different types of language ideology, in particular between the commodification of language and an ideology of nation and nationhood. These tensions are of sociolinguistic …
Promoting Tourism in Linguistic Minority Spaces on the Web: A Study of Linguistic and Visual Resources on Tourist Websites for Dingle, Ireland and Inari, Finland
This article explores the web-based promotion of tourism in two linguistic minority spaces, namely Dingle in the Corca Dhuibne Gaeltacht (designated Irish-speaking region) in Ireland and Inari in Finnish Sámiland. Tourism websites not only mediate the contact between tourist and tourism producer, but may also become part of the touristic experience both before and after the visit. Various combinations of resources are used on websites in order to…
Micro-level language-planning and grass-root initiatives: A case study of Irish language comedy and Inari Sámi rap
The aim of this paper is to examine the increased potential for language change from the micro-level, given the new domains in which minority languages are present in the global era. Drawing on the theoretical notion of sociolinguistic scales this paper presents a comparative account of the changing positions of the Irish and Inari Sámi languages. Specifically, this paper is centred on a comparative study of two media personalities, namely an Iri…
Minority languages and performative genres: The case of Irish language stand-up comedy
This article will examine the potential for language change from the bottom-up given the new domains in which minority languages are present as a result of the process of language mobility. Drawing on a theoretical notion of sociolinguistic scales, this article aims to discuss how the position of the Irish language has been reconfigured. From this position, the article traces how the domain of the Irish language in contemporary Irish society has …
The effects of language planning initiatives on the language attitudes and language practices of university students: A comparative study of Irish and Basque
This paper seeks to gauge the success of language planning initiatives in reversing language shift in Ireland and the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC) amongst Irish and Basque university students who are not first-language speakers of either minority language. By examining data elicited through questionnaires on the students’ language attitudes and practices, the paper aims to uncover the attitudinal support the students exhibit to Irish and Bas…
Normalising language through television: The case of the Irish language television channel, TG4
This article addresses one of the major gaps in the existing research on the sociolinguistic effects of minority language media, namely the effect that such media have on actual language attitudes and language practices. One key notion addressed in the article is the role of minority media in supporting the revitalisation of minority languages, understood here as lesser-used languages. Drawing on the case of the Irish language television channel …
Media, multilingualism and language policing: An introduction
313) describes how, in the seventeenth century, the term ''police'' was used to describe the rational management of the state, ''the set of means by which the state's forces can be increased while preserving the state in good order''. This rational management would be effected through the collection and production of knowledge about the people, so as to strengthen the state. Such knowledge would be infinitely detailed, stretching into the smalles…
Convergence and divergence in Basque, Irish and Sámi media language policing
Media, multilingualism and language policing: An introduction
313) describes how, in the seventeenth century, the term ''police'' was used to describe the rational management of the state, ''the set of means by which the state's forces can be increased while preserving the state in good order''. This rational management would be effected through the collection and production of knowledge about the people, so as to strengthen the state. Such knowledge would be infinitely detailed, stretching into the smalles…
Convergence and divergence in Basque, Irish and Sámi media language policing
Micro-level language-planning and grass-root initiatives: A case study of Irish language comedy and Inari Sámi rap
The aim of this paper is to examine the increased potential for language change from the micro-level, given the new domains in which minority languages are present in the global era. Drawing on the theoretical notion of sociolinguistic scales this paper presents a comparative account of the changing positions of the Irish and Inari Sámi languages. Specifically, this paper is centred on a comparative study of two media personalities, namely an Iri…
The effects of language planning initiatives on the language attitudes and language practices of university students: A comparative study of Irish and Basque
This paper seeks to gauge the success of language planning initiatives in reversing language shift in Ireland and the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC) amongst Irish and Basque university students who are not first-language speakers of either minority language. By examining data elicited through questionnaires on the students’ language attitudes and practices, the paper aims to uncover the attitudinal support the students exhibit to Irish and Bas…
Multilingual creativity and play in the semiotic landscape: An introduction
The papers presented in this special issue contribute to the growing interest in creativity in the study of multilingualism (cf. Deumert, 2014, 2017; Jones, 2012, 2016; Maybin & Swann, 2007). The r
There's no excuse. Speak Catalan!’– the marketing of language acquisition to mobility students
