Description
The Gaelic crisis in the vernacular community: a comprehensive sociolinguistic survey of Scottish Gaelic
by Conchúr Ó Giollagáin, Gòrdan Camshron, Pàdruig Moireach, Brian Ó Curnáin, Iain Caimbeul, Brian MacDonald and Tamás Péterváry, Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 2020, pp. xx + 480, £25.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-85752-080-4
Detailed Description
'The book is an important wake-up call for Gaelic development in the north-west of Scotland, and will be widely used as a data source.' Claire Nance in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
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Roles of the IGRP authors
Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- CENSUS ANALYSIS
- SURVEY OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE ABILITY AND USE
- SURVEY OF LANGUAGE USE AMONG TEENAGE PUPILS IN THE WESTERN ISLES
- COMMUNITY SOCIOLINGUISTIC SURVEY OF GAELIC USE AND ATTITUDES IN THREE ISLANDS
- ABILITY, HOUSEHOLD PRACTICE AND SPEAKER TYPOLOGY SURVEY IN THREE ISLANDS
- LINKING THE FINDINGS AND DRAWING CONCLUSIONS: TRACKING A TRAJECTORY OF DECLINE
- CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLINGUISTIC PROFILE OF GAELIC IN LANGUAGE PLANNING AND POLICY CONTEXT: RELEVANCE OF MANAGEMENT MODELS
- TOWARDS A NEW MODEL FOR THE REVIVAL OF THE GAELIC COMMUNITY
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