Professor Conchúr Ó Giollagáin (University of the Highlands and Islands) is doing a zoom and in-person seminar on -
“Language Dynamics in Society: A New Analytical Framework for Ethnolinguistic Vitality”
Sponsor: University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS)
https://www.wales.ac.uk/cawcs
Date: 27 March 2025, 17:00
Email: cawcs@wales.ac.uk to register
In-Person: In the Centre’s Seminar room
Celtic Seminars calendar:
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Ethnolinguistic vitality is described by Martin Ehala as “a group’s ability to maintain and protect its existence in time as a collective entity with a distinctive identity and language. It involves continuing intergenerational transmission of a group’s language and cultural practices, sustainable demography and active social institutions, social cohesion and emotional attachment to its collective identity. High-vitality groups are capable of collective action to secure the group’s interests in its intergroup setting, while low-vitality groups lack agency and are prone to assimilation.” (Ehala, M. (2015). Ethnolinguistic vitality. In K. Tracy, C. Ilie, & T. Sandel (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of language and social interaction Wiley.)
University of the Highlands and Islands Language Sciences Institute
The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community
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