This article explores the ways in which a website designed specifically for tertiary level mobility students, Intercat ( http://www.intercat.cat/en/index.jsp ), markets acquisition of the Catalan language to its target audience. We argue that the site displays tensions between different types of language ideology, in particular between the commodification of language and an ideology of nation and nationhood. These tensions are of sociolinguistic …
Culture and class in a glass: Scaling the semiofoodscape
Developing resources for translanguaging in minority language contexts: A case study of rapping in an Irish primary school
The aim of the present study is to examine the extent to which pedagogic resources based on the principles of translanguaging provide an alternative approach to the teaching of language. The Irish language situation provides a good context in which to investigate the potential for transglossic resources to function as effective teaching resources because it is a situation where having access to the minority language via the education system has n…
Normalising language through television: The case of the Irish language television channel, TG4
This article addresses one of the major gaps in the existing research on the sociolinguistic effects of minority language media, namely the effect that such media have on actual language attitudes and language practices. One key notion addressed in the article is the role of minority media in supporting the revitalisation of minority languages, understood here as lesser-used languages. Drawing on the case of the Irish language television channel …
Regimes of voice and visibility in the refugeescape: A semiotic landscape approach
This paper proposes refugeescapes as a framework for expanding the focus of semiotic landscape studies by centering migration, inequality, and social exclusion. In so doing, the article adds to the work of Mpendukana and Stroud (2018) and Kerfoot and Hytlenstam (2017) in uncovering how place is structured by issues of affect, voice, and visibility. In my paper, I turn to a case study of the spatializing practices of refugees and asylum seekers in…
Cultural Identity in Bicultural Young Adults in Ireland: A Social Representation Theory Approach
This research investigates the nature by which first- and second-generation Irish young adults of (1) African descent, (2) Asian descent, and (3) Eastern European descent explore their cultural identity(ies) through communicating and interpreting social representations relating to their ethnic and national cultures. Using Social Representation Theory (SRT) and, more widely, Proculturation Theory as the theoretical underpinning, we examine how gro…
Minority languages and performative genres: The case of Irish language stand-up comedy
This article will examine the potential for language change from the bottom-up given the new domains in which minority languages are present as a result of the process of language mobility. Drawing on a theoretical notion of sociolinguistic scales, this article aims to discuss how the position of the Irish language has been reconfigured. From this position, the article traces how the domain of the Irish language in contemporary Irish society has …
Normalising language through television: The case of the Irish language television channel, TG4
This article addresses one of the major gaps in the existing research on the sociolinguistic effects of minority language media, namely the effect that such media have on actual language attitudes and language practices. One key notion addressed in the article is the role of minority media in supporting the revitalisation of minority languages, understood here as lesser-used languages. Drawing on the case of the Irish language television channel …
Media, multilingualism and language policing: An introduction
313) describes how, in the seventeenth century, the term ''police'' was used to describe the rational management of the state, ''the set of means by which the state's forces can be increased while preserving the state in good order''. This rational management would be effected through the collection and production of knowledge about the people, so as to strengthen the state. Such knowledge would be infinitely detailed, stretching into the smalles…
Convergence and divergence in Basque, Irish and Sámi media language policing
The effects of language planning initiatives on the language attitudes and language practices of university students: A comparative study of Irish and Basque
This paper seeks to gauge the success of language planning initiatives in reversing language shift in Ireland and the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC) amongst Irish and Basque university students who are not first-language speakers of either minority language. By examining data elicited through questionnaires on the students’ language attitudes and practices, the paper aims to uncover the attitudinal support the students exhibit to Irish and Bas…
Promoting Tourism in Linguistic Minority Spaces on the Web: A Study of Linguistic and Visual Resources on Tourist Websites for Dingle, Ireland and Inari, Finland
This article explores the web-based promotion of tourism in two linguistic minority spaces, namely Dingle in the Corca Dhuibne Gaeltacht (designated Irish-speaking region) in Ireland and Inari in Finnish Sámiland. Tourism websites not only mediate the contact between tourist and tourism producer, but may also become part of the touristic experience both before and after the visit. Various combinations of resources are used on websites in order to…
Micro-level language-planning and grass-root initiatives: A case study of Irish language comedy and Inari Sámi rap
The aim of this paper is to examine the increased potential for language change from the micro-level, given the new domains in which minority languages are present in the global era. Drawing on the theoretical notion of sociolinguistic scales this paper presents a comparative account of the changing positions of the Irish and Inari Sámi languages. Specifically, this paper is centred on a comparative study of two media personalities, namely an Iri…
Minority languages and performative genres: The case of Irish language stand-up comedy
