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Publication details [#51510]

Moriarty, Mairead. 2009. Normalising language through television: the case of the Irish language television channel, TG4 . Journal of multicultural discourses 4 (2) : 137–149.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language attitude | language revival | minority language | sociolinguistics | television

Language as a subject

Irish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Using the example of the Irish language television channel TG4, this paper argues that mediatizing minority languages supports language revitalisation, especially from the perspective of encouraging linguistic normalisation, through language attitude and practice change.