Fwd: new book on Gaelic linguistic continuity

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

FYI - A new book on Gaelic and Sorbian language 
communities was announced on the Highlands list. 
See details below

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>Date:         Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:10:48 +0100
>From: Wilson McLeod <W.McLeod at ED.AC.UK>
>Subject: new book on linguistic continuity and ethno-cultural survival
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>A chàirdean
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>List members may be interested in the following new book:
>
>Minority Languages and Cultural Diversity in 
>Europe: Gaelic and  Sorbian Perspectives
>
>Konstanze Glaser
>
>Multilingual Matters, 2007
>13 Digit ISBN: 978-1-85359-932-3
>
>Summary:
>
>To what extent is linguistic continuity a 
>prerequisite for  ethno-cultural survival? 
>Focusing on the Gaelic community in Scotland 
>and the Sorbs of Lusatia, this study illuminates 
>core assumptions and  rationales in relation to 
>minority language revitalisation ideologies  in 
>Scotland and Germany and shows how they have 
>been affected by  assimilation processes arising 
>from modernisation and globalisation. A 
>thorough review of relevant theoretical debates 
>is followed by a  presentation of historical 
>contexts and a detailed analysis of 
>contemporary discourses about bilingualism, 
>cultural difference and  ethno-cultural 
>belonging within the Gaelic and Sorbian 
>communities.  Drawing on more than 100 
>interviews, a questionnaire survey and a wide 
>range of comments by Gaelic and Sorbian speakers 
>in the media, the  author identifies current 
>ideological faultlines in Gaelic and Sorbian 
>activist circles and argues that minority 
>language planners must  critically engage with 
>competing theoretical paradigms if 
>revitalisation efforts are to be successful.
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>Le meas
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>Wilson McLeod
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>Dr Wilson McLeod
>Ceiltis agus Eòlas na h-Alba / Celtic and Scottish Studies
>19 Ceàrnag Sheòrais / 19 George Square
>Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann / University of Edinburgh
>Dùn Èideann / Edinburgh EH8 9LD
>ALBA/ SCOTLAND


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