Publications

Publication details [#55313]

Lang, A., Lindsay Milligan, Douglas Chalmers and Mike Danson. 2011. BBC ALBA's contributions to Gaelic language planning efforts for reversing language shift. Current Issues in Language Planning 12 (3) : 349–361.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language planning | language shift | language use | television

Language as a subject

Gaelic

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study discusses how the first dedicated Gaelic-medium television channel, BBC ALBA, launched in September 2008 and expanded in late 2010, adds to Gaelic language planning efforts in Scotland for inverting language shift.