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Author : DUNMORE STUART S
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2025-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474443141
Author : Stuart S. Dunmore
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781474443128
The first in-depth assessment of language use and attitudinal perceptions among adults who received an immersion education in a minority language.
Author : Marsaili MacLeod
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781474420662
New perspectives on the use and acquisition of a minority language. The number of young people speaking Gaelic in Scotland is growing for the first time since Census records began but less than half of all Gaelic speakers use Gaelic in the home. This book sets out to explore why. Focusing on how people, communities and organisations are 'doing' Gaelic, this book explores the processes and patterns of Gaelic language acquisition, use and management across four key spaces of interaction: the family, the community, educational settings, and in organisations. The contributors adopt an experiential approach to give voice to speakers in a diverse range of communities, both geographically and socially, as the volume illustrates the ways in which the use of Gaelic is changing in the context of increasingly fragmented, networked communities. Gaelic in Contemporary Scotland provides a range of critical perspectives on existing models for minority language revitalisation and to introduce fresh ideas for language revitalisation theory. Through its analysis of the interconnections between, and differences within, Gaelic communities, this collection challenges old understandings of the Gaelic community as a single collective identity, making it an invaluable resource for students, lecturers and researchers interested in questions of linguistic diversity, linguistic minorities and language policy and planning.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1857520807
Author : Moray Watson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748637102
Bringing together a range of perspectives on the Gaelic language, this book covers the history of the language, its development in Scotland and Canada, its spelling, syntax and morphology, its modern vocabulary, and the study of its dialects. It also addresses sociolinguistic issues such as identity, perception, language planning and the appearance of the language in literature. Each chapter is written by an expert on their topic.The book has been written accessibly with a non-specialist audience in mind. It will have a particular value for those requiring introductions to aspects of the Gaelic language. It will also be of great interest to those who are embarking on research on Gaelic for the first time. Authors include Colm O Baoill, David Adger, Rob Dunbar, Seosamh Watson, Ken Nilsen, Ken MacKinnon and Ronald Black.
Author : Wilson McLeod
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781474462419
In this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland, Wilson McLeod looks at the policies of government and the work of activists and campaigners who have sought to maintain and promote Gaelic.
Author : William James Michael McIntyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
ISBN : 1624991955
Over the past 4 centuries, the Gaelic language has suffered continual decline, occasioned in part by active campaigns to eradicate it and in part by a more-or-less voluntary shift to English. Gaelic speakers, experiencing the marginalization of their culture, were shunted to the sidelines of the English-speaking imperium, except as they abandoned their native tongue and assimilated to the English-speaking hegemony, hastening the erosion of their own language and culture. Recent years, however, have seen an effort to revive the language that is unprecedented in Scottish Gaelic history, and perhaps in the history of language revival. In concordance with a worldwide concern about the demise of endangered languages, and bolstered by a newly established Scottish government (the first since the 18th century when it was dissolved and merged with the English parliament in the formation of the United Kingdom), "the Gaelic" is experiencing robust growth in opportunities for learning and, as its adherents hope, for its maintenance and revival. The revival efforts spread out across many domains, such as media and local and national governments. However, there is a particularly strong concentration of effort in formal and nonformal education as government funding, official sanction, and a multitude of nongovernmental organizations contribute to the efforts to build a foundation for a Gaelic future. Half the world's languages, subject to the erosive power of a globalized society, are expected to fade away by the end of the 21st century. This wave of language extinctions would constitute a massive loss to humanity's cultural legacy. This work enumerates the rationales for maintaining heritage languages and examines one particular exemplary campaign to reverse the slide to language death. The current establishing of a foundation for the future of Scottish Gaelic in the educational system may provide a model for other submerged groups who also seek to avert the eradication of their languages and cultures. This work seeks to answer the following questions: How can a minority group maintain its culture in the face of an increasingly globalized society? Can such a minority group even survive? What is the rationale for saving minority and endangered languages from the threat of language death? What does a concerted campaign of language education look like that is centered around the passing of a language and culture to the next generation? This is an important book for all scholars and other individuals who are interested in the Gaelic and other Celtic languages; endangered-language maintenance, survival, and revival; and issues surrounding indigenous and language-minority populations.
