New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland

Heritage, Motivation and Identity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Stuart S. Dunmore, University of Edinburgh) Dunmore, Stuart S. (Postdoctoral Fellow, Stuart S Dunmore

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What are the main similarities between new cohorts of Gaelic speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland, and what key differences distinguish them? In Scotland, public policy to support and maintain the language has increased substantially in the past 40 years. In addition to Scotland's 57,602 speakers, however, Gaelic has persisted in Nova Scotia since the 18th century and a third of Nova Scotians are descended from families who spoke the language historically. As a response to policymakers' language planning priorities in both polities and drawing on three years of ethnographic research in Scotland and Nova Scotia, this book presents a comparative analysis of new speaker motivations, identities and linguistic ideologies. An innovative approach to examining bilingual discourses is employed to demonstrate key distinctions and commonalities among new Gaelic speakers, with a view to informing future policy to generate greater numbers of proficient speakers on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-31
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt436 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHistories of the Scottish Atlantic
Antal sidor192
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474491624

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List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgements1. Gaelic and Gaels in Scotland and Nova Scotia: A Historical and Contemporary Account2. Language, Ethnicity and Identities: A Conceptual Frame3. Gaelic Language Ideologies in Scotland and Nova Scotia: An Ethnographic Introduction to the Research Sites4. New Gaelic Speakers’ Language Acquisition and Use5. Contrasting Gaelic Identities: Heritage, Language Ideologies and Motivation6. Quantitative Perspectives on New Gaelic Speakerhood in Scotland and Nova Scotia7. New Worlds: Transatlantic Gaeldom and Twenty-first-century Linguistic PracticeBibliographyIndex

This book shines critical light on the understudied but statistically dominant category of new learners in Nova Scotia. Stuart Dunmore is making exciting inroads in the emergent field of North American Gaelic studies. He is a master of his topic, and his book is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the place of the language and the motivations of its speakers in Atlantic Canada today.