Language Death : The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect /
Dorian, Nancy C.
Language Death : The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect / Nancy C. Dorian. - Reprint 2016 - 1 online resource (256 p.) - Anniversary Collection .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. The Sociohistorical Setting of a Cultural Rivalry -- 2. The East Sutherland Fishing, Communities: Development, Linguistic Alignment, Ethnicity, Stigmatization -- 3. East Sutherland in Sociolinguistic Perspective -- 4. Language Change in Dying ESG: Fluent Speakers’ Gaelic and Semi-Speakers’ Gaelic -- Appendix. Questionnaire Surveys of East Sutherland Bilinguals and Monolinguals -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812277852 9781512815580
10.9783/9781512815580 doi
Scottish Gaelic language--Dialects--Scotland--Sutherland.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.
Anthropology. Folklore. Linguistics. Philology and Linguistics.
Language Death : The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect / Nancy C. Dorian. - Reprint 2016 - 1 online resource (256 p.) - Anniversary Collection .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. The Sociohistorical Setting of a Cultural Rivalry -- 2. The East Sutherland Fishing, Communities: Development, Linguistic Alignment, Ethnicity, Stigmatization -- 3. East Sutherland in Sociolinguistic Perspective -- 4. Language Change in Dying ESG: Fluent Speakers’ Gaelic and Semi-Speakers’ Gaelic -- Appendix. Questionnaire Surveys of East Sutherland Bilinguals and Monolinguals -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812277852 9781512815580
10.9783/9781512815580 doi
Scottish Gaelic language--Dialects--Scotland--Sutherland.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative.
Anthropology. Folklore. Linguistics. Philology and Linguistics.