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Smith-Christmas, Cassie; NicLeòid, Sìleas L. – Language Policy, 2020
This paper compares the sociolinguistic trajectory of a 'latent' speaker mother to that of a 'new' speaker mother. Drawing on Shandler (TDR 48(1):19-43, 2004), it introduces the term 'post-vernacular FLP' as a means to conceptualise the latent speaker mother's emblematic use of Gaelic with her child as a 'seed' from which language revitalisation…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Indo European Languages, Mothers, Sociolinguistics
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Sebba, Mark – Language Policy, 2019
Where censuses are concerned, politics and ideology are pervasive. The 2011 census in Scotland (a semi-autonomous part of the United Kingdom) was the first to ask a question about Scots, a close relative of English, which is historically the vernacular in many parts of Scotland. While at one time Scots had high status as the national language of…
Descriptors: Political Issues, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Census Figures