Abstract
It seems apt to open this volume with a quote from Nancy C. Dorian, whose work on the Gaelic spoken in East Sutherland has not only profoundly shaped scholarship on Scottish Gaelic sociolinguistics as a whole, but has guided research on language shift and maintenance for decades now. In 1987 Dorian wrote:
In the fifteen years during which I was constantly visiting the East Sutherland district of the northeast Scottish mainland or living there, actively studying its distinctive and unique flavor, I was asked many times whether my activities or indeed anyone else’s could make any difference to the ultimate..
In the fifteen years during which I was constantly visiting the East Sutherland district of the northeast Scottish mainland or living there, actively studying its distinctive and unique flavor, I was asked many times whether my activities or indeed anyone else’s could make any difference to the ultimate..
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Gaelic in Contemporary Scotland |
| Subtitle of host publication | The Revitalisation of an Endangered Language |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781474420662 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781474474672 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |