How to Turn the Tide: the Policy Implications Emergent from Comparing a 'Post-Vernacular FLP' to a 'Pro-Gaelic FLP'

Autor/inn/en	Smith-Christmas, Cassie; NicLeòid, Sìleas L.
Titel	How to Turn the Tide: the Policy Implications Emergent from Comparing a 'Post-Vernacular FLP' to a 'Pro-Gaelic FLP'
Quelle	In: Language Policy, 19 (2020) 4, S.575-593 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Smith-Christmas, Cassie) ORCID (NicLeòid, Sìleas L.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1568-4555
DOI	10.1007/s10993-019-09541-0
Schlagwörter	Language Planning; Indo European Languages; Mothers; Sociolinguistics; Parent Child Relationship; Language Usage; Barriers; Mother Attitudes; Second Language Learning; Language Variation; Language Maintenance; Comparative Analysis; Language Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachwechsel; Indoeuropäisch; Mother; Mutter; Soziolinguistik; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Sprachgebrauch; Mutterliebe; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachenvielfalt; Sprachpflege; Sprachverhalten
Abstract	This paper compares the sociolinguistic trajectory of a 'latent' speaker mother to that of a 'new' speaker mother. Drawing on Shandler (TDR 48(1):19-43, 2004), it introduces the term 'post-vernacular FLP' as a means to conceptualise the latent speaker mother's emblematic use of Gaelic with her child as a 'seed' from which language revitalisation can be cultivated, rather than a terminus. The paper discusses how the latent speaker mother's current ideological landscape in many ways encapsulates the tepidity of the older generation's ideologies. This contrasts to the new speaker mother, who has undergone the ideological transformation necessary to take an activist stance towards the language and implement a 'pro-Gaelic' FLP. The paper then considers the linguistic confidence barrier as described by both mothers, particularly in terms of using child-directed speech in Gaelic, and shows how the new speaker mother overcame this particular barrier. The paper concludes by discussing the policy implications of this analysis, and poses the crucial question: what specific on-the-ground measures can be taken to transform post-vernacular FLPs to pro-Gaelic FLPs? (As Provided).
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