Publications

Publication details [#65225]

Hickey, Tina and Siobhán Nic Fhlannchadha. 2018. Minority language ownership and authority: perspectives of native speakers and new speakers. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 21 (1) : 38–53.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language proficiency | language change | language maintenance | minority language | native speaker

Language as a subject

Irish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This inquiry examined the stances and experiences of native and highly skilled L2 speakers (‘novel speakers’) of Irish concerning authenticity, accuracy and ownership of the minority language, and explored commonalities and discrepancies between the two groups.