Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Chapter 1. New Speakers, Familiar Concepts?Noel.P. Murchadha, Cassie Smith-Christmas, Michael Hornsby and M ir ad Moriarty
Chapter 2. New Gaelic Speakers, New Gaels? Ideologies and ethnolinguistic continuity in contemporary Scotland Stuart Dunmore
Chapter 3. 'We're not fully Welsh': Hierarchies of belonging and 'new' speakers of Welsh Charlotte Selleck
Chapter 4. 'We don't say it like that': Language ownership and (de)legitimising the new speaker Julia Sallabank and Yan Marquis
Chapter 5. Identities and new speakers of minority languages: A focus on Galician Bernadette O'Rourke and Fernando Ramallo
Chapter 6. Double new speakers? Language ideologies of immigrant students in Galicia Nicola Bermingham
Chapter 7. Land, language and migration: World War II evacuees as new speakers of Scottish Gaelic Cassie Smith-Christmas
Chapter 8. The ideological construction of boundaries between speakers and their varieties Tadhg hIfearn in
Chapter 9. New Basques and Code-switching: Purist Tendencies, Social Pressures Hanna Lantto
Chapter 10. New speakers and language in the media: Audience design in Breton and Irish broadcast mediaStefan Moal, Noel.P. Murchadha and John Walsh
Chapter 11. Linguistic innovation among Glasgow Gaelic new speakers Claire Nance
Chapter 12. Verbal lenition among young speakers of Breton: Acquisition and maintenance Holly J. Kennard
Chapter 13. New speakers, potential new speakers, and their experiences and abilities in Scottish GaelicNicola Carty
Chapter 14. New speakers and linguistic practices: Contexts, definitions and issues David Atkinson
Chapter 15. Reflections on New Speaker Research and Future Trajectories Cassie Smith-Christmas and Noel.P. Murchadha
Synopsis
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
Synopsis
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.