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Publication details [#53458]

McEwan-Fujita, Emily. 2010. Ideology, affect, and socialization in language shift and revitalization: The experiences of adults learning Gaelic in the Western Isles of Scotland. Language in Society 39 (1) : 27–64.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult | affect | ideology | language shift | socialization

Language as a subject

English | Gaelic

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study discusses how the pleached role of language ideologies and affect in language shift and revitalization can be grasped by a language socialization approach to local, micro-level interaction between adult learners of Scottish Gaelic and fluent Gaelic-English bilinguals.