New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices

Focuses on language ideologies and practices in a range of minority languages and communities
Covers a range of languages and different sociolinguistic situations
Represents the first collection of its kind devoted to New Speaker Studies

Author: Cassie Smith-Christmas
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/14/2017
Pages: 295
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781137575579

About the Author
Cassie Smith-Christmas is a Research Fellow at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests involve the sociolinguistics of minority languages and she is the author of Family Language Policy: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home (Palgrave, 2016).
Noel.P. Ó Murchadha is Assistant Professor in Language Education at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests lie in the sociolinguistics of minority languages, particularly perceptions of linguistic variation in 'small' languages.
Michael Hornsby is Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, and head of its Centre for Celtic Studies. He is the author of Revitalizing Minority Languages: New speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko (Palgrave, 2015).

Máiréad Moriarty is a lecturer in Sociolinguistics and New Media at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests lie in multilingualism and the place for minority languages in domains of popular culture. She is the author of Globalising Language Policy: An Irish Language Perspective (Palgrave, 2015).