Minority Language Conference (3rd)
Celtic Papers
Published on 15. November 1987
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-0-905028-64-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume contains a selection of papers on various aspects, mainly linguistic, of the present day situation of the Celtic languages of Britain and Ireland. The papers were given at the Third International Conference on Minority Languages, which was held in Galway, Ireland in June 1986. A companion volume, entitled Third International Conference on Minority Languages: General Papers is also published by Multilingual Matters Ltd.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Channel View Publications Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-905028-64-4 (9780905028644)
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Content
1. G.M. Awbery: The Position of the Welsh Language in Wales
2. Beth Thomas: Accounting for Language Maintenance and Shift: Socio-historical Evidence from a Mining Community in Wales
3. William Gillies: Scottish Gaelic - The Present Situation
4. Kenneth MacKinnon: Gender, Occupational and Educational Factors in Gaelic Language-Shift and Regeneration
5. Gabrielle Maguire: Language Revival in an Urban Neo-Gaeltacht
6. Donall P. O Baoill: Phonological Borrowing in Irish and Problems of Orthographical Representation
7. John Harris & Lelia Murtagh: Irish and English in Gaeltacht Primary Schools
8. Michie Akutagawa: A Linguistic Minority under the Protection of its own Ethnic State: A Case Study in an Irish Gaeltacht
2. Beth Thomas: Accounting for Language Maintenance and Shift: Socio-historical Evidence from a Mining Community in Wales
3. William Gillies: Scottish Gaelic - The Present Situation
4. Kenneth MacKinnon: Gender, Occupational and Educational Factors in Gaelic Language-Shift and Regeneration
5. Gabrielle Maguire: Language Revival in an Urban Neo-Gaeltacht
6. Donall P. O Baoill: Phonological Borrowing in Irish and Problems of Orthographical Representation
7. John Harris & Lelia Murtagh: Irish and English in Gaeltacht Primary Schools
8. Michie Akutagawa: A Linguistic Minority under the Protection of its own Ethnic State: A Case Study in an Irish Gaeltacht