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Book Gaelic in Scottish Education and Life

Download or read book Gaelic in Scottish Education and Life written by John Lorne Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gaelic in Scottish Education and Life  Past  Present and Future

Download or read book Gaelic in Scottish Education and Life Past Present and Future written by John Lorne CAMPBELL (of Canna.) and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland

Download or read book Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland written by Robert Anderson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the origins and evolution of the main institutions of Scottish education, bringing together a range of scholars, each an expert on his or her own period, and with interests including - but also ranging beyond - the history of educat

Book The Last of the Celts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marcus Tanner
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300115352
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book The Last of the Celts written by Marcus Tanner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Tanner has journeyed throughout the Celtic world--from the wilds of Northwest Scotland to the Isle of Man, and from Boston to Cape Breton--seeking the Celtic past and what remains of authentic culture.

Book Edinburgh History of the Scots Language

Download or read book Edinburgh History of the Scots Language written by Jones Charles Jones and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full scale attempt to record the diachronic development of this important English language variety and includes extensive essays by some of the foremost international scholars of the Scots language. The book attempts to provide a detailed and technical description of the syntax, phonology, morphology and vocabulary of the language in two main periods: the beginnings to 1700 and from 1700 to the present day. The language's geographical variation both in the past and at the present time are fully documented and the sociolinguistic forces which lie behind linguistic innovation and its transmission provide a principal theme running through the book.WINNER of the Saltire society/National Library of Scotland Scottish Research Book of the Year Award

Book Multilingualism

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Edwards
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2002-11
  • ISBN : 1134810717
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Multilingualism written by John Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By looking at the effect of language difference, Edwards examines the interaction of language with nationalism, politics, history, identity and education. This book unpicks this complexity and creates a multidisciplinary overview.

Book Prizing Scottish Literature

Download or read book Prizing Scottish Literature written by Stevie Marsden and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider mechanisms of how literary prize culture functions in the UK today.

Book The Irish Language  RLE Linguistics E  Indo European Linguistics

Download or read book The Irish Language RLE Linguistics E Indo European Linguistics written by John Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In compiling this bibliography, the main purpose was to assemble references to published material of a sociolinguistic nature concerning the Irish language. The intent was not to cover publications treating language per se, but rather to consider those dealing with language in its social context. Represented here are articles, chapters, books and pamphlets bearing upon social, historical, psychological and educational aspects of Irish – including the decline of the language, the restoration effort, the relationship of language to nationality and religion, and studies of important figures in the language movement.

Book Language Death

Download or read book Language Death written by Nancy C. Dorian and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Book The Scottish Educational Journal

Download or read book The Scottish Educational Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Uneasy Subjects

Download or read book Uneasy Subjects written by Silke Stroh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish and “Celtic fringe” postcolonialism has caused much controversy and unease in literary studies. Can the non-English territories and peoples of the British Isles, faced with centuries of English hegemony, be meaningfully compared to former overseas colonies? This book is the first comprehensive study of this topic which offers an in-depth study of Gaelic literature. It investigates the complex interplay between Celticity, Gaeldom, Scottish and British national identity, and international colonial and postcolonial discourse. It situates post/colonial elements in Gaelic poetry within a wider context, showing how they intersect with socio-historical and political issues, anglophone literature and the media. Highlighting the centrality of Celticity as an archetypal construct in colonial discourses ancient and modern, this volume traces post/colonial themes and strategies in Gaelic poetry from the Middle Ages to the present. Central themes include the uneasy position of Gaels as subjects of the Scottish or British state, and as both intra-British colonised and overseas colonisers. Aiming to promote interdisciplinary dialogue, it is of interest for scholars and students of Scottish Studies, Gaelic and English literature, and international Postcolonial Studies.

