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Family Language Policy: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home
Cassie Smith-Christmas
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Description for Family Language Policy: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home
Hardback. Based on an eight-year study of a family on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, this book explores why the children in the family do not often speak Gaelic, despite the adults' best efforts to use the language with them, as well as the children's attendance at a Gaelic immersion school. Num Pages: 144 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: CFDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Based on an eight-year study of a family on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, this book explores why the children in the family do not often speak Gaelic, despite the adults' best efforts to use the language with them, as well as the children's attendance at a Gaelic immersion school.
Based on an eight-year study of a family on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, this book explores why the children in the family do not often speak Gaelic, despite the adults' best efforts to use the language with them, as well as the children's attendance at a Gaelic immersion school.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
137
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137521804
SKU
V9781137521804
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Cassie Smith-Christmas
Cassie Smith-Christmas is a research fellow for Soillse, the inter-university Gaelic language research network. After completing her PhD at the University of Glasgow, Cassie took up her fellowship with the University of Highlands and Islands and has also held a fellowship at the Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Reviews for Family Language Policy: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home
The volume is a pioneer in the study of FLP and its relation to language shift. ... as the first book-length treatment of FLP, this work will be a great resource for both undergraduate and graduate students in language education, sociolinguistics and bilingualism, as well as for researchers interested in minority-language development and maintenance, language socialisation and linguistic ideologies. ... Read more