Publications

Publication details [#51690]

French, Brigittine M. 2009. Linguistic science and nationalist revolution: Expert knowledge and the making of sameness in pre-independence Ireland. Language in Society 38 (5) : 607–625.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ideology | language use | nationalism | standard1 vs. dialect2 | standardization

Language as a subject

Irish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article examines the linguistic ideological work entailed in the analyses of Irish by This study argues that during the armed, early 20th century Irish independence struggle, MacNeill, cofounder of the Gaelic League, supported the heterogeneous variation of Irish spoken discourse even as he tried to consolidate Irish national identity via sameness claims.