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“The study is oriented to scholars interested in understanding FLP from a language-shift perspective and provides a comprehensive overview of the field, likely useful to researchers and graduate students. … The volume highlights the importance of studying autochthonous minority language contexts (such as Scottish Gaelic) and the role of interaction among extended family members.” (Muhammad Ahmad Alasmari, Language Policy, Vol. 18, 2019)
“The volume is a pioneer in the study of FLP and its relation to language shift. … as the first book-length treatment of FLP, this work will be a great resource for both undergraduate and graduate students in language education, sociolinguistics and bilingualism, as well as for researchers interested in minority-language development and maintenance, language socialisation and linguistic ideologies.” (Juyoung Song, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol. 38 (1), March, 2017)
-Wilson McLeod, Professor of Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK
"This book has much to teach those who hope to halt the shift process that threatens the survival of many small and especially indigenous languages around the world. Read this book to learn why the final page does not foresee a completely dark future for Gaelic in this family or predict general failure for efforts to reverse language shift."
-Nancy Dorian, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Bryn Mawr College, USA
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Cassie Smith-Christmas is a research fellow for Soillse, the inter-university Gaelic language research network. After completing her PhD at the University of Glasgow, Cassie took up her fellowship with the University of Highlands and Islands and has also held a fellowship at the Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Family Language Policy
Book Subtitle: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home
Authors: Cassie Smith-Christmas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137521811
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52180-4Published: 29 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52181-1Published: 29 October 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 137
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Language Teaching, Language Policy and Planning, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics