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Dépendance et attraction dans la poésie de Màiri MacPherson
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2008 Màiri MacPherson’s poetry voices the power of attraction emanating from the Isle of Skye, in the Inner Hebrides. This study means to analyse the elements producing a sense of dependence—nature, the Gaelic language, dispossession and isolation...
Jean Berton
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Persuasive discourse and language planning in Ireland [PDF]
, 2011 Colonial language discourse typically consists of evaluations concerning the respective merits of two or more languages, and the cultures they represent. This can serve as a warrant for imposing a ‘superior’ language.
Gray G, Mazzon G
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Legitimating inaction : differing identity constructions of the Scots language. [PDF]
, 2010 The Scots language plays a key role in the political and cultural landscape of contemporary Scotland. From a discourse-historical perspective, this article explores how language ideologies about the Scots language are realized linguistically in a so ...
Bourdieu, P. +15 more
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The transportation of embedded inversion in world Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The present study uses private correspondence to investigate the use of embedded inversion on both sides of the Atlantic as an illustration of the spread of spoken/conversational features through writing. The paper discusses the use of embedded inversion in Irish English (IrE) and briefly compares its occurrence in other varieties of English ...
Carolina P. Amador‐Moreno
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Irish English Habitual Do Be Revisited
Linguaculture, 2010 This article examines the category of present habitual in Irish English, Irish and Scots Gaelic. The latter two are frequently claimed to have had an influence on the development of the tense and aspect systems of their respective contact varieties of ...
Patricia Ronan
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The Celtic Languages in the Age of Globalisation: Problems and Possibilities [In Russian] [PDF]
, 2015 The article discusses the current state of Celtic languages in the UK and Republic of Ireland, as affected by recent developments in globalization and devolution.
Bissell, Christopher
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Health Promotion Journal of Australia, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT Issue Addressed Migration is globally recognised as a determinant of health. The transition for culturally diverse communities towards adopting diets that align with dietary recommendations of their host country is not without complexities. With over one‐quarter of Australia's population being born overseas, this research explores whether the ...
Hyatt Narsh, Danielle Gallegos
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La Bretagne Linguistique, 1992 This modest survey is the first to be carried out using the methodology of Jules Gilliéron, the Swiss linguist, founder of the Atlas Linguistique de la France and precursor of linguistic geography, in the Gaelic languages, i.e.
Arthur John Hughes
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Gaelic language in public domains [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter explores the relationship between official Gaelic language management initiatives, as articulated through language planning documents and the de facto linguistic practices of Gaelic speakers in Stornoway, the largest settlement in the Western Isles of Scotland, and the last remaining heartland of the language.
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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