The Revitalization of Emily
Scottish Gaelic is an entirely different language from Scots and Scottish English. English-speaking government and religious authorities have tried to eliminate Gaelic through military conquest, religious and secular education, discrimination, and intimidation. Scottish Gaelic has been erased from history to the extent that most people with Gaelic ancestry are unaware of their own linguistic and cultural heritage. Gaelic revitalization is about overcoming the damage done through miseducation, discrimination, and stereotypes, and passing the language and culture on in homes, communities and classrooms to ensure its future use.
People are revitalizing Gaelic today in Scotland, Canada, and around the world. Education, design, media, literature, songs, food, religion, celebrations, policy, and scholarship are all different areas of Gaelic revitalization.
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I was more into physics and chemistry, and computers seemed like a black box. This paper explores the way that shared ideologies and differing experiences of literacy may shape social interactions between adult Gaelic learners and adult first-language Gaelic speakers.
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Published comments from some adults learning Published comments from some adults learning Gaelic in Scotland indicate that issues related to Gaelic literacy can constitute a problem or point of difference between learners and native speakers. I propose that both first-language Gaelic speakers and Gaelic learners have been socialized into this ideology, but they approach it from different perspectives that have been shaped by their respective language socialization and education experiences.
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On the one hand, most adult Gaelic learners take literacy in their first language for granted and approach the acquisition of Gaelic literacy as a normal and fundamental part of second language learning. On the other hand, a substantial proportion of Gaelic-English bilinguals received little or no formal education in their first language, Gaelic, and were educated in a system that subordinated Gaelic to English — when it recognized Gaelic at all.
When Gaelic-English bilinguals who do not feel confident in their Gaelic literacy skills encounter Gaelic learners who display Gaelic literacy skills or an interest in acquiring such skills, the encounter may prompt these bilinguals to reflect on their Gaelic literacy skills and interpret them through the ideological filter of literate speakerhood. This may result in feelings of lack or inadequacy in their first-language literacy ability, expressed as negative affect to Gaelic learners.
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These reactions may in turn be misinterpreted as signs of personal animosity, exclusivity, a deliberate withholding of information, or even inauthenticity by adult learners, who mistakenly assume that any speaker of Gaelic must also be a proficient reader and writer of Gaelic. Sociolinguistic Ethnography of Gaelic Communities more. Moray Watson and Michelle Macleod, eds.
Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties. Such discourse often invokes the views of linguists as scientific or expert Such discourse often invokes the views of linguists as scientific or expert knowledge. More recently, the scope of this field has been extended to cover the science of linguistics. Some linguistic anthropologists have argued that critical analyses of the science of linguistics need to be further extended to include critical analysis of the study of language shift and language obsolescence and that is the purpose of this paper.
I argue that the study of processes of language shift and revitalisation within social science should also include a reflexive study of the academic discourses about these processes, the discourses that social scientists themselves bring to bear on particular languages.
It should also include a study of how those discourses are disseminated into the wider public sphere. This paper presents such a study, focusing on the diffusion of academic discourses about language death into the media discourses about Gaelic in Scotland. Please contact me if you have difficulty obtaining a copy of this article from your library.
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My article, "Language Revitalization Discourses as Metaculture: Policy, Planning and Public Discourse. This paper describes the influence of neoliberal ideologies and practices of governance on minority-language planning in Scotland. It focuses on the development practices of Gaelic-language planning through the example of a particular The third aspect is the quantifiable and economistic nature of the criteria used to assess the success or failure of the Scheme, which do not take into account the actual linguistic behavior of participants.
These aspects of the Scheme illustrate how language planning based on sociolinguistic principles has been marginalized from neoliberally influenced Gaelic-language planning. This paper discusses the multiple ways that Scottish Gaelic, as a minority language, can be made to stand for, or index, social identities in contemporary Scotland.
Using examples from published research and the Scottish media, I analyze Using examples from published research and the Scottish media, I analyze how Gaelic is made to stand for a local identities, b Scottish national identity, and c European identity in the context of the EU. If you cite this paper please include the URL: Social Identity and Language and Identity. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology Publication Date: