This project is a dissertation I am going to be working on for the whole 2013/14 academic year. (It is almost finished!)
The finished thing
My hypothesis is that in a language revival, certain changes that have happened during the period before the revival are "locked in" or standardised as part of the language. Often these changes betray influence from the dominant language that revivalists are trying to move away from.
Posts written:
- Theory
- Using poetry as a resource for historical linguistics
- Impact of language contact on language change
- Pathways to Extinction
- Frequently Asked Questions about Ulster Scots
- Guy's knowledge applied to that of Grinevald Craig
- Definition of revival
- What processes are usually part of reviving a language?
- What has been done, by whom, to revive Ulster Scots?
- Case studies: textual analysis
- The Irish Cottier's Death and Burial, by James Orr
- Thocht-Polis by Philip Robinson
- Is Ulster Scots a dying language?
- The Language Revival Efforts of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
- Great Service from the Customar Service
- Delivery after 8 months
Previous plans for the dissertation
I changed the idea a couple of times. First I wanted to describe various methods to research language policy from a linguistic perspective and try each of them for a bit. One of the methods was Critical Discourse Analysis, on which I read a whole book.
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