2. Language in Society: 1800 to the Modern Day

MacLeod, Michelle

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“…A report on the Gaelic language data of the 2011 Census was commissioned by the NRS and produced by Fiona O'Hanlon and Lindsay Paterson (2015a,b). The analysis by age cohorts of the national data corroborates the findings of Lamb (2008), K. MacLeod (2017), MacKinnon (2010aMacKinnon ( , 2011c, Mac an Tàilleir (2010) and of the IGRP concerning the decline in Gaelic ability among the younger age cohorts, indicating the typical scenario of language shift: In 2011, the incidence of people [in Scotland] who were able to speak Gaelic was below the national average (1.1 per cent) up to age 7, and then remained above it (except at age 11) until age 15.…”

Section: A Brief Overview Of Contemporary Gaelic Census Data Analysissupporting

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The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community: a comprehensive sociolinguistic survey of Scottish Gaelic

Ó Giollagáin,

Camshron,

Moireach

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Section: A Brief Overview Of Contemporary Gaelic Census Data Analysissupporting

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The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community: a comprehensive sociolinguistic survey of Scottish Gaelic

Ó Giollagáin,

Camshron,

Moireach

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“…In many respects, the conclusions presented here may come as little surprise to researchers who have investigated the delivery and impact of GME since the late 1980s (cf. Fraser 1989;Oliver 2002Oliver , 2006O'Hanlon 2012;MacLeod 2017). Notably, the majority of research participants in the present study claimed informally not to expect many of their old classmates to continue to speak the language in the present day.…”

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“…In the last decade, a wealth of research employing ethnographic perspectives has been brought to bear on Gaelic language use in the domains of home (Smith-Christmas 2011, 2013, 2021, community (Falzett 2010(Falzett , 2015McEwan-Fujita 2010a, b; and school (MacLeod 2017;NicLeòid 2013;O'Hanlon 2012;. A generation earlier, on the basis of extensive fieldwork undertaken East Sutherland, Dorian's (1981: 76) seminal study noted that intergenerational transmission of Gaelic in many families was critically disrupted in the aftermath of the First World War, as Highland and Island communities struggled to recover from proportionally overwhelming losses of young men.…”

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“…For the purposes of the present research, I summarise below findings from two recent sociolinguistic ethnographies of Gaelic language transmission and immersion education (MacLeod 2017 and, juxtaposing these studies' key conclusions with those of Dorian's (1981) formative East Sutherland study. MacLeod's (2017) ethnography of sociolinguistically contrasting communities in Edinburgh and Barra stressed that only a very small number of young families in either of these locations now use Gaelic with regularity and commitment in the home domain.…”

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“…The wider study from which the present analysis is drawn thus builds on a significant body of ethnographic research on Gaelic in the Scottish education system (MacKinnon 1977;Dorian 1981Dorian , 2011Oliver 2002Oliver , 2006O'Hanlon 2012;MacLeod 2017). Its immediate justification is to address one part of a wider lacuna within international research, concerning long-term outcomes of immersion education in minoritised language settings (although see also Murtagh 2008;Hodges 2009;Woolard 2011).…”

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Oracy and Ideology in Contemporary Gaelic: Conceptions of Fluency and its Perceived Decline Subsequent to Immersion Schooling

Dunmore

2022

Journal of Celtic Linguistics

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Notwithstanding the considerable extent of intergenerational disruption within contemporary Gaelic communities in Scotland, the development of national language policy has tended to focus on Gaelic-medium, immersion education (GME) as a means of revitalising the language. Gaelic education is prioritised alongside increasing language use and promoting a positive image of the language in the most recent iteration of the National Gaelic Language Plan (2018–23) as was the case in the two previous Plans (Bòrd na Gàidhlig 2007, 2012). Yet fine-grained and mixed methodological research conducted by the author found extensive evidence that Gaelic tends not to be used to a substantial degree by former GME students, years after their formal schooling is completed. In this article I focus on previously unpublished qualitative data which illustrate understandings of oracy and fluency among interview participants (N=46) and their perceptions of language attrition since attending immersion education in childhood. As the analysis of interview material shows, such demonstrable attrition of Gaelic oracy years after immersion provides clear challenges to current language planning priorities in Scotland.

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2020

Multilingualism and Politics

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2. Language in Society: 1800 to the Modern Day

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The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community: a comprehensive sociolinguistic survey of Scottish Gaelic

The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community: a comprehensive sociolinguistic survey of Scottish Gaelic

Oracy and Ideology in Contemporary Gaelic: Conceptions of Fluency and its Perceived Decline Subsequent to Immersion Schooling

Multilingualism from a Monolingual Habitus: The View from Scotland

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