Gaelic Language Revitalization: Concepts and Challenges

Collected essays by Dr. Emily McEwan-Fujita.

The chapters in this academic collection cover minority language shift and revitalization, knowledge and representation, identity, ideologies of what it means to be a Gaelic speaker, media discourses of Gaelic language death and revival, the intersection of neoliberalism and minority language revitalization, how Gaelic speakers negotiate meaning in everyday practice, and how the frameworks of Reversing Language Shift (RLS) and “communities of practice” apply to Gaelic revitalization efforts.

6 x 9 in, 396 pages, March 2020.