LINGUIST List: Vol-30-4501. Tue Nov 26 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.
Subject: 30.4501, Books: Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland: Dunmore
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 21:05:15
From: Anna Glazier [Anna.Glazier at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland: Dunmore
Title: Language Revitalisation in Gaelic Scotland
Subtitle: Linguistic Practice and Ideology
Publication Year: 2019
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
www.edinburghuniversitypress.com
Book URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-language-revitalisation-in-gaelic-scotland.html
Author: Stuart Dunmore
Electronic: ISBN: 9781474443128 Pages: 196 Price: U.K. £ 75
Electronic: ISBN: 9781474443135 Pages: 196 Price: U.K. £ 75
Hardback: ISBN: 9781474443111 Pages: 196 Price: U.K. £ 75
Abstract:
Explores the long-term outcomes of bilingual education and their implications
for language revitalisation
* Surveys the history of Gaelic-medium education in Scotland and the use of
Gaelic beyond the classroom
* Samples 130 participants to examine language practices and attitudes to
bilingualism
* Uses an ‘ethnography of speaking’ approach to explore 46 interviewees’
beliefs and ideologies about Scottish Gaelic
* Provides the first in-depth assessment of language use and attitudinal
perceptions among adults who received an immersion education in a minority
language
Gaelic-medium education (GME) has been offered in Scottish primary schools
since 1985. Situated within the interrelated disciplines of sociolinguistics
and sociology of language, this book explores the language use and attitudinal
perceptions of a sample of 130 adults who received GME at primary school. As
the first students to have received a bilingual education are now in their
late 20s and 30s, this volume offers a timely examination of the long-term
outcomes of the system in its earliest years, and of the future prospects for
Gaelic language maintenance and revitalisation in Scotland.
The book presents in-depth discussion and analysis of narratives in order to
demonstrate former Gaelic-medium students’ present-day relationships to the
languages they speak, offering fascinating insights into the possible reasons
– historical, ideological and personal – for these relationships. This book
presents the first open assessment of the outcomes of Gaelic-medium education
in Scotland, and offers suggestions for individuals and policymakers seeking
to revitalise languages internationally.
Available in North America from our distribution partners, Oxford University
Press.
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Language Documentation
Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Gaelic, Scottish (gla)
Written In: English (eng)
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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=139233
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