Gaelic in Scotland: Policies, Movements, Ideologies
Wilson McLeod
Sep 2020 · Edinburgh University Press
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In this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland - from the introduction of state education in 1872 up to the present day - Wilson McLeod looks at the policies of government and the work of activists and campaigners who have sought to maintain and promote Gaelic. In addition, he scrutinises the competing ideologies that have driven the decline, marginalisation and subsequent revitalisation of the language. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, at the boundary of history, law, language policy and sociolinguistics, the book draws upon a wide range of sources in both English and Gaelic to consider in detail the development of the language policy regime for Gaelic that was developed between 1975 and 1989. It examines the campaign for the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005, its contents and implementation; and assesses the development and delivery of development and delivery of Gaelic education and media from the late 1980s to the present.
About the author
Wilson McLeod BA (Haverford), JD (Harvard), MSc, PhD (Edinburgh) is Lecturer in Celtic, University of Edinburgh. His research interests focus on language policy, legislation, rights, and planning in Scotland and elsewhere; and on the cultural politics of Irish and Scottish Gaelic literature from the late medieval period to the present day. He is the author of,i Divided Gaels: Gaelic Scotland and Gaelic Ireland, 1200- 1650 Oxford University Press (2004).
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