New Speakers of Minority Languages
Linguistic Ideologies and Practices
Editors: Smith-Christmas, C., Ó Murchadha, N.P., Hornsby, M., Moriarty, M. (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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This book represents the first collection specifically devoted to New Speaker Studies, focusing on language ideologies and practices of speakers in a variety of minority language communities. Over thirteen chapters, it uses the new speaker lens to investigate not only linguistic issues, such as language variation and change, phonetics, morphosyntax, language acquisition, code-switching, but also sociolinguistic issues, such as legitimacy, integration, and motivation in language learning and use. Besides covering a range of languages - Basque, Breton, Galician, Giernesiei, Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh - and their different sociolinguistic situations, the chapters also encompass a series of interactional settings: institutional settings, media and the home domain, as well as different contexts for becoming a new speaker of a minority language, such as by migration or through education. This collection represents an output by a lively network of researchers: it will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers and academics working in the field of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, language policy and those working within minority language communities.
- About the authors
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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). - Reviews
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“This volume is a must-read for scholars of minority languages. Data and theoretically rich, the chapters explore the lived complexities of practice and identification associated with learning a minority language against the backdrop of diverse language ideologies. New Speakerness emerges as a site of boundary-making and/or contestation around which core questions of what “the language” is and who counts as being a speaker are negotiated.” (Alexandra Jaffe, Professor, Department of Linguistics, California State University, USA)
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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New Speakers, Familiar Concepts?
Pages 1-22
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New Gaelic Speakers, New Gaels? Ideologies and Ethnolinguistic Continuity in Contemporary Scotland
Pages 23-44
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‘We’re Not Fully Welsh’: Hierarchies of Belonging and ‘New’ Speakers of Welsh
Pages 45-65
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‘We Don’t Say It Like That’: Language Ownership and (De)Legitimising the New Speaker
Pages 67-90
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Identities and New Speakers of Minority Languages: A Focus on Galician
Pages 91-109
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- New Speakers of Minority Languages
- Book Subtitle
- Linguistic Ideologies and Practices
- Editors
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- Cassie Smith-Christmas
- Noel P. Ó Murchadha
- Michael Hornsby
- Máiréad Moriarty
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-57558-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-57558-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-57557-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 295
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations
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