New Speakers of Minority Languages

Linguistic Ideologies and Practices
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-137-57557-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 5157 g

Focuses on language ideologies and practices in a range of minority languages and communities
Covers a range of languages and different sociolinguistic situations
Represents the first collection of its kind devoted to New Speaker Studies

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith-Christmas, Cassie

Moriarty, Máiréad

Ó Murchadha, Noel P.

Hornsby, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter. 1. New Speakers, Familiar Concepts?; Noel.P. Ó Murchadha, Cassie Smith-Christmas, Michael Hornsby and Máiréad Moriarty.- Chapter 2. New Gaelic Speakers, New Gaels? Ideologies and ethnolinguistic continuity in contemporary Scotland; Stuart Dunmore.- Chapter 3.‘We’re not fully Welsh’: Hierarchies of belonging and ‘new’ speakers of Welsh; Charlotte Selleck.- Chapter 4. 'We don’t say it like that’: Language ownership and (de)legitimising the new speaker; Julia Sallabank and Yan Marquis.- Chapter 5. Identities and new speakers of minority languages:  A focus on Galician; Bernadette O’Rourke and Fernando Ramallo.- Chapter 6. Double new speakers? Language ideologies of immigrant students in Galicia; Nicola Bermingham.- Chapter 7. Land, language and migration: World War II evacuees as new speakers of Scottish Gaelic; Cassie Smith-Christmas.- Chapter 8. The ideological construction of boundaries between speakers and their varieties; Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin.- Chapter 9. New Basques and Code-switching: Purist Tendencies, Social Pressures; Hanna Lantto.- Chapter 10. New speakers and language in the media: Audience design in Breton and Irish broadcast media; Stefan Moal, Noel.P. Ó Murchadha and John Walsh.- Chapter 11. Linguistic innovation among Glasgow Gaelic new speakers; Claire Nance.- Chapter 12. Verbal lenition among young speakers of Breton: Acquisition and maintenance; Holly J. Kennard.- Chapter 13. New speakers, potential new speakers, and their experiences and abilities in Scottish Gaelic; Nicola Carty.- Chapter 14. New speakers and linguistic practices: Contexts, definitions and issues; David Atkinson.- Chapter 15. Reflections on New Speaker Research and Future Trajectories; Cassie Smith-Christmas and Noel.P. Ó Murchadha.

Über Autor(innen)

Cassie Smith-Christmas is a Research Fellow at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests involve the sociolinguistics of minority languages and she is the author of Family Language Policy: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home (Palgrave, 2016).
Noel.P. Ó Murchadha is Assistant Professor in Language Education at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests lie in the sociolinguistics of minority languages, particularly perceptions of linguistic variation in ‘small’ languages.
Michael Hornsby is Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, and head of its Centre for Celtic Studies. He is the author of Revitalizing Minority Languages: New speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko (Palgrave, 2015).

Máiréad Moriarty is a lecturer in Sociolinguistics and New Media at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests lie in multilingualism and the place for minority languages in domains of popular culture. She is the author of Globalising Language Policy: An Irish Language Perspective (Palgrave, 2015).