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This book represents the first collection specifically devoted to
New Speaker Studies, focusing on language ideologies and practices
of speakers in a variety of minority language communities. Over
thirteen chapters, it uses the new speaker lens to investigate not
only linguistic issues, such as language variation and change,
phonetics, morphosyntax, language acquisition, code-switching, but
also sociolinguistic issues, such as legitimacy, integration, and
motivation in language learning and use. Besides covering a range
of languages - Basque, Breton, Galician, Giernesiei, Irish,
Scottish Gaelic and Welsh - and their different sociolinguistic
situations, the chapters also encompass a series of interactional
settings: institutional settings, media and the home domain, as
well as different contexts for becoming a new speaker of a minority
language, such as by migration or through education. This
collection represents an output by a lively network of researchers:
it will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers and academics
working in the field of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics,
language policy and those working within minority language
communities.
The first in-depth investigation of Gaelic based on sociolinguistic
analysis . Draws on the latest scholarship and expertise developed
by the Soillse research network for Gaelic revitalisation . Offers
fresh perspectives from notable early career scholars together with
internationally recognised experts in small language revitalization
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. Focusing on how people, communities and organisations
are 'doing' Gaelic, this book explores the processes and patterns
of Gaelic language acquisition, use and management across four key
spaces of interaction: the family, the community, educational
settings, and in organisations. The contributors adopt an
experiential approach to give voice to speakers in a diverse range
of communities, both geographically and socially, as the volume
illustrates the ways in w
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