Stuart started following the work of 3 people.
Stuart started following the work of Hilary Prichard, University of Pennsylvania, Linguistics.
Stuart followed the research interest: Historical sociolinguistics
Graduate Student, Celtic and Scottish Studies
University of the Highlands and Islands - UHI, Soillse
University of Oxford, Jesus College
Soillse PhD candidate
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Wilson McLeod
Lindsay Paterson |
About
As part of the Soillse initiative (www.soillse.ac.uk) I am currently conducting interview-based qualitative research with adults who received Gaelic-medium education when it first started in Scotland, from the mid-1980s. Relatively little research appears to have been done on the long-term effects of the bilingual classroom on individuals’ relationship to the minority language after education is “over and done with” (after Fishman 2001 'Can Threatened Languages Be Saved?', p.470). My primary research questions are the following: What sets of beliefs about the Gaelic language do former Gaelic-medium students profess? What role, if any, does it play in their lives? And how do these ideological and affective stances impact upon their actual language practices, and upon future prospects for language maintenance?
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