This Could Have Been Mine: Scottish Gaelic Learners in North America

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,...

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Main Author: Newton, Michael
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: UWM Digital Commons 2005
Subjects:
Scottish Gaelic
Celtic
Scottish-Americans
ethnic revival
minority languages
heritage languages
Celtic Studies
English Language and Literature
Folklore
History
History of Art
Architecture
and Archaeology
Linguistics
Theatre History
Breton Island
Online Access:https://dc.uwm.edu/ekeltoi/vol1/iss1/1
https://dc.uwm.edu/context/ekeltoi/article/1000/viewcontent/ekeltoi_newton_1_1.pdf
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Summary: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.

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