Publication Date
5-6-2005
Keywords
Scottish Gaelic, Celtic, Scottish-Americans, ethnic revival, minority languages, heritage languages
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Celtic Studies | English Language and Literature | Folklore | History | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Linguistics | Theatre History
Abstract
The Scottish Gaelic learners' movement is a recent development in North America that parallels the mainstream Scottish heritage movement in some ways, but is strongly oppositional to it in others. This essay describes characteristics of this phenomenon by analyzing the range of people involved, their motivations for learning, their goals, the creation of community among learners, the interaction between language learning and discourses of ethnicity, and the interface between Gaelic learners in North America and native Gaelic communities in Scotland and Cape Breton Island.
Recommended Citation
Newton, Michael
(2005)
"This Could Have Been Mine: Scottish Gaelic Learners in North America,"
e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies: Vol. 1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://dc.uwm.edu/ekeltoi/vol1/iss1/1
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