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Ghearáin, Helena Ní. 2011. The problematic relationship between institutionalised Irish terminology development and the Gaeltacht speech community: dynamics of acceptance and estrangement. Language Policy 10 (4) : 305–323.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language planning | language policy | minority language | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

Irish

Place, Publisher

Kluwer

Annotation

This study claims that official UK terminology planning may alienate Irish speakers in traditional Gaeltacht regions from language development, subverting their sense of linguistic safety and possession.