Publications
Publication details [#51404]
Smith-Christmas, Cassandra and Dick Smakman. 2009. Gaelic on the Isle of Skye: older speakers' identity in a language-shift situation. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2009 (200) : 27–47. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper proposes identity negotiation and the age and identity correlation possibility as perpetuating factors in the Gaelic to English language shift on the Scottish Isle of Skye.