Moving beyond Asocial Minority-Language Policy
| Autor: | Iain Caimbeul, Conchúr Ó Giollagáin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) 050301 education Linguistics language.human_language Language shift Scottish Gaelic Threatened species language 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology Ideology 0503 education Minority language Sociolinguistics Language policy media_common |
| Zdroj: | Scottish Affairs. 30:178-211 |
| ISSN: | 2053-888X 0966-0356 |
| DOI: | 10.3366/scot.2021.0360 |
| Popis: | This paper exams how asocial symbolic minority-language policy contributes to the social processes of language shift from the perspective of highly threatened languages, such as Scottish Gaelic. In introducing the concept of language shift through Asocial Minority-Language Policy, we argue that symbolic minority-language policy is detrimental to threatened language minorities in that it is ideologically implicated in language shift when it neglects the societal circumstances of minority-language decline. The prioritisation of the symbolic aspect of language policy also hinders a value-for-money approach to official provision for the minority group. This paper calls for a materialist/functionalist approach to minority-language societal regeneration to counter the social irrelevance of symbolic policy. We suggest policy options for moving beyond the symbolic focus on the minority-language condition. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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