New Speakers of Minority Languages

Chapter 1. New Speakers, Familiar Concepts?Noel.P. Ó Murchadha, Cassie Smith-Christmas, Michael Hornsby and Máiréad Moriarty
Chapter 2. New Gaelic Speakers, New Gaels? Ideologies and ethnolinguistic continuity in contemporary Scotland Stuart Dunmore
Chapter 3. 'We're not fully Welsh': Hierarchies of belonging and 'new' speakers of Welsh Charlotte Selleck
Chapter 4. 'We don't say it like that': Language ownership and (de)legitimising the new speaker Julia Sallabank and Yan Marquis
Chapter 5. Identities and new speakers of minority languages:  A focus on Galician Bernadette O'Rourke and Fernando Ramallo
Chapter 6. Double new speakers? Language ideologies of immigrant students in Galicia Nicola Bermingham
Chapter 7. Land, language and migration: World War II evacuees as new speakers of Scottish Gaelic Cassie Smith-Christmas
Chapter 8. The ideological construction of boundaries between speakers and their varieties Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin
Chapter 9. New Basques andCode-switching: Purist Tendencies, Social Pressures Hanna Lantto
Chapter 10.  New speakers and language in the media: Audience design in Breton and Irish broadcast mediaStefan Moal, Noel.P. Ó Murchadha and John Walsh
Chapter 11. Linguistic innovation among Glasgow Gaelic new speakers Claire Nance
Chapter 12. Verbal lenition among young speakers of Breton: Acquisition and maintenance Holly J. Kennard
Chapter 13. New speakers, potential new speakers, and their experiences and abilities in Scottish GaelicNicola Carty
Chapter 14. New speakers and linguistic practices: Contexts, definitions and issues David Atkinson
Chapter 15. Reflections on New Speaker Research and Future Trajectories Cassie Smith-Christmas and Noel.P. Ó Murchadha

Cassie Smith-Christmas is a Research Fellow at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests involve the sociolinguistics of minority languages and she is the author of Family Language Policy: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home (Palgrave, 2016).Noel.P. Ó Murchadha is Assistant Professor in Language Education at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests lie in the sociolinguistics of minority languages, particularly perceptions of linguistic variation in 'small' languages.Michael Hornsby is Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, and head of its Centre for Celtic Studies. He is the author of Revitalizing Minority Languages: New speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko (Palgrave, 2015).Máiréad Moriarty is a lecturer in Sociolinguistics and New Media at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests lie in multilingualism and the place for minority languages in domains of popular culture. She is the author of Globalising Language Policy: An Irish Language Perspective (Palgrave, 2015).