In this special issue we examine and reflect upon the emergence of “new speakers” in the context of some of Europe's minority languages. The “new speaker” label is used here to …
While in many indigenous minority-language situations traditional native speaker communities are in decline, new speakers are emerging in the context of revitalization …
B O'Rourke, J Walsh - International journal of the sociology of …, 2015 - degruyter.com
While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second- language speakers outside of the Gaeltacht has increased. Of the more than one and half …
Recently, many institutions in non-Anglophone contexts have switched to using English as a medium of instruction in education mostly as a strategic response to globalisation and …
This volume is the first full-length publication to systematically unpack and analyze the linguistic practices and ideologies of" new speakers" specifically in an Irish language …
S Nic Fhlannchadha, TM Hickey - International Journal of Bilingual …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The Irish language is a minority language undergoing the attenuation and accelerated change commonly seen as threatened languages come under increasing pressure from the …
C Nance - Language in Society, 2015 - cambridge.org
This article analyses phonetic variation among young people who have learned a minority language in immersion schooling as part of revitalisation measures. Such speakers are …
Language Education and Applied Linguistics: bridging the two fields provides a starting point for students and researchers in both Language and Education who wish to interpret …
This book examines the changing status and norms of the Croatian language in the context of theories of language planning and the relationship between language and identity. It …