This article will examine the potential for language change from the bottom-up given the new domains in which minority languages are present as a result of the process of language mobility. Drawing on a theoretical notion of sociolinguistic scales, this article aims to discuss how the position of the Irish language has been reconfigured. From this position, the article traces how the domain of the Irish language in contemporary Irish society has …
There's no excuse. Speak Catalan!’– the marketing of language acquisition to mobility students
This article explores the ways in which a website designed specifically for tertiary level mobility students, Intercat ( http://www.intercat.cat/en/index.jsp ), markets acquisition of the Catalan language to its target audience. We argue that the site displays tensions between different types of language ideology, in particular between the commodification of language and an ideology of nation and nationhood. These tensions are of sociolinguistic …
Contesting language ideologies in the linguistic landscape of an Irish tourist town
This article explores the linguistic landscape (LL) of a tourist town named Dingle located in the Southwest of Ireland. Building on recent theorizing in LL studies, where a discourse-analytical approach to LL data is promoted, the study uncovers a number of contesting language ideologies that circulate in the LL of Dingle. The contest involves two key actors, namely the State and the local community, who promote a number of discourse frames that …
Languages in motion: Multilingualism and mobility in the linguistic landscape
This special issue of the International Journal of Bilingualism is concerned with the interplay of multilingualism and mobility in the linguistic landscape (henceforth LL). The various contributors to this special issue view LL studies as offering a way of investigating multilingualism and mobil- ity. The LL is understood herein as an expression of multilingualism in society, a site where lan- guage, together with other semiotic resources, is inv…
Indexing Authenticity: The Linguistic Landscape of an Irish Tourist Town
This article examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of Dingle, the centre for a peripheral minority language community on the Southwestern seaboard of Ireland. Dingle is a popular touristic space located within the boundary of the Gaeltacht and for this reason offers a unique setting for the examination of issues prevalent in the sociolinguistics of globalization (cf. Blommaert 2010; Coupland 2010a) including authenticity and commodification. In …
Developing resources for translanguaging in minority language contexts: A case study of rapping in an Irish primary school
The aim of the present study is to examine the extent to which pedagogic resources based on the principles of translanguaging provide an alternative approach to the teaching of language. The Irish language situation provides a good context in which to investigate the potential for transglossic resources to function as effective teaching resources because it is a situation where having access to the minority language via the education system has n…
Multilingual creativity and play in the semiotic landscape: An introduction
The papers presented in this special issue contribute to the growing interest in creativity in the study of multilingualism (cf. Deumert, 2014, 2017; Jones, 2012, 2016; Maybin & Swann, 2007). The r
Culture and class in a glass: Scaling the semiofoodscape
Regimes of voice and visibility in the refugeescape: A semiotic landscape approach
This paper proposes refugeescapes as a framework for expanding the focus of semiotic landscape studies by centering migration, inequality, and social exclusion. In so doing, the article adds to the work of Mpendukana and Stroud (2018) and Kerfoot and Hytlenstam (2017) in uncovering how place is structured by issues of affect, voice, and visibility. In my paper, I turn to a case study of the spatializing practices of refugees and asylum seekers in…
Irish Identities: Sociolinguistic Perspectives
Cultural Identity in Bicultural Young Adults in Ireland: A Social Representation Theory Approach
This research investigates the nature by which first- and second-generation Irish young adults of (1) African descent, (2) Asian descent, and (3) Eastern European descent explore their cultural identity(ies) through communicating and interpreting social representations relating to their ethnic and national cultures. Using Social Representation Theory (SRT) and, more widely, Proculturation Theory as the theoretical underpinning, we examine how gro…
Broken: Towards a vulnerability approach to SL research
Embodied vulnerability: Semiotic landscapes of suicide
A recent move in semiotic landscape studies is to examine how those placed on the margins of society counteract such regulation by using the semiotic landscape as a platform to enact regimes of voice and agency where scholarly attention has begun to study the spatial representations of vulnerability and how individuals othered by these processes fight back (see for example Milani & Levron, 2019 ; Moriarty, 2019 ). Drawing on Butler’s (2004) work …
Rhizomatic assemblage of the seascape in the Anthropocene: Mara as a multisensory semiotic landscape approach
In the face of ever accelerating climate change, the ability to resist such change and work with nature to secure a more environmentally just future poses a striking but necessary challenge. From this perspective, the present article asks: Can a posthuman reimagining of the human, non-human, and more-than-human nexus in the context of a semiotic landscape analysis of the seas (henceforth, seascape) create new possibilities beyond the Anthropocene…
Sociology (16 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (12 works) · Irish (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Minority language (6 works) · Multilingualism (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)