Land, language and migration: World war II evacuees as new speakers of scottish Gaelic

Cassie Smith-Christmas

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-57558-6_7

Land, language and migration: World war II evacuees as new speakers of scottish Gaelic

Cassie Smith-Christmas

University of Limerick

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This chapter explores what it terms a ‘liminal’ category of new speaker: World War II evacuees to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Situated in life narrative interviews, the chapter examines why some evacuees acquired Scottish Gaelic and others did not; and also why some new speakers positioned themselves as ‘learners’ despite being socialised in the language in the home as children. The chapter concludes by tying these discussions to conceptions of the relationship of language to place; and in particular, to conceptions of place as embedded in a sociohistorical trajectory of disenfranchisement.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	New Speakers of Minority Languages
Subtitle of host publication	Linguistic Ideologies and Practices
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Pages	131-149
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137575586
ISBN (Print)	9781137575579
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57558-6_7
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Evacuees
Language ideologies
Language socialisation
Scottish Gaelic

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