Confirming two cultures
Negotiation of negative evaluation in the narratives of adult learners of Irish in post-conflict Northern Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12625795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthea Irwin (0000-0001-6335-244X, University of Ulster, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 94-118 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-27 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Narrative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1387-6740 • E-ISSN: 1569-9935 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ni.17043.irw |
| OpenAlex | W2892433193 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
The learning journey of adult learners of Irish in post-conflict Northern Ireland can contain contentious elements, particularly related to (perceived) politicisation of the language during and following the conflict. Coates and Thornborrow (2005) suggest that stories involve striking a balance between deviation from norms and presenting oneself as “culture confirming”, so an apt way to explore these learners’ experiences is to elicit and analyse their narratives. A majority of the narratives contain one or more “opponents”, in the Greimasian sense, that detrimentally affected the learner’s engagement with the Irish language and would therefore invite negative evaluation. The learners, however, use a unique range of devices to mitigate, background, abstract or make implicit their evaluation. This enables them to simultaneously mark and move on from the challenge, maintain or restore equilibrium, and confirm two cultures: their traditional culture and a new post-conflict cultural formation
Balance (ability · Ethnology · Irish · Linguistics · Narrative · Northern ireland · Sociology · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Identity and Language Learning
Language in the News
Analyzing Narrative Reality
Self-making and world-making
Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts
Morphology of the Folktale
The Social Stratification of English in New York City
Distinction
The Order of Things
The Irish Language in Northern Ireland
Women, Men and Politeness
Narrative Analysis
Deliberating the Irish language in Northern Ireland
Protestants and the Irish Language
In Other Words
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |