Chapter 6. What can Gaelic teach us about effective policy through planning?

Strategies in Gaelic language planning

Lindsay Milligan | Glasgow Caledonian University

Douglas Chalmers | Glasgow Caledonian University

Hugh O'Donnell | Glasgow Caledonian University

This chapter presents focuses on the area of language policy in business. It discusses the relevance and effectiveness of strategies aiming toward bilingual Gaelic/English practices in workplace environments that address the need for capacity to work in two languages. The strategies under consideration are: translation services, as well as training & development. This chapter concludes with general recommendations for how the example of strategies used in Gaelic language policies can inform the development of policies in other areas.

Published online: 17 December 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/mdm.2.06mil

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2016. In The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language, ► pp. 616 ff.

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