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Publication details [#54943]

McEwan-Fujita, Emily. 2011. Language revitalization discourses as metaculture: Gaelic in Scotland from the 18th to 20th centuries. Language & Communication 31 (1) : 48–62.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language revival | metalanguage | minority language | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Gaelic

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This study explores discourses of Gaelic language revitalization in Scotland as examples of Greg Urban’s ‘metaculture’ in order to obtain a better comprehension of how people pursue sociolinguistic change via minority language revitalization efforts.