Gaelic in Contemporary Scotland (eBook, PDF)

The Revitalisation of an Endangered Language
Redaktion: MacLeod, Marsaili; Smith-Christmas, Cassie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474420662
• Artikelnr.: 54789887

Autorenporträt

Marsaili MacLeod is a Lecturer in Gaelic Studies in the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen. Cassie Smith-Christmas currently holds a fellowship with the Smithsonian Institution and is a co-principal investigator on the project 'The Intersection of Language and Community in Corca Dhuibhne' as part of the 'Sustaining Minoritized Languages in Europe (SMiLE)' initiative. She is Research Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway National University of Ireland, Galway

Inhaltsangabe

Prelims: List of figures, List of tables, Acknowledgements, List of
abbreviations, Notes on contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction (Marsaili MacLeod, Cassie Smith-Christmas & Nicola
Carty)
Chapter 2: The language of the playground: Activists building consensus on
the language policy and ethos of a new Gaelic immersion school (Timothy C.
Armstrong)
Chapter 3: Mismatches between national and local Gaelic development:
Cròileagan Dùn Èideann and the promotion of Gaelic-medium education
(Kirstie MacLeod)
Chapter 4: Gaelic amongst schoolchildren: Ideas on language change and
linguistic choices in Gaelic (Sìleas L. NicLeòid)
Chapter 5: When school is over and done with: Linguistic practices and
socio-demographic profiles of Gaelic-medium educated adults (Stuart
Dunmore)
Chapter 6: New speakers of Gaelic: A historical and policy perspective
(Wilson McLeod)
Chapter 7: Learning Gaelic in adulthood: Second language learning in
minority language contexts (Marsaili MacLeod)
Chapter 8: Dlùth is Inneach: Charting language ideology in the contemporary
Gaelic world (Susan Bell & Mark McConville)
Chapter 9: Gaelic language use in public domains (Ingeborg Birnie)
Chapter 10: Planning for growth: the professionalisation of the taskforce
for Gaelic revitalisation (Michelle Macleod, Timothy C. Armstrong, Gillian
Munro & Ian Taylor)
Chapter 11: Organisational language planning: Gaelic Language Plans in the
public sector (Robert Dunbar)
Chapter 12: The future of Gaelic language revitalisation in Scotland
(Marsaili MacLeod & Cassie Smith-Christmas)