31.3717, Books: Gaelic in Scotland: McLeod

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Subject: 31.3717, Books: Gaelic in Scotland: McLeod

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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:55:20
From: Anna Glazier [Anna.Glazier at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Gaelic in Scotland: McLeod

 


Title: Gaelic in Scotland 
Subtitle: Policies, Movements, Ideologies 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
	   www.edinburghuniversitypress.com
	

Book URL: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-gaelic-in-scotland.html 


Author: Wilson McLeod

Electronic: ISBN:  9781474462426 Pages: 456 Price: U.K. £ 95
Electronic: ISBN:  9781474462419 Pages: 456 Price: U.K. £ 95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781474462396 Pages: 456 Price: U.K. £ 95


Abstract:

The first comprehensive study of Gaelic in modern Scotland, from 1872 to the
present

*The first comprehensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern
Scotland

*Examines changing government policies towards Gaelic and the movements and
activists that have campaigned for the language

*Assesses shifting ideologies, assumptions, arguments and discourses relating
to Gaelic

*Draws on diverse source material with an interdisciplinary approach

In this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland –
from the introduction of state education in 1872 up to the present day –
Wilson McLeod looks at the policies of government and the work of activists
and campaigners who have sought to maintain and promote Gaelic. In addition,
he scrutinises the competing ideologies that have driven the decline,
marginalisation and subsequent revitalisation of the language.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, at the boundary of history, law,
language policy and sociolinguistics, the book draws upon a wide range of
sources in both English and Gaelic to consider in detail the development of
the language policy regime for Gaelic that was developed between 1975 and
1989. It examines the campaign for the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005,
its contents and implementation; and assesses the development and delivery of
development and delivery of Gaelic education and media from the late 1980s to
the present.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Gaelic, Scottish (gla)


Written In: English  (eng)

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