[lg policy] UCSantaCruz (Calif.) LRC RESEARCH ASSOCIATE: JOHN WALSH

[Harold Schiffman]

LRC RESEARCH ASSOCIATE: JOHN WALSH

John Walsh (Professor of Irish) is visiting UCSC for most of 2009-10
from his home base at the National University of Ireland (NUI) in
Galway. John has many titles this year. He is Visiting Associate
Professor of Linguistics and a Research Associate of the Linguistics
Research Center, and he is at UCSC as Fulbright Irish Language Scholar
2009-10. This strand of the Fulbright program is supported by the
Irish government in order to promote the teaching of Irish in the
United States. John is currently teaching LING 184, Structure of
Irish, an integrated course that combines instruction in the Irish
language with aspects of the sociolinguistics of Irish, particularly
its status in contemporary Irish society. John’s research is concerned
with language policy, language legislation, Irish language media, and
the relationship between the Irish language and patterns of
emigration. While at Santa Cruz, he is writing a book about the Irish
language and Ireland’s socio-economic development. He is also working
on comparisons between the status of California’s endangered languages
and that of Irish, and on the immigration of Irish speakers to the Bay
Area.

On Thursday, October 29, John will give a colloquium at UC Berkeley on
‘Governance, legislation, ideology: Irish language policy and the
Official Languages Act’. The colloquium is co-sponsored by UCB’s
Linguistics Department and its Celtic Studies Program.

John is reported to be constantly astounded by the sunny and dry Santa
Cruz weather and has been spotted cycling along the West Cliff Drive
and picking pumpkins in the fields off Highway 1.

http://ohlone.ucsc.edu/whasc/?p=499

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