Queering language revitalisation: navigating identity and inclusion among queer speakers of minority languages

This Element aims to deepen our understanding of how the fields of multilingualism, second language acquisition and minority language revitalisation have largely overlooked the question of queer sexual identities among speakers of the languages under study. Based on case studies of four languages ex...

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Main Author: Walsh, John 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2025
Series:Cambridge elements
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009591034?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009591034?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009591034?locatt=mode:legacy
Summary:This Element aims to deepen our understanding of how the fields of multilingualism, second language acquisition and minority language revitalisation have largely overlooked the question of queer sexual identities among speakers of the languages under study. Based on case studies of four languages experiencing differing degrees of minoritisation - Irish, Breton, Catalan and Welsh - it investigates how queer people navigate belonging within the binary of speakers/non-speakers of minoritised languages while also maintaining their queer identities. Furthermore, it analyses how minoritised languages are dealing linguistically with the growing need for 'gender-fair' or 'gender-neutral' language. The marginalisation of queer subjects in these strands of linguistics can be traced to the historical dominance of the Fishmanian model of 'Reversing Language Shift' (RLS), which assumed the importance of the deeply heteronormative model of 'intergenerational transmission' of language as fundamental to language revitalisation contexts
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (78 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009591034
DOI:10.1017/9781009591034

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