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Language Death : The Life Cycle of a Scottish Gaelic Dialect / Nancy C. Dorian.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anniversary CollectionPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1981Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780812277852
  • 9781512815580
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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