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This volume celebrates the contribution of Professor Colin
Williams, an immensely important and influential scholar in the
field of language policy for more than forty years. Eighteen
chapters by former students, colleagues and collaborators address a
range of topics involving different aspects of language legislation
and language rights, governance, economics, territoriality, land
use planning, and onomastics. Six chapters address policy issues in
Professor Williams's native Wales while others focus on Canada,
Catalonia, Ireland and Scotland. The volume concludes with an
Afterword by Professor Williams himself. The book will be suitable
for postgraduates and researchers not only in the field of language
policy and planning but also sociolinguistics, geography, law and
political science.
This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic
researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the
challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and
reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social
context. The period of four decades between 1980 and 2020 that
straddled the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the
twenty-first is widely regarded as one that witnessed a series of
fundamental social, economic and political transformations. Many
societies have become increasingly individualistic, mobile and
diverse in terms of ethnicity and identity; their economies have
become increasingly interconnected; and their governance structures
have become increasingly complex, incorporating a growing number of
different levels and actors. In addition, rapid advancements with
regard to automated, digital and communication technology have had
a far-reaching impact on how people interact with each other and
participate in society. The chapters in this book aim to advance an
agenda of key questions that should concern those working in the
field of language revitalisation over the coming years, and the
volume will be of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers
in related areas including sociolinguistics, education, sociology,
geography, political science, law, economics, Celtic studies, and
communication technology.
This volume celebrates the contribution of Professor Colin
Williams, an immensely important and influential scholar in the
field of language policy for more than forty years. Eighteen
chapters by former students, colleagues and collaborators address a
range of topics involving different aspects of language legislation
and language rights, governance, economics, territoriality, land
use planning, and onomastics. Six chapters address policy issues in
Professor Williams’s native Wales while others focus on Canada,
Catalonia, Ireland and Scotland. The volume concludes with an
Afterword by Professor Williams himself. The book will be suitable
for postgraduates and researchers not only in the field of language
policy and planning but also sociolinguistics, geography, law and
political science.
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.
This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic
researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the
challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and
reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social
context. The period of four decades between 1980 and 2020 that
straddled the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the
twenty-first is widely regarded as one that witnessed a series of
fundamental social, economic and political transformations. Many
societies have become increasingly individualistic, mobile and
diverse in terms of ethnicity and identity; their economies have
become increasingly interconnected; and their governance structures
have become increasingly complex, incorporating a growing number of
different levels and actors. In addition, rapid advancements with
regard to automated, digital and communication technology have had
a far-reaching impact on how people interact with each other and
participate in society. The chapters in this book aim to advance an
agenda of key questions that should concern those working in the
field of language revitalisation over the coming years, and the
volume will be of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers
in related areas including sociolinguistics, education, sociology,
geography, political science, law, economics, Celtic studies, and
communication technology.
Duanaire na Sracaire is the first anthology to bring together
Scotland's Gaelic poetry from the millenium c.600-1600 AD, when
Scotland shared its rich culture with Ireland. It includes a huge
range of diverse poetry: prayers and hymns of Iona, Fenian lays,
praise poems and satires, courtly songs and lewd rants, songs of
battle and death, incantations and love poems. All poems appear
with facing-page translations which capture the spirit and beauty
of the originals and are accompanied by detailed notes. A
comprehensive introduction sets the context and analyses the role
and functions of poetry in Gaelic society. This collection will
appeal to poetry lovers, Gaelic speakers and those keen to explore
a vital part of Scotland's literary heritage. ...
This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the
transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a
range of sociolinguistic contexts. When traditional modes of
intergenerational transmission begin to break down, minority
language and diaspora communities resort to other modes of
transmission, out of necessity, to complement traditional
mechanisms and secure language maintenance. This volume brings
together a broad range of studies of these alternative modes of
transmission, examining the complex and diverse practical,
ideological and personal challenges that arise in different
settings. Beyond addressing the dynamics of language use within the
home and family, the book also emphasises the importance of the
participation of the minority community itself in language and
cultural transmission. These mechanisms and initiatives, sometimes
overlooked or dismissed in the academic literature, will prove to
be essential in maintaining and ensuring the survival of minority
and heritage languages into the 21st century and beyond. The twelve
chapters in the book are divided into four sections
(intergenerational transmission; transmission in post-traditional
families; alternatives to 'traditional' transmission; and
transmission in diasporic contexts), and the language contexts,
both minoritised and diasporic, which are discussed include Basque,
Breton, Galician, Guernesais, Irish, Maori, Russian, Scottish
Gaelic, Sorbian and Spanish. This book will be of interest to
students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language acquisition,
heritage language maintenance and revitalization, and language
policy and planning.
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.
In this detailed and absorbing study, Wilson McLeod challenges the familiar view that Gaelic Scotland and Gaelic Ireland formed a cultural unit during the late middle ages and early modern period. Dr McLeod's examination of the surviving sources, especially formal bardic poetry, shows that Ireland was culturally dominant. While Scottish Gaeldom attached great significance to the Irish connection, Irish Gaeldom, McLeod argues, perceived Scotland as peripheral.
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