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Publication details [#59044]

Armstrong, Timothy Currie. 2014. Naturalism and ideological work: how is family language policy renegotiated as both parents and children learn a threatened minority language? International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 17 (5) : 570–585.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family conversation | language of instruction | language revival | language use | minority language

Language as a subject

Gaelic, Scottish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses how family language use gets renegotiated when both parents and children acquire an endangered minority language (i.c. Scottisch Gaelic), and how this contravenes a prevalent background ideology that conceives language as natural object.