Minority Languages and Cultural Diversity in Europe: Gaelic and Sorbian PerspectivesThis book engages critically with debates about linguistic continuity and cultural survival in relation to Europe's authochthonous minorities. Focusing on Scotland's Gaels and Lusatia's Sorbs/Wends, it analyses and evaluates competing assumptions, rationales and ideologies which have shaped previous and present language revitalisation initiatives and that continue to pose dilemmas to language planners and politicians in the UK, Germany and beyond. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Political Context | 12 |
Theories | 36 |
Gaelic in Scotland | 61 |
On the Origins and Conceptual Transformation of Gaeldom | 73 |
The Emergence of the Highlander | 79 |
Romantic Scotland | 85 |
Recent Initiatives and Concluding Remarks | 92 |
Linguistic Continuity in Relation to Music and Dance | 222 |
Linguistic Continuity in Relation to NonVerbal Arts | 233 |
Concluding Remarks | 242 |
Ancestry Feelings Perspectives and Insider Knowledge | 265 |
Otherness or Ambiguity? | 271 |
Conclusion | 304 |
Bibliography | 311 |
Scotland and Ireland from a Gaelic perspective | 365 |
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