Queering Language Revitalisation: Navigating Identity and Inclusion among Queer Speakers of Minority Languages (Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality)

By: John Walsh and Michael Hornsby and Eva J. Daussà and Renée Pera-Ros and Samuel Parker and Jonathan Morris and Holly R. Cashman

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781009591010
Related ISBNs:: 9781009591027, 9781009591027
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:: 01/30/25
Copyrighted By:: John Walsh, Michael Hornsby, Eva J. Daussà, Renée Pera-Ros, Samuel Parker, Jonathan Morris, and Holly R. Cashman
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
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