Book Lochlann

Download or read book Lochlann written by Alf Sommerfelt and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Emigrant s Guide to North America

Download or read book The Emigrant s Guide to North America written by Robert MacDougall and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert MacDougall's The Emigrant's Guide to North America, written in Gaelic and published in 1841, attempts to give an accurate picture of Canada. Set up to provide a practical background for Highland Scots coming to Canada, it includes all the information MacDougall feels will be necessary -- including preparation for the trip. The book also serves as a type of travelogue, describing particular sights and sounds found on the way to his ultimate destination, Goderich, in the Huron Tract. This translated work retains the unmistakable speech patterns, images and rhymes of the Gaelic language. Robert MacDougall's quirky, opinionated personality speaks clearly, seeking to dispel some myths about Canada of the time by telling the "truth." This book deserves to be read by a wide audience. "I don't know where else you could find such riches of information and observation, so compactly presented, about this exhilirating and trying time in our past. Or get so fresh a sense of a real man of that time, with his energy and sweeping opinions and flourishing rhetoric. The translator and the editor have done a splendid job." -- Alice Munro>

Book The Revival of Scottish Gaelic Through Education

Download or read book The Revival of Scottish Gaelic Through Education written by Michael McIntyre and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 4 centuries, the Gaelic language has suffered continual decline, occasioned in part by active campaigns to eradicate it and in part by a more-or-less voluntary shift to English. Gaelic speakers, experiencing the marginalization of their culture, were shunted to the sidelines of the English-speaking imperium, except as they abandoned their native tongue and assimilated to the English-speaking hegemony, hastening the erosion of their own language and culture. Recent years, however, have seen an effort to revive the language that is unprecedented in Scottish Gaelic history, and perhaps in the history of language revival. In concordance with a worldwide concern about the demise of endangered languages, and bolstered by a newly established Scottish government (the first since the 18th century when it was dissolved and merged with the English parliament in the formation of the United Kingdom), "the Gaelic" is experiencing robust growth in opportunities for learning and, as its adherents hope, for its maintenance and revival. The revival efforts spread out across many domains, such as media and local and national governments. However, there is a particularly strong concentration of effort in formal and nonformal education as government funding, official sanction, and a multitude of nongovernmental organizations contribute to the efforts to build a foundation for a Gaelic future. Half the world's languages, subject to the erosive power of a globalized society, are expected to fade away by the end of the 21st century. This wave of language extinctions would constitute a massive loss to humanity's cultural legacy. This work enumerates the rationales for maintaining heritage languages and examines one particular exemplary campaign to reverse the slide to language death. The current establishing of a foundation for the future of Scottish Gaelic in the educational system may provide a model for other submerged groups who also seek to avert the eradication of their languages and cultures. This work seeks to answer the following questions: How can a minority group maintain its culture in the face of an increasingly globalized society? Can such a minority group even survive? What is the rationale for saving minority and endangered languages from the threat of language death? What does a concerted campaign of language education look like that is centered around the passing of a language and culture to the next generation? This is an important book for all scholars and other individuals who are interested in the Gaelic and other Celtic languages; endangered-language maintenance, survival, and revival; and issues surrounding indigenous and language-minority populations.

Book Gaelic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kenneth MacKinnon
  • Publisher : Hyperion Books
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780854110476
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Gaelic written by Kenneth MacKinnon and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An historical and social study of Gaelic which stresses the language's importance for Scotland and its future.

Book Gaelic Identities

Download or read book Gaelic Identities written by Gordon McCoy and published by Dufour Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scotland before the Industrial Revolution

Download or read book Scotland before the Industrial Revolution written by Ian D. Whyte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This splendid portrait of medieval and early modern Scotland through to the Union and its aftermath has no current rival in chronological range, thematic scope and richness of detail. Ian Whyte pays due attention to the wide regional variations within Scotland itself and to the distinctive elements of her economy and society; but he also highlights the many parallels between the Scottish experience and that of her neighbours, especially England. The result sets the development of Scotland within its British context and beyond, in a book that will interest and delight far more than Scottish specialists alone.