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Globalizing language policy and planning : an Irish language perspective Máiréad Moriarty.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Language and globalizationPublication details: Basingstoke, UK Palgrave Macmillan 2015Description: xi, 151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781137005601 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 412 M 23
LOC classification:
  • P119.32.I73 M67 2015
Other classification:
  • LAN009000 | LAN009050
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Setting the Scene 2. Globalization and Minority Language Planning and Policy3. The Irish Language in Globalization4. Site 1: Media, LPP and Globalization5. Site 2: Comedy, LPP and Globalization6. Site 3: Hip Hop, LPP and Globalization 7. Site 4: Tourism, LPP and Globalization 8. Concluding Remarks: Globalizing LPP.
Summary: "Through an examination of the Irish language context this volume examines the changing value and function of minority languages and what this may mean for future efforts to revive the Irish language. It provides an account of four sites of minority language use including television, comedy, Hip Hop, and tourism. Each of these sites represents domains in which the use of Irish has changed significantly as a consequence of processes of globalization. Through an examination of these four areas, it becomes clear that they offer transgressive spaces for minority language ideologies and use"--
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Books Books School of Celtic Studies Main Library Books 412 M (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available (Standard Loan) 32343

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-144) and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Setting the Scene 2. Globalization and Minority Language Planning and Policy3. The Irish Language in Globalization4. Site 1: Media, LPP and Globalization5. Site 2: Comedy, LPP and Globalization6. Site 3: Hip Hop, LPP and Globalization 7. Site 4: Tourism, LPP and Globalization 8. Concluding Remarks: Globalizing LPP.

"Through an examination of the Irish language context this volume examines the changing value and function of minority languages and what this may mean for future efforts to revive the Irish language. It provides an account of four sites of minority language use including television, comedy, Hip Hop, and tourism. Each of these sites represents domains in which the use of Irish has changed significantly as a consequence of processes of globalization. Through an examination of these four areas, it becomes clear that they offer transgressive spaces for minority language ideologies and use"--

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