Cassie Smith-Christmas

Smith-Christmas, Cassie 2022 Review of McLeod (2020): Gaelic in Scotland: Policies, Movements and Ideologies Language Problems and Language Planning 46:3, pp. 349–353 | Review

Dunmore, Stuart S. and Cassie Smith-Christmas 2015 Voicing the ‘other’: Code-switching in discourses of Gaelic language ideologies Language Variation - European Perspectives V: Selected papers from the Seventh International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 7), Trondheim, June 2013, Torgersen, Eivind, Stian Hårstad, Brit Mæhlum and Unn Røyneland (eds.), pp. 87–98 | Article

Since the late 1970s, and particularly the early 1990s, work carried out on language ideologies within the fields of linguistic anthropology and the sociology of language has contributed considerably to an understanding of the interplay between speakers’ language use on the one hand, and their… read more

Smith-Christmas, Cassie 2013 Stance and code-switching: Gaelic-English bilinguals on the Isles of Skye and Harris Language Variation - European Perspectives IV: Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011, Auer, Peter, Javier Caro Reina and Göz Kaufmann (eds.), pp. 229–246 | Article

The concept of ‘stance,’ which is the means by which speakers position themselves in terms of the discourse and interlocutor(s), has gained attention in recent sociolinguistic literature. This paper demonstrates the value of using stance as an explicit analytic construct in examining rapid language… read more

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