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The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community

Gaelic Crisis Book

£25.00

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.

 

Acknowledgements

Roles of the IGRP authors

Abbreviations

 

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. CENSUS ANALYSIS
  3. SURVEY OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE ABILITY AND USE
  4. SURVEY OF LANGUAGE USE AMONG TEENAGE PUPILS IN THE WESTERN ISLES
  5. COMMUNITY SOCIOLINGUISTIC SURVEY OF GAELIC USE AND ATTITUDES IN THREE ISLANDS
  6. ABILITY, HOUSEHOLD PRACTICE AND SPEAKER TYPOLOGY SURVEY IN THREE ISLANDS
  7. LINKING THE FINDINGS AND DRAWING CONCLUSIONS: TRACKING A TRAJECTORY OF DECLINE
  8. CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLINGUISTIC PROFILE OF GAELIC IN LANGUAGE PLANNING AND POLICY CONTEXT: RELEVANCE OF MANAGEMENT MODELS
  9. TOWARDS A NEW MODEL FOR THE REVIVAL OF THE GAELIC COMMUNITY

 

REFERENCES 

INDEX