Author : Wilson McLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language policy
ISBN : UCSC:32106018747821
This volume presents an interdisciplinary collection of essays, reviewing the state of Gaelic in contemporary Scotland, covering sociolinguistics and language policy, questions of identity and community and educational, media, cultural, and development issues. Contributions in Gaelic also have detailed English language synopses.
Author : Emily McEwan-Fujita
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1988747368
The essays in this collection focus on multiple aspects of Scottish Gaelic language revitalization efforts in Scotland and Nova Scotia, including language ideologies, affect, media discourses, neoliberalism, Reversing Language Shift (RLS), communities of practice, and power imbalances in the research and representation of Gaelic communities.
Author : Nancy C. Dorian
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781512815580
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Konstanze Glaser
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853599323
This book engages critically with debates about linguistic continuity and cultural survival in relation to Europe's authochthonous minorities. Focusing on Scotland's Gaels and Lusatia's Sorbs/Wends, it analyses and evaluates competing assumptions, rationales and ideologies which have shaped previous and present language revitalisation initiatives and that continue to pose dilemmas to language planners and politicians in the UK, Germany and beyond.
Author : Cassie Smith-Christmas,Noel P. Ó Murchadha,Michael Hornsby,Máiréad Moriarty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137575586
This book represents the first collection specifically devoted to New Speaker Studies, focusing on language ideologies and practices of speakers in a variety of minority language communities. Over thirteen chapters, it uses the new speaker lens to investigate not only linguistic issues, such as language variation and change, phonetics, morphosyntax, language acquisition, code-switching, but also sociolinguistic issues, such as legitimacy, integration, and motivation in language learning and use. Besides covering a range of languages - Basque, Breton, Galician, Giernesiei, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh - and their different sociolinguistic situations, the chapters also encompass a series of interactional settings: institutional settings, media and the home domain, as well as different contexts for becoming a new speaker of a minority language, such as by migration or through education. This collection represents an output by a lively network of researchers: it will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers and academics working in the field of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, language policy and those working within minority language communities.
Author : Julia Sallabank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107655881
Language attitudes and ideologies are of key importance in assessing the chances of success of revitalisation efforts for endangered languages. However, few book-length studies relate attitudes to language policies, or address the changing attitudes of non-speakers and the motivations of members of language movements. Through a combination of ethnographic research and quantitative surveys, this book presents an in-depth study of revitalisation efforts for indigenous languages in three small islands round the British Isles. The author identifies and confronts key issues commonly faced by practitioners and researchers working in small language communities with little institutional support. This book explores the complex relationship of ideologies, identity and language-related beliefs and practices, and examines the implications of these factors for language revitalisation measures. Essential reading for researchers interested in language endangerment and revitalisation, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and language policy and planning, as well as language planners and campaigners.
Author : Robert McColl Millar
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474448567
Robert McColl Millar examines how language has been used in Scotland since the earliest times. While primarily focusing on the histories of the speakers of Scots and Gaelic, and their competition with the encroaching use of (Scottish) Standard English, he also traces the decline and eventual 'death' of Pictish, British and Norn. Four case studies illustrate the historical development of North East Scots, Scottish Standard English, Shetland Scots and Glasgow Scots. Immigrant languages are also discussed throughout the book.
Author : Noel Ó Murchadha,Bettina Migge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351016254
Like many languages across the globe, the Celtic languages today are experiencing varying degrees of minoritisation and revitalisation. The experience of the Celtic languages in the twenty-first century is characterised by language shift to English and French, but they have also been the focus of official and grassroots initiatives aimed at reinvigorating the minoritised languages. This modern reality is evident in the profile of contemporary users of the Celtic languages, in the type of variation that they practise, and in their views on Celtic language and society in the twenty-first century. In turn, this reality provides a challenge to preconceived ideas about what the Celtic languages are like and how they should be regarded and managed at local and global levels. This book aims to shed light on some of the main issues facing the Celtic languages into the future and to showcase different approaches to studying such contexts. It presents contributions interested in explicating the modern condition of the Celtic languages. It engages with attitudinal support for the Celtic languages, modes of language transmission, choosing educational models in minority settings, pedagogical approaches for language learners and perceptions of linguistic practices. These issues are considered within the context of language shift and revitalisation in the Celtic languages. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Language, Culture and Curriculum.
