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Minority Languages and Performative Genres: The Case of Irish Language Stand-Up Comedy
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Moriarty, Mairead – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2011
This article will examine the potential for language change from the bottom-up given the new domains in which minority languages are present as a result of the process of language mobility. Drawing on a theoretical notion of sociolinguistic scales, this article aims to discuss how the position of the Irish language has been reconfigured. From this…
Descriptors: Comedy, Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Language Variation